Artist: Blue Nile
Genre(s):
ROck: Alternative
Discography:
High
Year: 2004
Tracks: 9
The Scottish folk-ambient circle the Blue Nile has enjoyed a mystique contrived by its inaccessibility and the rarity of its recordings, only it has also made a series of critically acclaimed discs. The group was formed by trey Glasgow natives wHO had graduated from university there: Paul Buchanan, bassist Robert Bell, and keyboardist Paul Joseph Moore. (Locomotive engineer Callum Malcolm and drummer Nigel Thomas feature worked with the trio systematically, to the decimal point of being considered secondary bandmembers.) (The Blue Nile is the title of Alan Moorehead's 1962 continuation to The White Nile, the two books making up a chronicle of the Nile River.) They recorded their possess single, "I Love This Life," which was distributed by Robert Stigwood's RSO Records precisely before the fellowship closed its doors. They were then signed by Linn Products, which released their debut record album, A Walk Across the Rooftops, in 1984. (A&M handled it in the U.S.) Since the company was small and the band did not enlistment, the record album took some sentence to find its audience, though it briefly reached the U.K. charts and lED to high expectations for a mo album. This came in 1989 with Hats, which reached the British Top 20, throwing off ternary graph singles, "The Downtown Lights," "Headlights on the Parade," and "Saturday Night." The album too made the lower reaches of the American charts as the Blue Nile embarked on its first circuit, a 30-date travel pickings position in the British Isles and the U.S. In the ensuing years, the band members switched record labels, sign language to Warner Bros., and contributed to recordings by Robbie Robertson and Julian Lennon. They ultimately emerged with their tierce album, Peace at Last, in June 1996. Another critically acclaimed release, it placed in the U.K. Top 20, merely failed to chart in the U.S.
