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 "The Young Pretender" (Dave Cousins, Rick Wakeman) – 5:50 "Hummingbird" (Cousins, Wakeman) – 3:41 "So Shall Our Love Die" (Cousins) – 3:36 "Steppes" (Wakeman) – 1:23 "October to May" (Cousins) – 3:26 "Ice Maiden" (Wakeman) – 0:42 "Higher Germanie" (Traditional) – 4:35 "Stone Cold is the Woman's Heart" (Cousins) – 4:32 "Crie du Coeur" (Wakeman) – 1:26 "All in Vain" (Cousins, Wakeman) – 3:50 "Can You Believe" (Cousins, Craig Leon, Cassell Webb) – 4:44 "Via Bencini" (Wakeman) – 2:12 "Forever Ocean Blue" (Cousins) – 3:38
Personnel Rick Wakeman – keyboards Dave Cousins – vocals, acoustic guitar, dulcimer, banjo Ric Sanders – violin Mac McGann – tipple Chas Cronk – bass guitar Tony Fernandez – drums
Recording
Hummingbird was recorded at Music Fusion Studios, Wembley.
Stuart Sawney (Recording & Mixing) Erik Jordan (Mixing) Roger Wake (Mastering)
Release history Region Date Label Format Catalog Worldwide Witchwood CD WMCD2007
References
Liner notes to CD WMCD 2007 Hummingbird
External links Hummingbird on Strawbsweb Wakeman and Cousins on Strawbsweb