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Hugh Laurie – Didn't It Rain / Warner Music Entertainment Audio CD 2013
UPC 5053105713721
Product Details:
Product description:
Didn't It Rain is the second studio album by English actor and musician Hugh Laurie.
Recorded in Ocean Way Studios in Los Angeles in January 2013, the album contains several blues songs (like its predecessor). Unlike his previous album, however, Laurie also branches further into other Southern US and South American genres, including jazz, R&B, and tango.
Similarly to Let Them Talk, Laurie once again plays piano and guitar, and often provides vocals. Additionally, Laurie is joined by guest musicians Gaby Moreno, Jean McClain, and Taj Mahal, and is supported throughout by the Copper Bottom Band.
Didn't It Rain was released in the UK on 6 May 2013, with iTunes providing pre-order and digital releases, and Amazon providing vinyl prints and a special book edition. As a promotion for a Huffington Post interview regarding Laurie's album and upcoming tour, the album had a 24-hour free streaming period in several countries. It was released in the United States on 6 August 2013.
The miniature piano seen on the album artwork was given to Laurie on a 2009 episode of Friday Night with Jonathan Ross.
Tracklist:
| 1 | The St. Louis Blues
Written-By – Rudy Stevenson |
4:21 |
| 2 | Junkers Blues
Written-By – William Jack Dupree |
2:55 |
| 3 | Kiss Of Fire
Composed By – Arroyo Y Villoldo, Written-By – Lester Allen, Robert Hill (4) |
3:27 |
| 4 | Vicksburg Blues
Written-By – Little Brother Montgomery |
4:28 |
| 5 | The Weed Smoker's Dream
Written-By – Joe McCoy |
4:17 |
| 6 | Wild Honey
Written-By – Malcolm John Rebennack, Robert Charles Guidry |
4:20 |
| 7 | Send Me To The 'Lectric Chair
Written-By – George Brooks |
5:26 |
| 8 | Evenin'
Written-By – Harry A. White, Mitchell Parish |
3:03 |
| 9 | Didn't It Rain
Written-By – Robert SH Martin |
2:52 |
| 10 | Careless Love
Written-By – Martin E. Koenig, Spencer Williams (2), W.C. Handy |
5:21 |
| 11 | One For My Baby
Written-By – Harold Arlen, John H. Mercer |
4:00 |
| 12 |
I Hate A Man Like You
Written-By – Joseph Ferdinand Morton |
4:17 |
| 13 | Changes
Written-By – Alan Price |
3:58 |
Song-list:
1. The St. Louis Blues
2. Junkers Blues
3. Kiss Of Fire
4. Vicksburg Blues
5. The Weed Smoker's Dream
6. Wild Honey
7. Send Me To The 'Lectric Chair
8. Evenin'
9. Didn't It Rain
10. Careless Love
11. One For My Baby
12. I Hate A Man Like You
13. Changes
More Details:
- Accordion, Organ, Keyboards – Patrick Warren
- Acoustic Bass [Upright], Electric Bass – David Piltch
- Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar, Lap Steel Guitar, Mandolin, Mandola, Mandocello, Tenor Banjo, Backing Vocals – Kevin Breit
- Alto Saxophone, Tenor Saxophone, Clarinet, Bass Clarinet – Robby Marshall
- Art Direction, Design – Anabel Sinn
- Backing Vocals – Gaby Moreno, Jean McClain
- Drums, Percussion – Jay Bellerose
- Executive-Producer – Conrad Withey
- Lead Vocals – Gaby Moreno (tracks: 3, 5, 9), Jean McClain (tracks: 7, 9, 12), Taj Mahal (tracks: 4)
- Mandolin, Mandola, Lap Steel Guitar, Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar – Greg Leisz
- Mastered By – Gavin Lurssen
- Organ [Hammond B3] – Larry Goldings
- Photography By – Michael Wilson (8)
- Photography By [Cover] – Mary McCartney
- Piano, Acoustic Guitar, Vocals – Hugh Laurie
- Producer – Joe Henry
- Recorded By, Mixed By – Ryan Freeland
- Soprano Saxophone, Tenor Saxophone, Baritone Saxophone, Clarinet, Bass Clarinet, Harmonica, Vocals – Vincent Henry
- Trombone – Elizabeth Lea
About the Artist:
James Hugh Calum Laurie CBE (born 11 June 1959) is an English actor, director, singer, musician, comedian and author. Laurie is known for portraying the title character on the Fox medical drama series House (2004–2012), for which he received two Golden Globe Awards and nominations for numerous other awards. He was listed in the 2011 Guinness World Records as the most watched leading man on television and was one of the highest-paid actors in a television drama, earning £250,000 ($409,000) per episode of House. His other television credits include arms dealer Richard Onslow Roper in the miniseries The Night Manager (2016), for which he won his third Golden Globe Award, and Senator Tom James in the HBO sitcom Veep (2012–2019), for which he received his 10th Emmy Award nomination.
Laurie first gained recognition for his work as one half of the comedy double act Fry and Laurie with his friend and comedy partner Stephen Fry, whom he met through their mutual friend Emma Thompson whilst attending Cambridge University, where Laurie was president of the Footlights. The two men acted together in a number of projects during the 1980s and 1990s, including the sketch comedy series A Bit of Fry & Laurie and the P. G. Wodehouse adaptation Jeeves and Wooster. Laurie's other roles during this time include the period comedy series Blackadder (in which Fry also appeared) and the films Sense and Sensibility, 101 Dalmatians, The Borrowers, and Stuart Little.
Outside of acting, Laurie released the blues albums Let Them Talk (2011) and Didn't It Rain (2013), both to favourable reviews, and authored the novel The Gun Seller (1996).
Among his honours, Laurie has won three Golden Globe Awards and two Screen Actors Guild Awards, and has been nominated for 10 Primetime Emmy Awards. He received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2016. He was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2007 New Year Honours and Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2018 New Year Honours, both for services to drama.
