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Head Like a Rock is a 1994 concept album released in July, 1994.[2] by Ian McNabb.[3] The album was nominated for the 1994 Mercury Music Prize and was McNabb's second solo album.[4] The album was recorded in Los Angeles with the backing band Crazy Horse. The album peaked at No. 29 on the official UK charts.[5]

Head Like a Rock
Studio album by Ian McNabb
Released	4 July 1994
Recorded	1993
Studio	Red Zone Studios, Burbank, California; Mayfair Studios, Regents Park, London
Genre	Rock[1]
Length	67:03
Label	This Way Up
Producer	Robert Ian McNabb, John Porter
Ian McNabb chronology
Truth and Beauty (1993) Head Like a Rock (1994) Merseybeast (1996)
Singles from Merseybeast
"You Must Be Prepared to Dream" Released: June 1994 "Go into the Light" Released: September 1994

Late in 2012, Ian revealed that his first three studio albums were to be re-released as 'expanded editions'; subsequently, in early December 2013, 'Head Like a Rock (Expanded edition)' was announced on Amazon with a scheduled release date of January 28, 2013: "This expanded version has been re-mastered by Ian himself and is a testament to the great album it was, enhanced with upgraded packaging and a bonus disc of the B-sides that came with the assorted singles. This is a great addition to the canon of Ian's work"[6]

Track listing

All tracks composed by Ian McNabb

1. "Fire Inside My Soul" (8:35)
2. "You Must Be Prepared to Dream" (6:57)
3. "Child Inside a Father" (9:02)
4. "Still Got the Fever" (7:29)
5. "Potency"(4:38)
6. "Go Into the Light" (4:08)
7. "As a Life Goes By" (4:42)
8. "Sad Strange Solitary Catholic Mystic" (4:45)
9. "This Time Is Forever"(5:38)
10. "May You Always" (10:51)

Personnel

• Ian McNabb - guitar, vocals
• John Porter - acoustic guitar, keyboards; dobro on "As a Life Goes By"
• Billy Talbot - bass, backing vocals
• Ralph Molina - drums, backing vocals; co-lead vocals on "Child Inside a Father"
• Tommy Eyre - organ; piano on "This Time is Forever"; synthesizer and string arrangement on "Sad Strange Solitary Catholic Mystic"
• James Hutchinson - bass
• Joseph Modeliste - drums
• Tony Braunagel - percussion
• Greg Leisz - pedal steel guitar; lap steel on "Potency"
• Scarlet Rivera - violin on "Potency" and "Sad Strange Solitary Catholic Mystic"
• Roy Corkill - acoustic guitar, bass
• Mike "Tone" Hamilton - rhythm guitar, backing vocals
• Nick Warren - keyboards on "Still Got the Fever" and "This Time is Forever"
• Martin Tillman - cello on "Potency" and "Sad Strange Solitary Catholic Mystic"
• Marty Grebb - alto saxophone on "Go Into the Light"
• Maxi Anderson, Mona Lisa Young, Terry Young - backing vocals

Technical

• Joe McGrath - engineer
• Ian McNabb, Pete Schwier - mixing
• Phil Smee - design
• Theo Westenberger - front cover photography of Reggie J. Trickpus (Alan Ende Ventriloquist Collection)

References

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