A Different Hat is the thirteenth solo studio album by the English singer-songwriter Paul Carrack. Recorded with The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, it is a collection mostly of cover songs, ranging from the Frank Sinatra standard "All the Way" to the Bonnie Raitt ballad "I Can't Make You Love Me". Carrack also tackled four of his own songs which he had previously recorded, heard here in new arrangements: "I Live On a Battlefield" (previously recorded as "Battlefield" on 1989's Groove Approved), "Eyes of Blue", "Love Will Keep Us Alive" and "It Ain't Over".

A Different Hat
Studio album by
Released2010
StudioAIR Studios (London, UK)
Genre
Length47:22
LabelCarrack-UK
Producer
Paul Carrack with The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra chronology
I Know That Name
(2008)
A Different Hat
(2010)
Good Feeling
(2012)

A Different Hat was originally released in 2010 on Carrack's own Carrack-UK label.

Track listing

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No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."I Think It's Going to Rain Today"Randy Newman4:30
2."Moon River"Henry Mancini, Johnny Mercer3:28
3."Don't Let the Sun Catch You Crying"Gerry Marsden, Freddie Marsden, Les Chadwick, Les Maguire3:53
4."I Can't Make You Love Me"Mike Reid, Allen Shamblin4:16
5."I Live On a Battlefield"Paul Carrack, Nick Lowe4:06
6."Eyes of Blue"Carrack4:17
7."I Don't Know Enough About You"Peggy Lee, Dave Barbour3:18
8."All the Way"Sammy Cahn, Jimmy Van Heusen4:27
9."If You Love Me"Marguerite Monnot, Geoffrey Parsons3:34
10."Love Will Keep Us Alive"Carrack, Jim Capaldi, Peter Vale4:03
11."For All We Know"J. Fred Coots, Sam Lewis3:12
12."It Ain't Over"Carrack4:20

Charts

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Chart (2011) Peak
position
UK Independent Albums (OCC)[1] 6

Personnel

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Musicians

Production

  • Peter Van Hooke – producer
  • Paul Carrack – producer
  • Geoff Foster – engineer
  • Simon Rhodes – engineer
  • Graham Bonnett – additional engineer
  • Rupert Cobb – additional engineer, Pro Tools
  • Mick Glossop – mixing
  • Ian Ross – design
  • Andrea Hunnisett – photography

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