CD: 838 965-2
RELEASE DATE: 1989
LABEL:Mercury

01. Road to Your Soul
02. Dream Now
03. Gold and Silver
04. Scarlet
05. December
06. Blind Lemon Sam
07. More Than the Blues
08. Tuesday's Child
09. Pieces of Our Heart*
10. Hard Spaniard*
11. The Empty Dancehall
12. Only One Reason
13. The Pearl Fisherman

Combining light and shade, metallic and rustic, folk and rock - All About Eve's second album Scarlet and Other Stories is a gem. From the haunting Road To Your Soul onwards, Julianne Regan's bewitching vocals take you on a memorable journey. Scarlet breathes honesty, December poignancy and Tuesday's Child the echoes of fairy stories long since departed. As the journey continues the listener is invited to the worlds of the ghostly Empty Dancehall, the romantically fractured Pieces Of Our Heart before the dark, dramatic Only One Reason kicks in with its roaring guitar solo. Juliannne's haunting chorus line "If there's Only One Reason to live in this world, ask the lonely and the dying" still splinters breaking hearts over a decade after its initial release. Finally, the swooping, diving Pearl Fisherman, the story of a love triangle, completes the album with complete perfection. An album of superb production and great musicianship. Tim Bricheno's guitar work appears both fragile and wistful on some tracks as well as crunchy and driven on others. Brilliant!