Shipbuilding (album)

Shipbuilding
Studio album / Live album by
Tasmin Archer
Released1994
Recorded1993
Genre
LabelSBK[1]
ProducerJohn Hughes (track 8), Julian Mendelsohn (tracks 1-4)
Tasmin Archer chronology
Great Expectations
(1992) 		Shipbuilding
(1994) 		Bloom
(1996)

Shipbuilding is a mini album by the English singer Tasmin Archer, released in the US in 1994.[2][3] Archer decided to follow up her successful 1992 debut Great Expectations with an EP of four covers of songs written by Elvis Costello, which was released in January 1994 in the singer's homeland of the UK. The four-track EP peaked at No. 40 on the UK Singles Chart.[4] Costello admired the covers.[5]

SBK Records, Archer's label in North America, decided to release the EP as a full eight-track album instead, and to fill the space they included four live tracks.[6] The eight-track album was not released in the UK.

  1. ^ Perone, James E. (August 11, 1998). "Elvis Costello: A Bio-bibliography". Greenwood Publishing Group – via Google Books.
  2. ^ "Tasmin Archer". Trouser Press. Retrieved 11 August 2022.
  3. ^ "Tasmin Archer Biography, Songs, & Albums". AllMusic.
  4. ^ "TASMIN ARCHER | full Official Chart History | Official Charts Company". www.officialcharts.com.
  5. ^ Robbins, Ira (13 Mar 1994). "THE IRONY AND THE ECSTASY". Fanfare. Newsday. p. 10.
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