Chris Rea - Changing Times video free download

"Changing Times" 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:

Changing times, changing rules

Make a wise man look a fool

Gone before no longer here

Look out for these signs of these

Changing rules

Better look out

You better look out

Look out for these changing times

Can't stop those changing times

Changing times

Cold hard rain

Everything's a changing

Nothin's going to be the same

You'd better look out

'Cos you can't stop these changing times

Nothin's going ever to be the same

You'd better look out

Look out for these changing times.