Kevin Coyne – Legless In Manilla & Knocking On Your Brain – 2CD

Many musicians have become better known, but few have done more good work or been in the business longer than Kevin Coyne. Before Coyne moved from England to his new home in Nuremberg, Germany, and got a handle on his depression and alcohol problems, Legless In Manila with English backing musicians Steve Lamb (b), David Sheen (dr) and Peter Hope-Evans (harm) was the last work made in his old home country. By the '90s, Coyne had re-established himself as a true underground force, releasing a steady stream of albums of dizzying variety (and availability). On the 1997 album Knocking On Your Brain, top German musicians such as Ali Neander (Rodgau Monotones), Tom Liwa (Flowerpornoes), Ralf Gustke (Gianna Nannini) and Willy Wagner (Rio Reiser Band) accompanied him. Special guest on the CD is Gary Lucas (Captain Beefheart, Jeff Buckley, Nick Cave, Lou Reed). Outstanding his slide guitar on the opening track Wonderland, great as always Kevin's vocals and interpretations, his lyrics and his improvisations, over twenty songs were recorded in three days.

Track Listing:

CD1:
Legless In Manila
1. Big Money Man - 3:05   2. Gina's Song - 3:57   3. Money Machine - 2:03   4. Raindrop On The River - 2:56   5. Nigel In Napoli -2:21   6. Zoo Wars - 2:28   7. Black Cloud - 3:34   8. Legless In Manila - 2:52   9. Don't Raise An Argument - 4:04   10. Cycling - 2:44
Knocking On Your Brain
11. Wonderland - 3:55   12. Wasted Lives - 2:52   13. Monkey With Your Funky - 3:34   14. Day & Night - 3:23   15. Fatty Boy - 2:29   16. Nuts - 2:43   17. Mr. Pinko - 5:27   18. Out On The Park - 4:11   19. Teenage Queen - 4:55   20. Happy - 3:34   21. Give Me Some Of That - 6:21

CD2 : Knocking On Your Brain
1. English Rose - 3:56   2. Our Little Love Song - 5:24   3. Aching Heart - 7:30   4. Kevin's Happy Home - 3:46   5. Peachtree Avenue - 4:52   6. Weirdo - 4:24   7. Schoolboy - 3:14   8. Knocking On Your Brain - 3:05   9. Why? - 3:54   10. 1955 -2:46   11. My Little Angel - 2:52

Personnel:

On Legless In Manila
Kevin Coyne (vocals, guitar) , Peter Hope-Evans (harmonica) , Steve Lam (bass) , David Sheen (drums) 

On Knocking On Your Brain
Kevin Coyne (vocals, guitar) , Gary Lucas (guitar) , Tom Liwa (guitar, synthesizer) , Ali Neander (guitar, glockenspiel, banjo) , Willy Wagner (double bass) , Ralf Gustke (drums, percussion) , Jürgen Wüst (organ, piano) , Constanze Posth (cello, saxophone)