Darktown (album) explained

Darktown
Type:studio
Artist:Steve Hackett
Cover:Steve_Hackett_Dark_Town.jpg
Released:26 April 1999
Genre:Progressive rock
Length:56:33 (Original issue)71:39 (2013 reissue)
Label:InsideOut Music
Producer:Steve Hackett
Roger King
Prev Title:The Tokyo Tapes
Prev Year:1998
Next Title:Sketches of Satie
Next Year:2000

Darktown is the 14th studio album by English musician Steve Hackett, released in 1999. It was reissued in 2013 with 3 bonus tracks. On some copies of this reissue, the title was misspelled as "Darktwon" on the sides of the CD case.

Darktown is the last album to feature Julian Colbeck as a keyboardist, on the title track only. Colbeck had played with Hackett for much of the 1990s. Darktown shows the increasing role that Roger King would play as a part of Hackett's band, as a producer and keyboardist and later as a co-writer.

Track listing

All songs written by Steve Hackett, except indicated.

  1. "Omega Metallicus" – 3:48
  2. "Darktown" – 4:59
  3. "Man Overboard" – 4:17
  4. "The Golden Age of Steam" – 4:09
  5. "Days of Long Ago" (Hackett, Diamond) – 3:23
  6. "Dreaming with Open Eyes" – 6:54
  7. "Twice Around the Sun" – 7:15
  8. "Rise Again" – 4:26
  9. "Jane Austen's Door" – 6:13
  10. "Darktown Riot" – 3:10
  11. "In Memoriam" – 7:59

1999 Japanese bonus tracks

  1. "The Well At The World's End" (Instrumental) – 3:52
  2. "Comin' Home To The Blues" – 6:12 Japan Edition

2013 Reissue bonus tracks

  1. "Flame" – 4:21
  2. "Coming Home to the Blues" – 6:13
  3. "Fast Flower" – 4:32

"Flame" had previously been released on the Japanese edition of Hackett's 2003 album To Watch the Storms, "Coming Home to the Blues" on the Japanese edition of Darktown and "Fast Flower" on the Japanese edition of Hackett's 2009 album Out of the Tunnel's Mouth.

Personnel

Production

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