Eddi Reader (album)

Infobox Album | Name = Eddi Reader
Type = Album
Artist = Eddi Reader


Released = Flagicon|United Kingdom June 20 1994
Flagicon|Japan July 25 1994
Flagicon|USA September 13 1994
Recorded = By Jon Ingoldsby at El Mirador, Ojai, California
Genre = Pop
Length = 49:43
Label = Eddi Reader
Producer = Greg Penny
Reviews = * Allmusic Rating|4.5|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:gxk9ikcjbb79 link]
Last album = Mirmama (1992)
This album = Eddi Reader (1994)
Next album = Candyfloss and Medicine (1996)

Eddi Reader is the second studio album by Eddi Reader released in the UK on June 20, 1994.

The album was recorded in America with producer Greg Penny (k d lang’s producer on "Ingenue"), and was the first to feature songs written and co-written with future regular cohort Boo Hewerdine. It also featured four songs written by ex Fairground Attraction member Mark Nevin.

With major label backing and extensive radio play for the single "Patience of Angels" it is Reader's most successful chart album to date, going top 5 in the UK in its first week of release.

On the strength of this success, Reader received Best British Female at the BRIT Awards the following year.

Two additional singles were released: "Joke (I’m Laughing)" and "Dear John". The latter was co-written by Kirsty MacColl and originally intended for her 1993 album "Titanic Days". However MacColl was going through a divorce at the time and felt the song was too painful to release and offered the track to Reader. It would later resurface as a demo recording on the 2005 re-released "Titanic Days". Eddi has worked with Kirsty's half brothers Neill and Calum MacColl.

Track listing

#"The Right Place" (Nevin) - 4:54
#"Patience of Angels" (Hewerdine) - 4:06
#"Dear John" (Nevin/Kirsty MacColl) - 4:10
#"Scarecrow" (Reader/Hewerdine/Gary Clark) - 3:34
#"East of Us" (Reader/Borowiecki) - 4:34
#"Joke (I’m laughing)" (Hewerdine) - 3:48
#"The Exception" (Nevin) - 4:28
#"Red Face Big Sky" (Reader/Borowiecki) - 4:11
#"Howling in Ojai" (Reader/David Piltch/Dean Parks) - 1:29
#"When I Watch You Sleeping" (Nevin) - 4:40
#"Wonderful Lie" (Reader/Hewerdine) - 4:34
#"Siren" (Reader/Borowiecki/Hewerdine) - 5:13

Personnel

*Eddi Reader: Vocals, backing vocals, tambourine
*Teddy Borowiecki: Keyboards, accordion, guitar
*Dean Parks: guitars, guitar percussion
*David Piltch: bass
*Curt Bisquera: drums, percussion
*Roy Dodds: Drums
*Mark E. Nevin: guitars
*Greg Penny: percussion
*John Ingoldsby: backing vocals
*Katia Lempkowicz: backing vocals