The Alan Parsons Project That Never Was

Eric Woolfson sings The Alan Parsons Project That Never Was
Studio album by Eric Woolfson
Released	April 6, 2009
Recorded	October 2008
Genre	Progressive rock
Length	42:51
Label	Limelight Records
Producer	Eric Woolfson
Eric Woolfson chronology
Poe: More Tales of Mystery and Imagination (2003) Eric Woolfson sings The Alan Parsons Project That Never Was (2009)

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Eric Woolfson sings The Alan Parsons Project That Never Was is an album by the progressive rock musician Eric Woolfson, co-creator with Alan Parsons of The Alan Parsons Project, as well as main songwriter and manager of the band. Released in 2009, this was Woolfson's final album before he died of cancer in December of that year.^[2] The album includes songs that remained unreleased since the Project time for various reasons; however, as Woolfson himself remarks in the booklet, Parsons' dislike for some of Woolfson's compositions would have often caused them to be excluded from a Project album in its very early stages - such as, for example, "Steal Your Heart Away", an "unashamedly commercial" song with a conventionally sentimental lyric, which Parsons, in Woolfson's words, would have absolutely detested.^[3] "Somewhere in the Audience" and "Immortal" are slightly re-arranged and re-recorded versions of two of Woolfson's demos for his 2003 musical about Edgar Allan Poe; the final versions of these songs, sung by the musical's protagonist Steve Balsamo, are featured on the album Poe: More Tales of Mystery and Imagination. "Train to Wuxi" was the original version of "Train to Freedom", which is also included (with different lyrics) in the Poe musical and features Woolfson's one and only guitar solo.