Songs from the Deep Forest

Infobox Album
Name = Songs from the Deep Forest
Type = Album
Artist = Duke Special


Released = May 2006 (vinyl), October 2006 (CD)
Recorded =
Genre = Rock
Length = 42:59
Label = V2
Producer = Dave Lynch and Paul Wilkinson
Reviews =
*Allmusic Rating|3.5|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:kzfexqwrldae link]
*Drowned in Sound rating-10|5 [http://www.drownedinsound.com/release/view/8447 link]
Last album = "Your Vandal EP" (2006)
This album = "Songs from the Deep Forest"
Next album = "I Never Thought This Day Would Come" (2008)

"Songs from the Deep Forest" is an album by Northern Ireland based artist Duke Special. In May 2006 it was released as a limited edition set of six 7" vinyl discs and then re-released as a single CD in October of the same year. It has been nominated for a 2007 Meteor Music Award for best Irish album, and for the 2007 Choice Music Prize.

On October 1st 2007, a special 2-disc edition was released which included the new song "Our Love Goes Deeper Than This" which featured Neil Hannon and Romeo Stodart.A bonus second disc was included in this edition and includes songs from the live BBC performance recorded in Belfast.

=Track listing=

ingle Disc

The album has twelve tracks:

#Wake Up Scarlett
#Everybody Wants a Little Something
#Brixton Leaves
#Freewheel
#No Cover Up
#Portrait
#Last Night I Nearly Died (But I Woke Up Just in Time)
#Ballad of a Broken Man
#Salvation Tambourine
#Something Might Happen
#Slip of a Girl
#This Could Be My Last Day

Bonus Version

A special "Bonus Version of the Album" contains two additional tracks:
#Salvation Tambourine (demo)
#And It Stoned Me (live)

pecial Edition

Disc 1

#Wake Up Scarlett
#Everybody Wants a Little Something
#Brixton Leaves
#Our Love Goes Deeper Than This (Feat. Neil Hannon and Romeo Stodart)
#Freewheel
#No Cover Up
#Portrait
#Last Night I Nearly Died (But I Woke Up Just in Time)
#Ballad of a Broken Man
#Salvation Tambourine
#Something Might Happen
#Slip of a Girl
#This Could Be My Last Day

Disc 2

#Overture (BBC Live version)
#Brixton Leaves (BBC Live version)
#Last Night I Nearly Died (BBC Live version)
#Portrait (BBC Live version)
#Wake Up Scarlett (BBC Live version)
#Regarding the Moonlight in Eastbourne (BBC Live version)
#Salvation Tambourine (BBC Live version)
#No Cover Up (BBC Live version)
#I Let You Down (BBC Live version)
#Freewheel (BBC Live version)

All songs were written by Duke Special, with the exception of "Brixton Leaves" (by Duke Special and Ben Hales), "Slip of a Girl" (by Paul Wilkinson) and "And it Stoned Me" (by Van Morrison). Earlier versions of "Last Night I Nearly Died (But I Woke Up Just in Time)", "Freewheel" and "Wake up Scarlett" appeared on "Adventures in Gramophone", and an earlier version of "Portrait" appeared on the "Your Vandal" EP.