''Dust and Dreams'' is the eleventh studio album by Camel. Released in 1991 after a seven-year hiatus during which

Andrew Latimer Andrew Latimer (born 17 May 1949) is an English musician and composer. He is a founding member of the progressive rock band Camel and the only member who has been with them since their formation in 1971. Best known as a guitarist and singer, La ...

and Susan Hoover moved from England to California to set up their own Camel Productions label, the album was inspired by John Steinbeck's ''

The Grapes of Wrath ''The Grapes of Wrath'' is an American realist novel written by John Steinbeck and published in 1939. The book won the National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize for fiction, and it was cited prominently when Steinbeck was awarded the Nobel Priz ...

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Track listings

All songs were written by

, except where noted. #"Dust Bowl" – 1:54 #"Go West" – 3:42 #"Dusted Out" – 1:35 #"Mother Road" – 4:15 #"Needles" – 2:34 #"Rose of Sharon" (Susan Hoover, Latimer) – 4:48 #"Milk n' Honey" – 3:30 #"End of the Line" (Hoover, Latimer) – 6:52 #"Storm Clouds" – 2:06 #"Cotton Camp" – 2:55 #"Broken Banks" – 0:34 #"Sheet Rain" – 2:14 #"Whispers" – 0:52 #"Little Rivers and Little Rose" – 1:56 #"Hopeless Anger" – 4:57 #"Whispers in the Rain" – 2:56

Personnel

* Andy Latimer – Guitar, Flute, Keyboards, Vocals, Producer, Engineer *

Colin Bass Colin Bass (born 4 May 1951) is an English musician, singer, songwriter and record producer. Since 1979, he has been a member of the British progressive rock band Camel, who, after a ten-year hiatus due to the ill health of bandleader Andrew L ...

– Bass *

Ton Scherpenzeel Ton Scherpenzeel (born 6 August 1952) is a Dutch keyboardist, composer, lyricist, and founding member of progressive rock band Kayak, together with Pim Koopman and Max Werner whom he met whilst at the Hilversum Muziek Lyceum (Hilversum College o ...

– Keyboards * Paul Burgess – Drums

Additional musicians

* Don Harriss – Keyboards * Christopher Bock – Drums * Kim Venaas – Harmonica (5,7,12),

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(16) *

David Paton David Paton (; born 29 October 1949) is a Scottish bassist, guitarist and singer. He first achieved success in the mid-1970s as lead vocalist and bassist of Pilot, who scored hits with " Magic", "January", "Just a Smile" and "Call Me Round" b ...

– Vocal (6) *

Mae McKenna Jamie Woon (born 29 March 1983) is a British singer, songwriter, and record producer signed to PMR Records. He gained widespread acclaim in 2010 for his single " Night Air", which was co-produced by Burial, following his previous independent ...

– Vocal (6) * John Burton –

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(12) * James SK Wān – bamboo flute * Neil Panton –

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(13)

Other credits

*Produced & engineered by Andy Latimer *Mixed by Bruce Lampcov at Air Studios,

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*Artwork by Emily Mura-Smith

Charts

References

* The Rough Guide to Rock. (2003). United Kingdom: Rough Guides. p.165

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Dust And Dreams (Album) 1991 albums Camel (band) albums Concept albums The Grapes of Wrath Music based on novels Adaptations of works by John Steinbeck