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Release Date: 31 October 2025
Label: Cherry Red
Packaging Type: Clamshell
No of Units: 7
Barcode: 5013929118096
Description
• Extensive seven-CD box set following the career of English singer-songwriter Thea Gilmore.
• Covering her recordings from 2008 to 2015.
• With sleeve notes by Record Collector’s Daryl Easlea describing the making of this collection of albums, housed in a box this is the perfect staring point for anyone interested in her career.
Released in 2008, 'Liejacker’ was Thea Gilmore's eighth album featuring contributions from Joan Baez, Dave McCabe, and Erin McKeown. Following in 2009 was Gilmore's first live album, 'Recorded Delivery’, with recordings taken from UK shows during 2006 and 2008, with the first half of the album being acoustic and the second half electric, with a full band.
Thea Gilmore rounded out 2009 with the release of an album of winter-themed songs, 'Strange Communion’, featuring eight originals penned by Gilmore with Nigel Stonier, as well as two cover versions – Yoko Ono's 'Listen, the Snow is Falling’ and Elvis Costello's 'The St. Stephen's Day Murders’.
Thea Gilmore entered the studio in 2011 with producer Stonier and recorded the entire set of tracks found on Bob Dylan's original release of 'John Wesley Harding’. The album – also titled 'John Wesley Harding’.
In 2013, Thea Gilmore released 'Regardless’, to critical acclaim and much exposure via BBC Radio 2. In May 2015 'Ghosts and Graffiti’ was released; a retrospective with four new songs and six newly recorded versions of songs from her back catalogue.
Tracklisting
DISC ONE
Liejacker
1 Old Soul
2 Black Letter
3 Dance In New York
4 Rosie
5 Roll On
6 Icarus Wind
7 The Wrong Side
8 Slow Journey
9 And You Shall Know No Other God
10 When I Get Back to Shore
11 Breathe
12 The Lower Road
BONUS TRACKS
13 You Spin Me Right Round
14 Come Up with Me - Single
15 Honesty Box - Single
DISC TWO
Recorded Delivery
1 Old Soul
2 Concrete
3 You And Frank Sinatra
4 Rosie
5 The Lower Road
6 If You Miss Me at the Back of the Bus
7 Icarus Wind
8 Have You Heard?
9 Juliet
10 Everybody's Numb
11 This Girl Is Taking Bets
12 My Own Private Riot
13 Rags And Bones
14 When I Get Back to Shore
15 Inverigo
DISC THREE
Strange Communion
1 Sol Invictus
2 Thea Gilmore's Midwinter Toast
3 Cold Coming
4 That'll Be Christmas
5 Listen, The Snow Is Falling
6 Drunken Angel
7 The St Stephens Day Murders
8 December In New York
9 Book Of Christmas (Includes
10 Excerpt From 'Autumn Journal')
11 Old December
BONUS TRACKS
12 December
13 That'll Be Christmas - Single Mix
DISC FOUR
Murphy's Heart
1 This Town
2 God's Got Nothing on You
3 Due Douth
4 Jazz Hands
5 Love's The Greatest
6 Instrument of Rage
7 Automatic Blue
8 Coffee And Roses
9 You're The Radio
10 Teach Me to Be Bad
11 Not Alone
12 How The Love Gets In Mexico
13 Wondrous Thing
14 Teach Me to Be Bad
15 Favourite Absentee
16 Several Angels
17 Something to Sing About
DISC FIVE
John Wesley Harding
1 John Wesley Harding
2 As I Went Out One Morning
3 I Dreamed I Saw St Augustine
4 All Along the Watchtower
5 The Ballad of Frankie Lee and Judas Priest
6 Drifter's Escape
7 Dear Landlord
8 I Am a Lonesome Hobo
9 I Pity the Poor Immigrant
10 The Wicked Messenger
11 Down Along the Cove
12 I'll Be Your Baby Tonight
DISC SIX
Regardless
1 Something To Sing About
2 This Is How You Find the Way
3 Regardless
4 Spit And Shine
5 I Will Not Disappoint You
6 Start As We Mean to Go On
7 Punctuation
8 Love Came Looking for Me
9 This Road
10 Let It Be Known
11 My Friend Goodbye
BONUS TRACKS
12 Regardless - Radio Mix
13 Regardless - Radio Mix Instrumental
14 Beautiful Day (This Is How You Find the Way) - Single
15 Start as We Mean to Go On - Instrumental
16 Love Came Looking for Me - Instrumental
DISC SEVEN
Ghosts & Graffiti Copper
1 Start As We Mean to Go On
2 This Girl is Taking Bets
3 Holding Your Hand
4 My Voice
5 London
6 Coming Back to You
7 Love Came Looking for Me
8 Inch By Inch
9 Glistening Bay
10 Sol Invictus
11 Razor Valentine
12 Old Soul
13 Live Out Loud
14 Juliet
15 Don't Set Foot Over the Railway Track
16 Wrong With You
17 You're The Radio
18 Inverigo
BONUS TRACKS
19 Coming Back to You - Single Version
West, Bruce & Laing
Various Artists
The Residents
The Pentangle
The Fall
The Fall
Thea Gilmore
Sheena Easton
Thea Gilmore
