Drive Home Explained

Drive Home
Type:	EP
Artist:	Steven Wilson
Cover:	Steven Wilson Drive Home DVD cover.jpg
Recorded:	Studio tracks: East West Studios, Los Angeles, 15–21 September 2012 Live tracks: Hugenottenhalle, Neu-Isenburg, 23 March 2013
Genre:	Progressive rock
Length:	62:24 (DVD/Blu-ray) 50:22 (CD)
Label:	Kscope
Producer:	Steven Wilson, Alan Parsons
Prev Title:	The Raven That Refused to Sing (And Other Stories)
Prev Year:	2013
Next Title:	Hand. Cannot. Erase.
Next Year:	2015

Drive Home is an EP released by British musician Steven Wilson, featuring music videos, previously unreleased tracks, and live renditions of several songs recorded at Hugenottenhalle, Frankfurt on 23 March 2013. The EP, which was released on 21 October 2013, was available in two versions: DVD/CD and Blu-ray/CD.^[1]

Reception

Thom Jurek of AllMusic praised the title track's "gorgeous meld of Pink Floyd's nocturnal atmospherics, the Moody Blues' melodic majesty, sprawling guitar solos, and Alan Parsons' crystalline production", while also describing the live tracks as "killer readings" which the band members "take ... far outside their studio boundaries." Although the EP would seem to be "for hardcore Wilson fans only, the video disc is alone worth the price of admission", according to Jurek.

Track listing

All songs written by Steven Wilson.^[2]

Sources:^{[1] [2]}

Personnel

Musicians

• Steven Wilson – vocals, keyboards, guitars, bass guitar on "The Holy Drinker"
• Nick Beggs – bass guitar, backing vocals, Chapman Stick on "The Holy Drinker"
• Guthrie Govan – lead guitar
• Adam Holzman – keyboards
• Marco Minnemann – drums
• Theo Travis – flutes, saxophones, clarinet

Additional personnel

• Strings arranged by Dave Stewart and performed by the London Session Orchestra (soloist – Perry Montague-Mason)

Production

• Steven Wilson – production, mixing
• Alan Parsons – associate producer, recording engineer
• Brendan Dekora – assistant engineer

Videos

• "Drive Home" – directed by Jess Cope; produced by Tom Kaye; edited by Topher Holland
• "The Raven that Refused to Sing" – directed by Jess Cope and Simon Cartwright; produced by Tom Kaye; edited by Topher Holland
• Live tracks – directed and edited by Bernhard Baran/B-light-pictures; cameras operated by Rüdiger Jonitz, Jochen Fink, Bernhard Baran, Dirk Meissner, Olof Kreidl, Philipp Werle, Manuel Theobald, Simon Loge

Other

• Hajo Mueller – illustrations
• Carl Glover – design
• Ray Shulman (at I-sonic) – Blu-ray/DVD authoring

Source:^[2]

Notes and References

1. Web site: Steven Wilson premiere: Drive Home. Classic Rock. 20 September 2013. 22 October 2013. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20131023060825/http://www.classicrockmagazine.com/music_and_videos/steven-wilson-premiere-drive-home/. 23 October 2013.
2. Drive Home liner notes.