So what do you get? Nothing less than fourteen songs featuring The Vicar's unique string and chamber pop, played by some of the world's outstanding musicians. By contrast, continuing his lifelong passion for unearthing new or undervalued talent, The Vicar throws the vocal microphone to emerging singers spotted at small venues or on the internet and lesser-known cult favourites.
The songs go everywhere pop songs should - Gay bars in New York (Man with a Woman), Adolescence (Twenty Two), Moonstruck love (The Moony Song), Vanity (That Boy's Not Cool), Nostalgia (Childhood Days) - and a few places they probably shouldn't - a world without belief (San Manuel. Lonely Sunday), a mother coping with the death of a child (Count Your Blessings), and the simply surreal (Inside my Head).
THE TRACKS
The important bit. The music itself. Click on a player to listen to any of the songs and view details of the musicians. We encourage, nay beg you to share the links. Enjoy!
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SONGBOOK#1 Special DVD Edition
Deluxe double digipak version of The Vicar’s Songbook#1. Includes a DVDA of the complete album in 5.1 surround sound, as acclaimed by Dolby laboratories, plus 36 video episodes of Vicar Chronicle The First : “The Mysterious Case of Billy’s G String”. Also fourteen track regular CD.
SONGBOOK#1 CD Edition
CD release of The Vicar Songbook#1. Fourteen songs with The Vicar's unique string and chamber arrangements, played by some of the world's outstanding musicians, and sung by invited guest singers
SONGBOOK#1 Digital Download
Digital download of The Vicar Songbook#1 - specially mastered at Hi Res for iTunes.
