Hummingbird (Rick Wakeman and Dave Cousins album)

2002 studio album by Rick Wakeman and Dave Cousins

Hummingbird

Studio album by

Rick Wakeman and Dave Cousins

Released| 2002 (2002)
Recorded| 2002 (2002)
Genre| folk rock, progressive rock
Length| 43:35
Label| Witchwood Media
Rick Wakeman and Dave Cousins chronology
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(2002)  | Wakeman & Cousins Live
(2004)

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Hummingbird is a studio album by Rick Wakeman and Dave Cousins. The songs are a mixture of jointly-composed originals, reworkings of songs from Strawbs albums and Dave Cousins' solo album Two Weeks Last Summer, together with Wakeman instrumental compositions presented as codas to the Cousins songs.

The album cover is painted by Wakeman's girlfriend, Italian artist Alina Bencini.

## Track listing

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1. "The Young Pretender" (Dave Cousins, Rick Wakeman) – 5:50
2. "Hummingbird" (Cousins, Wakeman) – 3:41
3. "So Shall Our Love Die" (Cousins) – 3:36
4. "Steppes" (Wakeman) – 1:23
5. "October to May" (Cousins) – 3:26
6. "Ice Maiden" (Wakeman) – 0:42
7. "Higher Germanie" (Traditional) – 4:35
8. "Stone Cold is the Woman's Heart" (Cousins) – 4:32
9. "Crie du Coeur" (Wakeman) – 1:26
10. "All in Vain" (Cousins, Wakeman) – 3:50
11. "Can You Believe" (Cousins, Craig Leon, Cassell Webb) – 4:44
12. "Via Bencini" (Wakeman) – 2:12
13. "Forever Ocean Blue" (Cousins) – 3:38

## Personnel

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* Rick Wakeman – keyboards
* Dave Cousins – vocals, acoustic guitar, dulcimer, banjo
* Ric Sanders – violin
* Mac McGann – tipple
* Chas Cronk – bass guitar
* Tony Fernandez – drums

## Recording

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Hummingbird was recorded at Music Fusion Studios, Wembley.

Stuart Sawney (Recording & Mixing) Erik Jordan (Mixing) Roger Wake (Mastering)

## Release history

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Region  | Date  | Label  | Format  | Catalog

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Worldwide  | 2002 (2002) | Witchwood  | CD | WMCD2007

## References

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1. ^ James, Jimmy (2011). "Hummingbird - Rick Wakeman | AllMusic". allmusic.com. Retrieved 20 August 2011.

* Liner notes to CD WMCD 2007 Hummingbird

## External links

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* Hummingbird on Strawbsweb
* Wakeman and Cousins on Strawbsweb

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Dave Cousins

Studio albums|

* Two Weeks Last Summer (1972)
* Old School Songs (1979)
* Hummingbird (2002)
* The Boy in the Sailor Suit (2007)
* Secret Paths (2008)

Live albums|

* Duochrome (2008)

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* Strawbs

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