The Long Way Round
The Long Way Round was released on 1st December 2009 and is available to buy now.
Overview
The Long Way Round is a trail-blazing collection of upbeat tracks that swoop across the world, from London’s fashionable West End to the desert outskirts of Middle America…
A capricious ride through time and place, Gronk’s latest offering will never take the short, prosaic route if it can take The Long Way Round…
Tracklist
- THE MARBLE ARCH—a toms-driven Dylanesque opening number, this paints London as a run-down fairy-tale town
- CALL ME OLD-FASHIONED BUT...—one of my personal favourites, a meandering surreal love song with slight reggae overtones and a gradually rising lead guitar part by Claud Musker
- NOBODY CAN SEE—Motown-influenced big band sound with Adrian French on trumpet
- GOIN' TO THE FESTIVAL—a rambunctious country pastiche with Claud and Adrian giving it some welly on guitar and trumpet
- SIXES AND SEVENS—scattergun blues featuring some blistering guitar work from Claud and brash tenor saxophone from the brilliant Scott Durum
- PANAMA—a quiet and slightly cheesy song about escape, building up to a big finish
- GOOD MORNING CAROLINA—recorded in a North Carolina beach house, this instrumental is led by Scott's gorgeous tenor sax, with yours truly backing up on double-tracked marimba
- THE BACK OF BEYOND—a bit of a throwback to my Cure-influenced earlier stuff, this is a whole lot happier
- SAW IT COMING—hooray, my first power ballad, climaxing in a fantastically bombastic extended guitar solo by Claud
- WANDERLUST—a paean to beaches, sunsets and the thrill of travelling, complete with clogged Disney-style voices in the background
- THE LONG WAY ROUND—with summery big beats, auto-tuned vocals, Claud's guitar and Adrian's trumpet, this is my favourite song on the album
- ANOTHER SUNRISE—a nice piece of space-funk to round things off, with Adrian's mariachi-style trumpet solo leading to a final flourish of distorted wah-wah sunrise guitar...
The mood traverses reflective melancholy, strange excitement, passionate enjoyment and laconic laughter—all delivered with an occasional side order of traditional English diffidence…
