| Ridgeriders | ||||
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| Released | September 1999 25 June 2001 | |||
| Recorded | 1999 January 1995 ("Close Your Eyes") | |||
| Studio | Tone Deaf Studios, Preston, and Central Studios, Southport | |||
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| Length | 41:31 | |||
| Label | Blueprint records / HTD Records / Talking Elephant | |||
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Ridgeriders is a 1999 studio album based on music from the TV series Ridge Riders. The album is a collaboration album between Phil Beer, Ashley Hutchings and Chris While.[1] It also guest features The Albion Band and Julie Matthews.
The musicians later toured much of the album in January 2001, with one concert subsequently released as "Ridgeriders" In Concert in November 2001.[2]
The album is a concept album, as it is a "journey" album that would be played on a journey around Southern England, making it similar to another of Beer's albums, Show of Hands' The Path.[citation needed]
Similar to Beer's older album The Works, the album's release is of question. Whilst the TV series began in 1994, the album was released in September 1999, and mostly recorded the same year in Preston and Southport. The album was re-released in June 2001 by Talking Elephant, who would release the aforementioned live album later that year.[citation needed]
"Close Your Eyes" was actually recorded in 1995, and appeared on The Albion Band's album Albion Heart that year.[3]