The Return Of The Fabulous Hofner Blue Notes 2008 (CD 3 The Hofner Bluenotes) The Return of the Fabulous Hofner Bluenotes was released by Chris Rea in 2008. It comprises 3CDs and 2 x 10" Vinyl records in an 80 page hardback book. It is the second album of his project, the Blue Notes (see Hofner Blue Notes (2003)). The book relates the history of The Delmonts, an imaginary band in the early '60s, who evolved into The Hofner Bluenotes. It also gives a brief history of the Hofner guitar, and its importance in the development of music in Britain. The book is lavishly illustrated with period photos and mocked up posters and newspaper cuttings about the band, together with some of Rea's paintings, and photos of Hofner guitars. The music was recorded by Rea (guitars), Colin Hodgkinson (bass) and Martin Ditcham (drums), who feature in the book, together with Niel Drinkwater and Robert Ahwai. After the album was released, Rea started a European tour. He and his band would perform as ! a quintet. The concerts were divided in three sections. In first, they would play only songs from Delmonts (CD1), then some blues songs from Fabulous Hofner Blue Notes (CD2), and in the third part Rea's greatest hits (like: The Road to Hell, Josephine, On the Beach ...). She picks up the lost souls Kills their fear And takes them home. She wraps them in tenderlove And she mends their broken bones. When Janice smiles I swear the angels sing There's a lucky soul On every road she's been So when the
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