Scarlet and Other Stories


Scarlet and Other Stories is the second studio album by All About Eve. It was held to be considerably darker both in tone and lyrics than their first album, All About Eve. The relationship between lead singer Julianne Regan and guitarist Tim Bricheno broke down during the album's recording and production, and Regan later said that she hadn't wept as much in her life as she had during the making of this album.
Scarlet and Other Stories reached No. 9 in the UK charts with three Top 40 singles resulting from it. The album spent 4 weeks in the UK top 100 album charts, and is certified Gold with in excess of 100,000 units being sold.

Track listing

Bold indicates a single release.
All songs written and composed by Tim Bricheno, Andy Cousin, Mark Price and Julianne Regan except where noted.
  1. "Road to Your Soul"
  2. "Dream Now"
  3. "Gold and Silver"
  4. "Scarlet"
  5. "December"
  6. "Blind Lemon Sam"
  7. "More Than the Blues"
  8. "Tuesday's Child"
  9. "Pieces of Our Heart"
  10. "Hard Spaniard"
  11. "The Empty Dancehall"
  12. "Only One Reason"
  13. "The Pearl Fishermen"

Re-issue

Scarlet and Other Stories was re-released in 2015 as a two disc format and audio download, as part of Universal UMC "Re-Presents" series.

Disc One

  1. Road to Your Soul
  2. Dream Now
  3. Gold and Silver
  4. Scarlet
  5. December
  6. Blind Lemon Sam
  7. More Than the Blues
  8. Tuesday's Child
  9. Pieces of Our Heart
  10. Hard Spaniard
  11. The Empty Dancehall
  12. Only One Reason
  13. The Pearl Fishermen
  14. Road to Your Soul
  15. December
  16. Drowning
  17. The Witch's Promise
  18. Paradise
Re-issues notes for disc one: tracks 1, 3, 5, 7, 8, 10, 11, 12, 14, 15 & 16 by Bricheno, Cousin, Regan, Price ; tracks 2, 4, 6, 9, 13 & 18 by Bricheno, Cousin, Regan; track 17 by Ian Anderson is a Jethro Tull cover.

Disc two

  1. Theft
  2. Different Sky
  3. The Dreamer
  4. Our Summer
  5. Candy Tree
  6. Tuesday's Child
  7. In the Clouds
  8. Never Promise
  9. Scarlet
  10. More Than the Blues
  11. Road to Your Soul
  12. The Pearl Fishermen
  13. Blind Lemon Sam
  14. The Empty Dancehall
  15. December
  16. The Pearl Fishermen
  17. Only One Reason
Re-issue notes for disc two: tracks 1 & 2 by All About Eve. Tracks 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 12, 13, & 16 by Bricheno, Cousin, Regan; tracks 10, 11, 14 & 15 by Bricheno, Cousin, Regan, Price; track 3 by Cousin, Regan, Price, Willson-Piper; track 3 first appeared on the third All About Eve album, Touched by Jesus.

Personnel

;All About Eve
  • Julianne Regan – vocals, keyboards
  • Tim Bricheno – guitars, keyboards, banjo
  • Andy Cousin – bass, keyboards
  • Mark Price – drums, percussion
;Additional personnel