''Voices'' is the fourth studio album by
Murray Head
Murray Seafield St George Head (born 5 March 1946) is an English actor and singer. Head has appeared in a number of films, including a starring role as the character Bob Elkin in the Oscar-nominated 1971 film ''Sunday Bloody Sunday''. As a mus ...
. It was released in 1981. Many musicians from Fairport Convention are featured here, Richard Thompson, Simon Nicol, Dave Pegg and Dave Mattacks. Cat Stevens' guitarist Alun Davies is also playing on the album, as well as Bob Weston and Jeff Beck.
Track listing
All tracks composed by Murray Head
#"Last Daze of an Empire" - 4:17
#"Affair Across a Crowded Room" - 4:37
#"Hey Lady" - 3:05
#"On your Own Again" - 3:45
#"She's Doing Time on the Line" - 4:00
#"Chance Encounter" - 3:37
#"Children Only Play (Do You Remember?)" - 4:46
#"Old Soho" - 4:05
#"A Tree" - 4:01
#"Going Home" - 3:38
#"Los Angeles" - 4:50
#"How Many Ways" - 4:24
#"Never Even Thought" - 5:31
Personnel
*Murray Head - vocals, acoustic guitar
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Jeff Beck
Geoffrey Arnold Beck (born 24 June 1944) is an English rock guitarist. He rose to prominence with the Yardbirds and after fronted the Jeff Beck Group and Beck, Bogert & Appice. In 1975, he switched to a mainly instrumental style, with a focus ...
- guitar
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Richard Thompson - guitar
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Simon Nicol
Simon John Breckenridge Nicol (born 13 October 1950) is an English guitarist, singer, multi-instrumentalist and record producer. He was a founding member of British folk rock group Fairport Convention and is the only founding member still in the ...
- guitar
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Geoffrey Richardson - acoustic guitar
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Bob Weston
Bob Weston (born 1965) is an American musician, producer, recording engineer, and record mastering engineer. Critic Jason AnkenyAnkeny, Jason. " Bob Weston: Overview from Allmusic.com declares that "Weston's name and fingerprints are all over th ...
- acoustic guitar
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Alun Davies - acoustic guitar, background vocals, vibraphone
*Paul Whittaker - guitar
*Gary Taylor - acoustic guitar, bass guitar
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Dave Pegg
Dave Pegg (born 2 November 1947) is an English multi-instrumentalist and record producer, primarily a bass guitarist. He is the longest-serving member of the British folk rock band Fairport Convention and has been bassist with a number of folk ...
- bass guitar, mandolin
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Pat Donaldson
Fotheringay was a short-lived British folk rock group, formed in 1970 by singer-songwriter and musician Sandy Denny on her departure from Fairport Convention. The band drew its name from her 1968 composition "Fotheringay" about Fotheringhay C ...
- bass guitar
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Simon Jeffes
Simon Harry Piers Jeffes (19 February 1949 – 11 December 1997) was an English classically trained guitarist, composer and arranger. He formed, and was the primary performer of, the Penguin Cafe Orchestra. He was the composer of the ballet ''Sti ...
- bass guitar
*Bruce Lynch - double bass
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Rupert Hine
Rupert Neville Hine (21 September 1947 – 4 June 2020) was an English musician, songwriter and record producer. He produced albums for artists including Rush, Kevin Ayers, Tina Turner, Howard Jones, Saga, the Fixx, Bob Geldof, Thompson Twins ...
- harmonica, piano
*Peter Veitch - organ, Roland synthesizer, violin, accordion, Fender Rhodes, barrel organ
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Jeff Allen - drums
*Stephanie Spring - drums
*Steve Fletcher - drums, percussion, keyboards, background vocals
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Dave Mattacks
David James Mattacks (born 13 March 1948) is an English rock and folk drummer. Best known for his work with Fairport Convention, Mattacks has also worked both as a session musician and as a performing artist. Apart from playing the drums, he i ...
- drums, percussion
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Trevor Morais
Trevor Morais (born 10 October 1944) is an English drummer who has been a member of several notable groups such as Faron's Flamingos, Rory Storm and The Hurricanes, The Peddlers, Quantum Jump and the Elkie Brooks backing band. He is also a ses ...
- drums
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- drums
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Morris Pert
Morris David Brough Pert (8 September 1947 – 27 April 2010) was a Scottish composer, drummer/percussionist, and pianist who composed in the fields of both contemporary classical and jazz-rock music. His compositions include three symphonies, p ...
- percussion
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Dyan Birch
Dyan Joan Birch (25 January 1949 – 10 October 2020) was an English singer.
Born in Liverpool, Birch worked as a teenager in Brian Epstein's NEMS record shop in the city. In 1969 she and her friends formed the band Arrival, and moved to London. ...
- vocals
*Anthony Stewart Head - choir, chorus
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Paul Samwell-Smith
Paul Granville Samwell-Smith (born Paul Smith, 8 May 1943, in Richmond, Surrey, England) is an English musician and record producer. He was a founding member and the bassist of the 1960s English rock band the Yardbirds, which launched leading g ...
- vibraphone
*Christopher Warren-Green - violin, cello
*Nigel Warren-Green - violin, cello
*Norman Zulu - choir, chorus
*Clifton Davis - choir, chorus
*Sue Lynch - voices
*Chris Mercer - saxophone
*Nicola Kerr - girls voice on "Children Only Play (Do You Remember?)"
;Technical
*Mike Bobak, Robert Ash - engineer
*Michael Ross - design, photography
References
External links
''Voices''at the official Murray Head site.
Murray Head albums
1981 albums
Albums produced by Paul Samwell-Smith
Albums recorded at Morgan Sound Studios
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