Robb Johnson - A Reasonable History of Impossible Demands: The Damage to Date 1986-2013
Described by Folk Roots as “a creator of some of the most potent songs of the last decade,” Robb Johnson is one of the England's finest living songwriters. Over a prolific recording career of more than 30 albums, his songs have found their way into the repertoires of musicians such as folk legend Roy Bailey and cabaret diva Barb Jungr. A Reasonable History of Impossible Demands, Johnson’s first career retrospective, distills the pubs, pavements, and pickets he’s played along the way into a moving collection of songs spanning politics, protest, and above all, what it means to be human. Johnson calls the deluxe box set “part journal, part diary, part testament” and it proves he's not slowing down anytime soon. Featuring 92 songs on 5 CDs, and includes both previously released classics as well as 10 unreleased tracks.
"One of Britain's most challenging songwriters."—The Daily Telegraph
“Britain’s finest songwriter since Richard Thompson.”—Venue
Track Listing:
- Upstairs-Downstairs
- Rosa's Lovely Daughters
- I Close My Eyes
- Evergreen
- Another Cold Saturday
- 6B Go Swimming
- Sunday Morning St. Denis
- Fairy Tales in Feltham
- Overnight
- Winter Turns To Spring
- The Last Time I Saw Paris
- You Don't Have To Say Goodbye
- Gliders For Tim
- More Than Enough
- Blame the Snow for Falling
- I Remember Managua
- Small Revolutions
- A Bird Is Singing
- Captain Swing
- Boxing Day
- The Animals Song
- The Herald of Free Enterprise
- Vic Williams
- Undefeated
- Red & Green
- When Saturday Came
- Three Minutes Silence
- We All Said Stop the War
- This Is What Democracy Looks Like
- Punk Rock Jubilee
- Northwest Frontier
- Inexcusable
- Little Vinnie Jones
- Alice Annie Wheeldon
- Ding Dong Thatch
- Love Takes No Prisoners
- The Night Café
- Magic Sam
- When Harry Took Me to See Ypres
- Au Depart
- Changing the Guards
- Icebergs
- Barricades
- The Big Wheel
- Dear Andy
- I Apologize
- At the Siege of Madrid
- Invisible People
- The Young Man with the Girlfriend & Guitar
- My Mother Taught Me How to Waltz
- Breakfast in Chemnitz
- Clockwork Music
- Magic
- Justice In Knightsbridge
- Not in My Name
- Remember This
- Lottery Land
- Martha in the Mirror
- Anarchy in Hackney
- Hands Off My Friends
- You & This City
- Ugly Town
- UK Talking
- On Highway 5
- The Prince & Private Gentle
- Even Steve McQueen
- I am Not at War
- Win, Lose or Draw
- Falling Down with You
- Karl Marx City Blues
- Happilly Ever After
- 21st Century Blues
- Real Cool Purple Shirt
- The Beautiful Dark
- Don't Close the Bar
- Stand Clear!
- The London Eye
- Anyday
- Almost the Homecoming Queen
- Man Walks into a Pub
- The Wrong Train
- A Place in the Country
- Pennypot Lane
- Rupert Says
- Dreams
- Cauliflower Curry
- No Time to Say Goodbye
- Bring Down the Moon
- The Rottweiler Man
- Downhearted
- Be Reasonable
- Here Comes That Miracle Again
Catalog Number: DIRT-CD-0076
UPC: 877746007620