Chris Rea - Ain't Going Down This Way video free download

"Ain't Going Down This Way" from a 2002 album, "Dancing Down The Stony Road".

This is a part clip from the masterpiece DVD, "Dancing Down The Stony Road" , made mainly at Miraval Studios in Provence, France.

This DVD includes a superb 75-minutes documentary about recording "Stony Road" album, one short 23 min live/interview featurette from Cologne and a collection of Chris Rea paintings.

Rea's understanding of how the blues evolved from the Delta up to Chicago is a revelation.

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:

I see the morning light - come screaming thru my room

I fel the devils eyes - and smell his cold perfume

THere is no mercy here - Ccould not be a darker day

But I ain't going down - I ain't going down this way

Oh I know your face - I've seen it a thousand times

In my darkest dream - I have witnessed every single crime

You think I'm joking - I'm wet with fear

But I've made up my mind today

I ain't going down.