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Strangers With Shoes

by Robin Grey

rock folk acoustic banjo violin

8 tracks

37:16

1	Younger Looking Skin	5:31
2	Till Dawn	4:21
3	I Love Leonard Cohen	4:00
4	The Suitors Ballyhoo	4:56
5	Montreal	4:38
6	Shakes & Shudders	4:59
7	Ninety Days	3:36
8	Roses From Africa	5:15

Album description

You can buy best quality mp3/wavs from http://music.robingrey.com/ - if you have enjoyed this album please consider buying it.

Please drop me a line at mail@robingrey.com to let me know if you use my music anywhere - it is always fun to see where it ends up - I am also happy to discuss licensing and sync for commercial projects.

Tenth release by modifythevan - a creative commons record label - http://www.modifythevan.com

The second album from Robin Grey.

8 tracks of gently experimental nu-folk inspired by the timeless work of Bob Dylan, Leonard Cohen, and Ani Difranco amongst many others.

"Bluesy and folky... it’s a really bloody good album." Song By Toad

"Grey is one of those wonderful talents that could recite the phone directory on record and you’d still be enthralled." Another Form Of Relief

"Very english... a great voice and a distinctive sound which is enhanced further by his excellent backing group." Backstage Pass

"Exceptionally talented... a voice you could easily listen to for hours."
The Hackney Post

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To buy high quality mp3 (320k) and/or cd visit http://robingrey.bandcamp.com - (cd available january 2010)

All songs by Robin Grey except
'Younger Looking Skin' words by Robin Grey, music by Robin Grey, Barbara Bartz and Iain MacLeod.
'Montreal' by Laurence Williams.
'Shakes & Shudders' words by Robin Grey, music by Robin Grey and Beth Dariti.

(c) & (p) 2009 Robin Grey.

Recorded by Robin Grey at The Blue Door.

Mastered by Dominique Brethes at Flow Mastering.
Additional Engineering on 'Till Dawn' and 'Ninety Days'
by Marc Specter at Sandy Lodge Studio.
Mixed by Thomas Heister at Flesh & Bone Studios except tracks 1,2, 6 & 7 mixed by Robin Grey.

Robin Grey - vocals, guitars, ukulele, electric bass and percussion with:

Iain Macleod - banjo on 'Younger Looking Skin', 'Montreal' and bass on 'Roses From Africa'
Ben Oliver - rhodes on 'Till Dawn' and 'Ninety Days', piano on 'Roses From Africa'
Joe Allen - percussion on 'Younger Looking Skin', 'Till Dawn' and 'Ninety Days'
Barbara Bartz - accordion and violin on 'Younger Looking Skin' violin on 'Montreal', 'The Suitors Ballyhoo' and 'Roses From Africa'
Tom Pie - double bass on 'Ninety Days'
Poppy Villiers-Stuart - flute on 'Till Dawn'
Madelaine Hart - backing vocals on 'I Love Leonard Cohen'
Beth Dariti - guitar and backing vocals on 'Shakes & Shudders'
Victoria Couper - backing vocals on 'Roses From Africa'

Front cover and inside picture by Lynda Laird.
Back cover by Erik Öhrn.
Packaging by Paperfoam using 100% recycled and recyclable materials.

(cc) This record is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs license, giving you the freedom to copy and share the recordings for any non-commercial purpose.

All rights regarding the commercial usage of the record are reserved and unauthorised commercial replication is strictly prohibited. For more information visit http://creativecommons.org.

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Reviews on Strangers With Shoes

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musictomyears

Forget High Street Music Stores.. Jamendo Is Very Lucky To Have Robin For Free.. & So Are We....

