Blue Horizon (Wishbone Ash album) explained

Blue Horizon
Type:	Studio Album
Artist:	Wishbone Ash
Cover:	Wishbone Ash blue horizon.jpg
Released:	21 February 2014
Genre:	Rock
Length:	59:02
Label:	Solid Rockhouse
Producer:	Tom Greenwood, Andy Powell & Joe Crabtree
Prev Title:	Elegant Stealth
Prev Year:	2011
Next Title:	Coat of Arms
Next Year:	2020

Blue Horizon is the twenty-second studio album by rock band Wishbone Ash, released by Solid Rock Records on Intergroove^{[1] [2]} in 2014.^[3]

It features the dual lead guitars of Powell and Muddy Manninen.^[4] It was produced by Tom Greenwood, Andy Powell and Joe Crabtree.^[5]

Blue Horizon has received a number of positive reviews.^{[6] [7] [8]}

Track listing

1. "Take It Back" (Aynsley Powell) - 6:01
2. "Deep Blues" (Muddy Manninen / Ian Harris, Andy Powell, Joe Crabtree) - 5:28
3. "Strange How Things Come Back Around" (Roger Filgate) - 6:01
4. "Being One" (Manninen, Crabtree, Tom Greenwood / Harris, Crabtree, Greenwood, Andy Powell) - 5:07
5. "Way Down South" (Harris, Andy Powell) - 6:45
6. "Tally Ho!" (Manninen / Harris) - 4:46
7. "Mary Jane" (Manninen / Harris) - 4:38
8. "American Century" (Aynsley Powell / Andy Powell, Crabtree) - 5:07
9. "Blue Horizon" (Manninen / Harris) - 7:45
10. "All There Is to Say" (Pat McManus, Wishbone Ash / Andy Powell) - 7:24

Personnel

Wishbone Ash

• Andy Powell - guitar, lead vocals
• Muddy Manninen - guitar, backing vocals; lead vocals on "Mary Jane"
• Bob Skeat - bass, backing vocals
• Joe Crabtree - drums, percussion, backing vocals; guitar solo (outro) on "Take It Back".

Additional musicians

• Pat McManus - fiddle on "Take It Back" and "All There Is to Say", bouzouki on "All There Is to Say"
• Lucy Underhill - backing vocals on "Strange How Things Come Back Around", additional vocals on "American Century"
• Richard Young - percussion on "Strange How Things Come Back Around"
• Tom Greenwood - organ on "Blue Horizon"

Notes and References

1. http://www.metal-temple.com/site/catalogues/entry/reviews/cd_3/w_2/wishbone-ash-blue.htm "Wishbone Ash - Blue Horizon "
2. http://www.sonicabuse.com/2014/03/wishbone-ash-blue-horizon-album-review/ "Wishbone Ash – ‘Blue Horizon’ Album Review"
3. http://www.classicrockrevisited.com/show_review.php?id=1282 "Wishbone Ash – Blue Horizon Solid Rockhouse Records"
4. http://www.dangerdog.com/2014-music-reviews/wishbone-ash-blue-horizon.php#.VErX0RYQZco "Wishbone Ash: Blue Horizon"
5. http://musicconnection.com/album-review-wishbone-ash-blue-horizon/ "Album Review: Wishbone Ash – Blue Horizon"
6. http://rebelnoise.com/reviews/wishbone-ash-blue-horizon "Wishbone Ash - “Blue Horizon”"
7. http://www.musikreviews.de/reviews/2014/Wishbone-Ash/Blue-Horizon/ "Wishbone Ash: Blue Horizon (Review) "
8. http://www.rocktimes.de/gesamt/w/wishbone_ash/blue_horizon.html "Wishbone Ash / Blue Horizon"