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''Stripped to the Bare Bones'' is a 1999 live acoustic album by English songwriter and musician Steve Harley. ==Background== The album consists of fourteen live unplugged tracks, which were recorded live and acoustic at the Jazz Cafe in London, during March 1998. The album features Harley on acoustic guitar and harmonica, as well as Nick Pynn on acoustic lead guitar, dulcimer, mando-cello and violin. In 1997, Harley first performed some casual shows at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival consisting of music and chat about his career, accompanied by Pynn. The success of these led to Harley and Pynn playing over a hundred dates in 1998, performing under the explanatory tour-title "Stripped to the Bare Bones". This tour included 54 concerts across the UK alone, and around 90 songs were rehearsed for use on the tour. Tying in with the tour was the release of ''More Than Somewhat – The Very Best of Steve Harley'', the mid-price re-issue of most of the early catalogue, and this live album entitled ''Stripped to the Bare Bones''. Although Harley initially had preference of performing with a full rock band, he was invited to do an acoustic show at Castlemilk Festival in Glasgow. After thinking about the offer, Harley took a chance and accepted. He ended up really enjoying the acoustic-format, and got a taste for that type of performance.〔Stripped to the Bare Bones CD booklet〕 The tour and album title originated from the fact that the majority of Harley's songs are penned with a piano or guitar, and so they can easily be performed with an acoustic guitar.〔 The album was recorded using Sensible Music Ltd. and an ADAT system. Of the fourteen tracks, one was a new song "Only You". The song later appeared on the 2006 compilation ''The Cockney Rebel – A Steve Harley Anthology'', but has never been recorded in the studio. As the first acoustic album from Harley, two others would follow; ''Acoustic and Pure: Live'' in 2002, and ''Anytime! (A Live Set)'' in 2004. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Stripped to the Bare Bones」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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