| Darktown | ||||
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| Released | 26 April 1999 | |||
| Genre | Progressive rock | |||
| Length | 56:33 (Original issue) 71:39 (2013 reissue) | |||
| Label | InsideOut Music | |||
| Producer | Steve Hackett Roger King | |||
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| Allmusic |   [1] |
Darktown is the 14th studio album by English musician Steve Hackett, released in 1999. It was reissued in 2013 with 3 bonus tracks. On some copies of this reissue, the title was misspelled as "Darktwon" on the sides of the CD case.
Darktown is the last album to feature Julian Colbeck as a keyboardist, on the title track only. Colbeck had played with Hackett for much of the 1990s. Darktown shows the increasing role that Roger King would play as a part of Hackett's band, as a producer and keyboardist and later as a co-writer.
I decided at the time to express my feelings as honestly as possible without giving into commercial pressures, with the belief that personal inspiration could be most universally potent. I was re-evaluating the past, whilst contemplating possible futures. It was the beginning of a new way of looking at things.
Steve Hackett on Darktown[2]
- ^ "allmusic ((( Darktown > Review )))". www.allmusic.com. Retrieved 1 February 2010.
- ^ Hackett, Steve (2013), Darktown 2013 reissue sleeve notes, Inside Out Music