Hofner Blue Notes

Hofner Blue Notes is the nineteenth studio album by British singer-songwriter Chris Rea, released in July 2003 by his own record label, Jazzee Blue.^[1][2]

The album was part of series of largely instrumental blues and jazz albums released by his label Jazzee Blue and mostly fronted by his band members,^[3][4] of which this album was preceded by Rea's eighteenth studio and instrumental album Blue Street (Five Guitars) released on the same date in 2003 (peaked as #8 at the UK Jazz & Blues Albums Chart^[5]).^[6]

The album was part of Hofner Blue Notes, a project about Höfner guitar because Rea's first electric guitar was a 1961 Höfner V3 bought from a second-hand shop while he was working in his father's ice cream factory in early 1970s, and continued with The Return of the Fabulous Hofner Bluenotes in 2008.^[7]

1. "Spy" – 5:05
2. "Expectations" – 3:59
3. "Hofner Blue Notes" – 2:52
4. "Paris in Minneapolis" – 5:05
5. "São Paulo Blue" – 4:58
6. "What Became" – 4:44
7. "Detroit" – 3:54
8. "Goodnight Joe" – 4:15
9. "Take the Mingus Train" – 4:24
10. "Alone" – 3:39
11. "Saudi Blue" – 4:06
12. "Kestrel Avenue" – 3:28

• Chris Rea – all instruments, paintings
• Kiadan Quinn – producer
• Stuart Epps – engineer
• Stewart Eales – engineer
• Mainartery – album design
• John Knowles – management
• Recorded at Sol Mill Studios (Berkshire, England)
• Mastered at The Soundmasters (London, UK)

• Hofner Blue Notes at Discogs