Espresso Logic Explained

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Espresso Logic
Type:studio
Artist:Chris Rea
Cover:Espresso Logic.jpg
Released:1 November 1993[1]
Genre:Album-oriented rock
Length:48:07 (original release)
53:21 (US edition)
Label:East West
Producer:Chris Rea
Prev Title:God's Great Banana Skin
Prev Year:1992
Next Title:The Best of Chris Rea
Next Year:1994

Espresso Logic is the thirteenth studio album by British singer-songwriter Chris Rea, released in 1993. The US edition of the album has a significantly different track listing, featuring two songs ("God's Great Banana Skin" and "Miles Is a Cigarette") from Rea's previous album, God's Great Banana Skin, which was not released in the US, along with "If You Were Me", a track recorded with Elton John for his 1993 Duets release. The cover art of the US edition is the same as the UK single "Espresso Logic". The song "Julia" was dedicated to his daughter Julia Christina, who was four years old at the time.

Critical reception

A "refined, elegant, rock style" characterizes the record, which continues Rea's '90s run of "commercially successful and critically acclaimed albums".[2] [3] A review in Guitar Player finds that "Rea immediately declares his multi-ethnic impulses", as the title track begins with his "languidly atmospheric slide guitar shimmering like the Pacific Ocean under a full Oahu moon. Then Davy Spillane's mournful Uillean pipes inject Celtic melancholy, and the two instruments interweave throughout the track, accompanied by a Brazilian-inflected tribal rhythm, until they are nearly indistinguishable from one another."[4] Rea recorded the album using the two '62 Fender Stratocasters, plugged into a Fender piggyback amp, "that he's relied on for more than a decade", and he uses a glass slide, rather than a brass one. "From working with Irish pipers, I've adopted this technique of banging the slide onto the harmonic. So I've had to stop using the brass, because I've only got one more refret on my pink Strat. I've played it so hard that I don't think there's gonna be any wood left," he ruefully acknowledges.

Track listing

All songs written by Chris Rea.

Original track listing

  1. "Espresso Logic" – 6:54
  2. "Red" – 5:26
  3. "Soup of the Day" – 3:45
  4. "Johnny Needs a Fast Car" – 6:35
  5. "Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea" – 4:50
  6. "Julia" – 3:55
  7. "Summer Love" – 4:07
  8. "New Way" – 3:30
  9. "Stop" – 5:10
  10. "She Closed Her Eyes" – 3:55

US track listing

  1. "Espresso Logic" – 6:53
  2. "Julia" – 3:54
  3. "Soup of the Day" – 3:46
  4. "If You Were Me" (duet with Elton John) – 4:20
  5. "Johnny Needs a Fast Car" – 6:34
  6. "Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea" – 4:49
  7. "God's Great Banana Skin" – 5:18
  8. "Miles Is a Cigarette" – 4:21
  9. "Summer Love" – 4:04
  10. "Red" – 5:26
  11. "She Closed Her Eyes" – 3:56

Personnel

Production

Studios

Charts

Year-end charts

Chart (1993)!scope="col"
Position
UK Albums (OCC)[5] 85

Notes and References

  1. Web site: BPI.
  2. Web site: Jumping back on the road to hell . Butler . Jackie . 14 March 2008 . Evening Herald . Dow Jones Factiva . 10 January 2021 .
  3. Web site: Chris still keeps it rea-l . Helen . Sloan . 14 March 2008 . Western Daily Press . Dow Jones Factiva . 10 January 2021 .
  4. Web site: Espresso Logic - sound recording review . Ransom . Kevin . 1 December 1994 . Guitar Player . Dow Jones Factiva . 10 January 2021 .
  5. Top 100 Albums 1993. Music Week. 15 January 1994. 25. 20 April 2022.

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