The Blanco Y Negro Years

2015 five CD set. After two albums with Fairground Attraction and a solo album, Eddi Reader signed with Geoff Travis' Blanco y Negro label and recorded the three albums in this box between 1994 and 1998. Collaborating with Fairground Attraction's Mark Nevin and The Bible's Boo Hewerdine on Top 5 album Eddi Reader produced the singles Patience Of Angels and Joke (I'm Laughing), and won Eddi the Best Female Singer Brit Award for 1994. Candyfloss And Medicine and Angels & Electricity contained songs co-written with keyboard player/co-producer Teddy Borowiecki as well as more songs by Hewerdine. The two bonus CDs contain the many non-album singles b-sides, including covers of songs by Paul Buchanan (of The Blue Nile), Ray Davies, Ivor Cutler and the Trash Can Sinatras, as a well as a collaboration with Jools Holland and his orchestra. The booklet contains all the credits and lyrics, and brand new annotation by Colin Irwin.