No Blue Thing
| No Blue Thing | ||||
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| Studio album by Ray Lynch | ||||
| Released | August 15, 1989 | |||
| Genre |
Instrumental Adult Alternative | |||
| Length | 39:21 | |||
| Label |
Ray Lynch Productions BMG / Windham Hill Records | |||
| Producer | Ray Lynch Productions | |||
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| Allmusic |   [1] |
No Blue Thing is Ray Lynch’s third album, and has won two Billboard Awards; one for Album of the Year and the second, for Artist of the Year in its genre.[2]
Album
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"Clouds Below Your Knees"
 Clouds Below Your Knees from the album No Blue Thing. No Blue Thing won two Billboard Awards; Album of the Year and Artist of the Year in its genre. "Evenings, Yes"
Evenings, Yes, an all acoustic composition from Lynch’s third album No Blue Thing. |
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Track listing
- "No Blue Thing" – 5:35
- "Clouds Below Your Knees" – 4:40
- "Here & Never Found" – 4:44
- "Drifted in a Deeper Land" – 7:22
- "Homeward at Last" – 3:38
- "Evenings, Yes" – 4:52
- "The True Spirit of Mom & Dad" – 8:05
Personnel
All music composed, arranged, and produced by Ray Lynch.
- Ray Lynch – keyboards, classical guitar
- Tom Canning – "guitar" keyboards on "Clouds Below Your Knees"
- Timothy Day – flute
- Julie Ann Giacobassi – oboe and English horn
- Amy Hiraga – violin
- David Kadarauch and Peter Wyrick – cello
- Basil Vendryes and Geraldine Walther – viola
Production
- Mastered by Bernie Grundman (Bernie Grundman Mastering, Hollywood, California)
- Mixed by Ray Lynch and Daniel Ryman at Ray Lynch Productions studio except for “Evenings, Yes” (Recorded at Different Fur, San Francisco; engineered by Howard Johnston; mixed at Mobius, San Francisco)
Sheet music
Ray Lynch has produced a piano anthology, Ray Lynch Anthology, featuring selected pieces from his five albums. The book features a short interview and presents each piece in standard notation for both hands. The Anthology includes four compositions from No Blue Thing: No Blue Thing, Here & Never Found, Homeward at Last and Evenings, Yes.