John Howard – Collected: The Best of John Howard (2021) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

John Howard - Collected: The Best of John Howard (2021) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz] Download

First commercially issued career overview/best of from singer songwriter John Howard, reaching right back to early demos I’ll Feel What I Feel and 3 Years, which both predated his debut single Goodbye Susie from 1974. The set comes right up to date with selections from his recent albums and the 2020 single In The Stillbeat Of A Silent Day. This collection has been by put together by Edward Rogers and mastered by The Night Mail’s Ian Button. Ian Canty collects his thoughts…

John Howard’s remarkable 21st century renaissance has brought into sharp focus the fact that he’s never been subject to a properly released career best of set. With a wealth of great material to choose from over the years, it is rather startling this was the case. But now we have a 2CD entitled Collected, that seeks to put things right.

Emerging through the folk clubs, John was eventually noticed by CBS Records as a promising artist and offered the young man a recording contract. During this time he developed a startlingly cool image to go along with his musical abilities and was presented by promotion and advertising as a kind of post-glam space balladeer. After the breakthrough to mainstream success didn’t arrive, mostly due to blanket radio bans on his singles, he spent a long time away from performing, instead involved himself in a successful second career in A&R. The hugely positive reaction to the reissue of the Kid In A Big World album in 2005 helped to reignite his muse and since then he has produced a host of critically acclaimed works.

Tracklist:

01. John Howard – Goodbye Suzie (04:24)
02. John Howard – The Dilemma of the Homosapien (02:38)
03. John Howard – Dear Glitterheart (03:58)
04. John Howard – I Got My Lady (03:06)
05. John Howard – Can You Hear Me Ok? (02:57)
06. John Howard – Oh Dad (Look What You Done) (02:28)
07. John Howard – Kid in a Big World (03:47)
08. John Howard – These Fifty Years (03:15)
09. John Howard – Take up Your Partners (finale) (05:12)
10. John Howard – Life Is Never the Way We Want It to Be (03:33)
11. John Howard – Frightened Now (04:27)
12. John Howard – Be Not so Fearful (03:23)
13. John Howard – Stardust Falling (For Jobriath) (05:13)
14. John Howard – My Beautiful Days (03:44)
15. John Howard – Family Man (02:58)
16. John Howard – Believe Me Richard (03:22)
17. John Howard – Loving You (04:33)
18. John Howard – Small Town, Big Adventures (02:59)
19. John Howard – Technicolour Biography (06:02)
20. John Howard – Three Years (03:03)
21. John Howard – Maybe Someday in Miami (02:03)
22. John Howard – Injuries Sustained in Surviving (04:57)
23. John Howard – Favourite Chair (03:18)
24. John Howard – Something Good (03:14)
25. John Howard – Neil (you Can Depend on Me) (04:02)
26. John Howard – I Can Breathe Again (03:35)
27. John Howard – London Loves You (07:59)
28. John Howard – Becoming (05:08)
29. John Howard – Staying at Home Kinda Guy (02:30)
30. John Howard – Small World (03:39)
31. John Howard – I’m the Talk of the Town (02:58)
32. John Howard – Another Day (04:36)
33. John Howard – Comic Strip (02:39)
34. John Howard – Snow (02:29)
35. John Howard – You’re Mine Tonight (02:58)
36. John Howard – In the Stillbeat of a Silent Day (03:57)
37. John Howard – Deadly Nightshade (Live at The Servant Jazz Quarters, London, 2013) (02:21)
38. John Howard – I’ll Feel What I Feel (03:31)