Ennismore

According to Russo's Collector's Guide, fifty years ago to-day (20 October 1972), Colin Blunstone's Ennismore (Epic S EPC 65278) was released in the U.K.  The release in the U.S. and Canada (Epic KE 31994) was 26 February 1973.

The same day, "I Don't Believe in Miracles" b/w "I've Always Had You" (Epic S EPC 8434) was released in the U.K.  The release in the U.S. and Canada (Epic 5-10948) was 22 January 1973.

"I've Always Had You"

Yester-day I listened to the 50th anniversary edition of One Year for the first time.  One of the bonus tracks is a demo of "I've Always Had You," which later appeared on Ennismore.  This is a minor point, but I noticed that "good and bad" in the line "I've travelled far, through good and bad" is a merism.

"I've Always Had You"

Backdated, archival post

[link to original on tumblr]

---&---

Two days ago, I figured out the guitar parts for Colin Blunstone's "I've Always Had You."  (Or, at least what I have is pretty close.)

There's actually some similarity between the picking pattern used here and that in "Maybe after He's Gone."

"I've Always Had You" uses:

|     x  x     x  x

|     x  x     x  x

|   x        x

| x        x  

Where "Maybe after He's Gone" has:

|     x     x   x

|     x     x   x

|   x     x

| x     x     x

The higher two strings are plucked simultaneously - that's the real similarity.  I'm not sure how common that is, so I don't know if it's an intentional sort of reference, but I thought I'd note it anyway.

Until learning the chords, I didn't realize that the second part of this is half a step higher.  It's not just the first part raised though; there are differences in the chord progression.