''A Different Hat'' is the thirteenth solo

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by the English singer-songwriter

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. Recorded with

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, it is a collection mostly of cover songs, ranging from the

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standard "All the Way" to the

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ballad "I Can't Make You Love Me". Carrack also tackled four of his own songs which he had previously recorded, heard here in new arrangements: "I Live On a Battlefield" (previously recorded as "Battlefield" on 1989's '' Groove Approved''), "Eyes of Blue", "Love Will Keep Us Alive" and "It Ain't Over". ''A Different Hat'' was originally released in 2010 on Carrack's own Carrack-UK label.

Track listing

Charts

Personnel

Musicians *

– vocals, grand piano *

– orchestra * David Cullen – orchestral arrangements and conductor * Gill Townend – music preparation *

Davy Spillane Davy Spillane (born 1959 in Dublin, Ireland) is an Irish musician, songwriter and a player of uilleann pipes and low whistle. Biography Irish music At the age of 12, Spillane started playing the uilleann pipes. His father encouraged him ...

–

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Production * Peter Van Hooke – producer * Paul Carrack – producer * Geoff Foster – engineer * Simon Rhodes – engineer * Graham Bonnett – additional engineer * Rupert Cobb – additional engineer,

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– mixing * Ian Ross – design * Andrea Hunnisett – photography

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Different Hat, A 2010 albums Paul Carrack albums Royal Philharmonic Orchestra albums