"Someday My Peace Will Come" from a 2002 album, "Dancing Down The Stony Road".
This is a part from DVD, "Dancing Down The Stony Road". Film documentary made at Miraval Studios in Provence, France.
Dancing Down the Stony Road is a 2002 album by Chris Rea, released on his own label, Jazzee Blue.
The album has also been released under the shorter title Stony Road with different cover art on Edel.
A version of Dancing Down The Stony Road was used in the BBC television programme Speed. There are also double CD editions available, featuring additional tracks.
Chris Rea "Dancing Down The Stony Road", Mortality, and Inspiration in the Face of Fear.
In 2001 Rea was struck down with a severe case of Pancreatitis, later revealed to have been cancerous. The operation that he went in for only assured him a 50% chance of survival.
He has stated in interviews since that he swore to himself before the operation that if he survived he would return to his blues roots and pack in the commercial rock business. Needless to say the man survived, and Dancing Down The Stony Road was the resulting masterpiece.
Chris Rea's obsession with the Delta blues is heavily prevalent in this album. He uses his exceptional slide guitar playing to great effect, his vocals are deep and charred (emphasizing the blues themes in his writing), and the production raw and sparse.
Chris Rea: "I've loved Studio MIRAVAL for quite a while because it has a completely different atmosphere from all those high-tech studios. For example, for years they've been collecting fantastic microphones that you can't buy anywhere else any more. As a consequence, they're hardly available in other studios. And then, the heat and the landscape there, well, you know - it's almost like being way down South...
Personnel:
Chris Rea - vocals, guitars, producer, paintings
Robert Ahwai - guitar
Sylvin Marc - bass
Ed Hession - accordion
Gerry O'Connor - banjo
Martin Ditcham - drums
Stewart Eales - engineer
John Kelly - mastering
Peacock - design
Olaf Heine - photography
Lyrics:
Someday
My peace will come
Oh I know
My peace will come
I will sleep like a child without pain
Without fear
Like a smile in the afternoon sun
Oh someday
My peace will come
Lord can you hear me
Oh I know you know my name
It's written in the tears
That flow from my pain
Broken hearted broken soul
All my life on the run
But someday
Yeah someday
My peace will come
Someday
My peace will come.
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