10/10/10

All I can say about Robin Grey, he is the type of guys, who was born to sing, and give so much pleasure and pure outstanding enjoyment, and total satisfaction guaranteed, when he just simply sings, his heart and soul out, for our pleasure and his also course. Just everything about his voice, poetic lyrics and visionary tales of bliss, fun and happiness and real live situations. Just inspires you and makes your heart glow and resonate as each of his exquisite songs. Flow graceful and bewitchingly into the next and another begins.. I just felt myself relax and totally unwind and bathe inside this adorable, carefree, beautifully composed, performed and produced tapestry of musical expression. Heard, felt and truly admired and appreciated by me the listener.

I truly have to say. Robin is that high a caliber singer and artist in general. Any album done by him. Would be sold out with an hour of being put into a mega high street music store. So we are undeniably very lucky to even get Robins albums for free here on Jamendo..

Kalavande

Awesome

17/12/09

Awesomness.

farmertan

Better than commercial radio by leaps and bounds

27/10/11

I was first struck by the excellent production, the subtle additions of angelic female vocals- flutes, etc. great lyrics, seemlessly switching between talking and singing, with huge hints of Al Stewart, Belle and Sebastian, and if your very young, The Mumford bros. -but so much more listenable than the latter.

A fantastic positive for this website.

09/05/11

25/08/10

I LOVED this album! OK - I try to never ever rave about an album but I loved this guy when I heard him, Robin Grey, in his debut album, "Only The Missile," and it was spectacular, but as I listen to so many musicians here, I forget some as time goes by . . . and if no one reminds me . . . but I was bored, tonight, and I was browsing, and poking around in every nook and corner here on Jamendo and look what I discovered and dusted off to have a listen, and ---- OH be still my heart . . . I love his voice. I love his strumming, strolling guitar. "The Suitors Ballyhoo" had an extraordinary violin that just seemed to float in through the ether . . . and tunes so catchy I, myself, am singing along . . . The sound quality is superb, extraordinary folk, great stories . . . beautiful, beautiful . . . shhh . . .let me listen now. OH and if he came anywhere near my town, say 1,000 miles I probably would fly out to see and hear him . . . Where are you Robin Grey?

And that violin in "Roses from Africa" just broke my heart . . . such beauty!

MCBardon

Just a masterpiece

05/06/10

Robin Grey ist einer dieser Musiker, die in ihrer Karriere mehr erreichen könnten, als manch ein anderer. Doch wehr nicht mit dem Mainstream geht ist ja immer auf dem Holzweg. Das heißt überhaupt nicht, dass Robin Greys Musik nicht eingängig ist, doch sie ist nicht das was von der Masse verlangt wird. Der häufige Einsatz von Geigen und die Melodien, die Robin Greys Musik auszeichnen laden ein davonzuschweben und zu träumen. Manche Melodie ist so schön, dass man hofft, man hätte ihre Existens schon vor langem entdeckt. Nicht eines der Lieder verführt zum weiterschalten, es gibt keine "Albumfüller". Die Texte sind es ebenfalls wert, genauer beachtet zu werden.
Die Kombination aus Robin Greys Stimme, den Melodien und der Texte, macht dieses Album zu einem meiner absoluten Lieblingsalben.

Anspieltipps: I Love Leonard Cohen
The Suitors Ballyhoo
Roses From Africa

treemaker

Awesome and the rest

26/04/10

I am not going to download this or your first album Mr Grey instead I am going to use my download credits on emusic that way I hope I have paid for what I believe are two excellent albums; loving Roses and Leonard Cohen - good luck and thank you. I suggest everyone purchases your albums.

rekrapenator

Good album

26/04/10

I liked the variety of sound and great lyrics. Word play a bit repetitive at times. lovely instrumentation.

sandhus

Boring

18/02/10

Remarkably good work!
I wouldn't compare Robin Grey with anyone else.
The album is very relaxing to listen to, perfect for a winter evening. Thank you Mr Grey!

Hipster

CTW Thumbs-up

08/02/10

Yet another good album from Robin Grey - so good, in fact, that I've awarded it the dubious honour of a Catching The Waves review. That's two out of two! :)

http://bit.ly/cS2nnD

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