Paul Carrack - Good Feeling
by Fiona Hutchings
published: 12 / 9 / 2012
Label:
Carrack-UK
Format: CD
intro
Soul-inspired latest solo album from former Ace and Mike and the Mechanics front man and Roxy Music keyboardist, Paul Carrack
Grammy award winner Paul Carrack has had one hell of a career. From Ace to a stint with Roxy Music, from Squeeze to Mike and the Mechanics, with collaborations a plenty and solo records too, the man has been busy. This self produced album promises some feel good tunes, and that classic Carrack blue eyed soul and opener 'Good Feelin' About It' is breezy and upbeat. ‘Marmalade Moon,’ co-written with Squeeze’s Chris Difford, puts me in mind of the Commitments with storytelling, horns and organs, while 'Nothing Without You' adds some funk to the mix. ‘I Can Hear Ray,’ is a collaboration with Charlie Dore and name checks Ray Charles. It is a slower track and a bit of a grower. On first listen it seems a little too earnest and self conscious, but in reality it is just gentle and mellow. 'If I Should Fall Behind' is another peaceful track. 'From Now On' is a new version of Nick Lowe’s original. 'I Don't Wanna Lose Your Love' is the weakest track, a little too easy listening by numbers for me, and 'When My Little Girl Is Smiling' is as sentimental as the title suggests. This soul inspired album is more proof, as if it were needed, of Mr Carrack’s talent as both a performer and producer. His distinctive voice is losing nothing of it's warmth or quality forty years into an accomplished and varied career. Carrack has nothing to prove ,and this album has a real sense of a man doing something he loves.
Track Listing:-
1 Good Feelin' About It2 Marmalade Moon
3 Nothing Without You
4 I Can Hear Ray
5 Long Ago
6 Make It Right
7 If I Should Fall Behind
8 From Now On
9 I Don't Wanna Lose Your Love
10 Time to Move On
11 When My Little Girl Is Smiling
12 A Child Is Born
Band Links:-
http://www.paulcarrack.net/https://www.facebook.com/carrack.net
https://twitter.com/pcarrack
https://www.youtube.com/user/PaulCarrackOfficial
https://plus.google.com/108204097542826850533
https://www.instagram.com/paulcarrackofficial/
Have a Listen:-
interviews |
|
Interview (2021) |
|
| Singer-songwriter and keyboardist Paul Carrack talks to Eoghan Lyng about working with Eric Clapton, Squeeze and Mike + The Mechanics and his impressive new solo album, 'One On One'. |
soundcloud
most viewed articles
current edition
Screamin' Cheetah Wheelies - Sala Apolo, Barcelona, 29/11/2023 and La Paqui, Madrid, 30/11/2023Anthony Phillips - Interview
Difford and Tilbrook - Difford and Tilbrook
Rain Parade - Interview
Oldfield Youth Club - Interview
Autumn 1904 - Interview
Shaw's Trailer Park - Interview
Cafe No. 9, Sheffield and Grass Roots Venues - Comment
Pete Berwick - ‘Too Wild to Tame’: The story of the Boyzz:
Chris Hludzik - Vinyl Stories
most viewed reviews
current edition
Marika Hackman - Big SighSerious Sam Barrett - A Drop of the Morning Dew
Rod Stewart and Jools Holland - Swing Fever
Ian M Bailey - We Live in Strange Times
Loves - True Love: The Most of The Loves
Paul McCartney and Wings - Band on the Run
Autumn 1904 - Tales of Innocence
Roberta Flack - Lost Takes
Banter - Heroes
Posey Hill - No Clear Place to Fall
Pennyblackmusic Regular Contributors
Adrian Janes
Amanda J. Window
Andrew Twambley
Anthony Dhanendran
Benjamin Howarth
Cila Warncke
Daniel Cressey
Darren Aston
Dastardly
Dave Goodwin
Denzil Watson
Dominic B. Simpson
Eoghan Lyng
Fiona Hutchings
Harry Sherriff
Helen Tipping
Jamie Rowland
John Clarkson
Julie Cruickshank
Kimberly Bright
Lisa Torem
Maarten Schiethart