Rain or Shine (Paul Carrack album)

Rain or Shine
Studio album by Paul Carrack
Released December 2013
Genre
Length 35:26
Label Carrack-UK
Producer Paul Carrack, Peter Van Hooke
Paul Carrack chronology
Good Feeling
(2012)Good Feeling2012
Rain or Shine
(2013)
Soul Shadows
(2016)Soul Shadows2016

Rain or Shine is the fifteenth solo studio album by the English singer-songwriter Paul Carrack. It was originally released in 2013 on Carrack's own Carrack-UK label, and was co-produced by Carrack and long-time associate Peter Van Hooke, who is Carrack's former Mike + The Mechanics bandmate.

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[1]

AllMusic's Stephen Thomas Erlewine writes that "Rain or Shine captures Paul Carrack living comfortably inside his signature sound: a blue-eyed soul that turns happier with each passing year." [1]

Track listing

No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Stepping Stone"Paul Carrack4:04
2."That's All That Matters To Me"Carrack3:37
3."One In A Million"Carrack3:38
4."You Don't Know Me"Cindy Walker, Eddy Arnold3:14
5."(If Loving You Is Wrong) I Don't Want To Be Right"Homer Banks, Carl Hampton, Raymond Jackson3:59
6."Time Waits For No One"Carrack4:02
7."Hard Times (No One Knows Better Than I)"Ray Charles, Mitch Mitchell3:07
8."I'm Losing You"Pierre Havet, Jean Gaston Renard, Carl Sigman2:54
9."Life's Too Short"Carrack3:19
10."Come Rain Or Come Shine"Harold Arlen, Johnny Mercer3:31

Personnel

Credits are adapted from the album's liner notes.[2]

  • Paul Carrack lead vocals, keyboards, harmonica, bass, guitars, percussion
  • Jack Carrack – drums
  • Ian Thomas – drums
  • Jeremy Meek – bass
  • Steve Pearce – double bass
  • Jim Watson – piano
  • Tom Evans – tenor sax
  • Tom Luer – baritone sax
  • Doug Webb – alto sax
  • Steve Stassi – trumpet
  • Lee Thornburg – trumpet
  • Stringzilla Orchestra – strings


Production team
  • Paul Carrack producer
  • Peter Van Hooke – producer
  • Rupert Cobb engineer, mixing
  • Ashburn Miller – engineer (horns and strings)
  • Zavosh Rad – engineer (horns and strings)
  • Richard Niles – horn and string arrangements


References

  1. 1 2 [Rain or Shine at AllMusic allmusic review]
  2. Rain or Shine liner notes. Carrack-UK. 2013.
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