Description
Danny & The Champs’ and Rockingbirds’ bass-player and producer unveils debut solo album.
Electric Hero is the nom de plume of bass player and producer, Chris Clarke; erstwhile Holy Roader
(Indie Legend Peter Astor’s ‘90’s outfit), Rockingbirds (North London country-rockers), Lost Son of
Littlefield (cult country outlaws), one quarter of Horse Latitudes (90s Camden janglers) and
Champion of the World (multi award-winning Americana).
Among his extra-curricular activities, Chris has also played bass, produced and worked with diverse
acts such as nocturnal chanteuse Sukie Smith aka Madam, greasy rock sensations The Jim Jones
Revue and New Heavy Sounds (Too Pure’s Paul Cox latest label); film soundtrack – In The Land Of
Blood And Honey (written, produced and directed by Angelina Jolie) with Dado Dzihan; showman
and gypsy legend Donald Byron Wheatley; the funky instrumental pedal steel of Henry Senior Jnr
and all-round heroes BJ Cole and Martin Stephenson.
A long-time member of London’s finest bluegrass band, Foghorn Leghorn, Chris has run their club
at The Betsey Trotwood for the past 12 years, while for the past three decade he has played bass,
engineered and produced hundreds of recordings for others, mainly in his very own ‘North London
Stax’ recording complex, Reservoir Studios.
After being one of the driving forces behind Danny and The Champions of The World for the past
decade, he decided to cut loose and make his own solo album. With the intention of a fresh start, he
assembled a group of younger musicians to come along for the ride including his nephew Elliott on
drums and guitar maestro Jamie Alex Pope, with Celina Liesegang and Steve Huddleston on backing
vocal duty.
Holed up at Reservoir, Clarke set to realising the sounds in his head and wearing his influences on his
sleeve. From the 1960’s psychedelia of Syd Barrett and The Who to Stealers Wheel, with a
smattering of The Prefab Sprout, Nick Lowe and Wreckless Eric, Another Time has a definite and
unabashed slice of original Englishness at its heart.
Track listing:
Yesterday’s Tomorrows
All That Remains
One Last Time
Brother O Brother
On The Outside Looking In
Who Decides?
Good Times
If I Had
The Bigger Man
Let’s Blow The Whole Thing Up
The Long Way Round
GENRE: Alternative/Country/Rock
BARCODE: 684910296168
RELEASE DATE: 04/10/2024
