Don Powell's Occasional Flames - Just My Cup Of Tea [CD]

Cat. no: DPL44T
Format: CD
Barcode: 5018755512513
Release Date: 23 Feb 2024
Genre: Pop

The title came from the fact that Don Powell drinks so much tea… and it’s so un-rock and roll! Notes written by Paul Cookson on behalf of the Occasional Flames:

“As well as the songs that Les and I had been working on, Don
contributed lyrics too

He said he’d got some unfnished lyrics that maybe we could use and should he send them over? Of course. I expected verses and choruses … the fle had loads – and I mean loads! – of scraps of paper with snippets and phrases. Not lyrics as such. However, one day, I sat down at my dining room table and spread them all out. Bit by bit, I found things that worked together and then, added a few linking lines of my own, or phrases I’d heard him say and several new songs were born.

Personally, what I love about the project is that it’s not a band as such, more of an artistic co-operative with music, words, visuals. Also, there’s something about the fact that Les, Martin and I were all born in 1961 and brought up in the north west – within thirty miles of each other, although we didn’t know each other then –
watching Slade on Top Of The Pops and here we are, all these years later, working
together with our mate Don, the drummer we watched on telly all those years ago.

And the songs are really good too!”

CD Tracks: Just My Cup Of Tea / Mid Life Crisis / Coz We Luv You (Cello Mix) / I Won't Be Playing Wonderwall Tonight (Cello Mix) / To Be Continued... / How Did We End Up Here? / Rythm Of The Road / Voodoo Shoes / Ordinary Stars / Beauty And The Beat / Dreams Die Hard / If (Is The Middle Word In Life) / We Are The Hearts / Bernie And Elton

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