Hummingbird (Rick Wakeman and Dave Cousins album)

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.

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
Hummingbird (2002) Wakeman & Cousins Live (2004)

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

Track listing

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

• 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	2002 (2002)	Witchwood	CD	WMCD2007

References

• Liner notes to CD WMCD 2007 Hummingbird

External links

• Hummingbird on Strawbsweb
• Wakeman and Cousins on Strawbsweb