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Songs From The Novel Greatest Hits

by Kathryn Williams

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Common Ground 04:15
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Architect 02:53
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3.
Living Free 03:51
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4.
I Wrote You A Love Song 03:01
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5.
Just Us Two 02:12
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Road Of Shadows 02:44
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Don't Step On The Cracks 03:02
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She Wears A Dress 02:08
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Lilies 03:30
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Brightest Star 02:48
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11.
In This Garden 03:18
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12.
Queen Of The Snow 03:20
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Home 02:25
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14.
Edge Of The World 03:50
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15.
Gethsemane 05:22
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16.
When Morning Comes 03:48
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about

Mercury-nominated singer-songwriter Kathryn Williams has announced that she will release a ‘soundtrack album’ to a brand new novel by best-selling author Laura Barnett, that follows the life of a fictional singer. Greatest Hits, the hotly-anticipated follow-up to Barnett’s novel The Versions of Us, will be published on 15th June 2017 alongside the brand new album by Kathryn Williams – Songs from the Novel Greatest Hits, which will be released the following day. The original songs are written by Kathryn Williams, with lyrics by Laura Barnett and Kathryn Williams, and will be released through One Little Indian.

Laura Barnett’s Barnett’s acclaimed debut novel The Versions of Us was a Number One Bestseller and has sold over 200,000 copies in the UK alone, while Kathryn Williams enjoyed huge success with her Sylvia Plath tribute album Hypoxia and her most recent collaborative album with jazz musician Anthony Kerr – Resonator. The artist teamed up with Romeo Stodart of The Magic Numbers to produce Songs from the Novel Greatest Hits, while his sister Michele Stodart contributed instrumentation to the record. The siblings also both contributed their signature vocals to the richly diverse album.

The novel Greatest Hits tells the story of Cass Williams, a fictional musical artist who enjoyed huge success from the early '70s, only to retire mysteriously at the height of her fame. Two decades later, she is spending a single day in her recording studio, picking out tracks for a very personal Greatest Hits album. Each chapter of Greatest Hits opens with one of these songs and takes the reader back through Cass’s life, from her childhood, through her earliest days as a singer, to the terrible crisis that caused her to flee her own life. The accompanying album by Kathryn Williams brings each song chosen for Cass’s Greatest Hits record to life, with every track written and recorded in the style of the corresponding era.

Williams isn't new to unlikely collaborations. The prolific musician has previously worked and toured with Ed Harcourt, John Martyn, Chris Difford (Squeeze), Bombay Bicycle Club, David Gray, Ray Lamontagne, and made two further albums as a member of bands The Crayonettes and The Pond. Now she has teamed up with author Laura Barnett to create something totally distinctive and inspiring.

Talking about the project, the respected singer said: “After making my album Hypoxia inspired by The Bell Jar (which was born out of a commission to celebrate Sylvia Plath) I didn’t think that I would be collaborating with another author so soon – and a living one to boot!

"I got a call from Laura after she had heard me on Cerys Matthews’ BBC6Music show talking about Hypoxia. She asked me if I was up for working on a parallel project to bring her fictional songwriter’s songs to life. Since then, we have co-written a group of 16 songs, cried, laughed and become close friends. It has been a joyous project of immersing ourselves into the character, the ups and downs of her career and her personal life.”

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released June 16, 2017

Lilies -

Neill Macoll - e-bow, electric guitar
Romeo Stodart - acoustic guitar, piano
Kathryn Williams - vocals

Common Ground -

CJ Jones - drums
Michele Stodart - bass guitar & percussion
Romeo Stodart - acoustic guitar & piano
Neill Macoll - electric guitar
Kate St John - oboe
Kathryn Williams - vocals

I Wrote You A Love Song -

CJ Jones - drums & timpani
Neill Macoll - guitaret
Kate St John - saxophone
Romeo Stodart- all guitars, bass, piano, string machine & vocals
Kathryn Williams - vocals

Living Free -

CJ Jones - congas
Neill Macoll -electric guitar & high strung acoustic
Michele Stodart - bass & percussion
Romeo Stodart - acoustic guitars & vocals
Kathryn Williams - vocals

Don't Step On The Cracks -

Romeo Stodart - hammond organ, piano & electric guitar
Kathryn Williams - percussive piano & vocals

Brightest Star -

CJ Jones - drums
Michele Stodart - bass guitar & percussion
Romeo Stodart - electric & acoustic guitar
Andy Bruce - piano
Kathryn Williams - vocals

Gethsamane -

CJ Jones - drums & timpani
Michele Stodart - bass guitar, acoustic guitar, percussion & backing vocals
Romeo Stodart - acoustic guitar
Neill Macoll - mandolin
Kate St John - accordion
Andy Bruce - hammond organ & piano
Laura Barnett - backing vocals
Kathryn Williams - acoustic guitar & vocals

She Wears A Dress -

CJ Jones - drums
Michele Stodart - bass guitar & percussion
Romeo Stodart -electric guitars & string machine
Neill Macoll - autoharp
Kate St John - saxophone
Andy Bruce - wurlitzer & piano
Kathryn Williams - vocals

When Morning Comes -

Romeo Stodart - acoustic guitar
Kathryn Williams - vocal

Edge Of The World -

Romeo Stodart - piano
Kathryn Williams - vocal


Road Of Shadows -

CJ Jones - drums
Michele Stodart - bass guitar & percussion
Romeo Stodart - electric guitar
Neill Macoll - electric guitar
Andy Bruce - hammond organ
Kathryn Williams - vocals

Home -

Michele Stodart - bass guitar, all percussion & backing vocals
Romeo Stodart - marimba, piano & acoustic guitars
Kathryn Williams - hammond organ, vocals

In This Garden -

CJ Jones - drums
Michele Stodart - bass guitar & percussion
Romeo Stodart - electric guitar
Andy Bruce - piano
Kathryn Williams - vocals

Architect -

Michele Stodart - bass guitar
Kathryn Williams - drum machine & vocals


Just Us Two -

CJ Jones - drums
Michele Stodart - bass guitar, whistles, bell & percussion
Romeo Stodart - acoustic guitars & backing vocals
Andy Bruce - muted piano
Kathryn Williams - the twanger, bell & vocals

Queen Of The Snow -

CJ Jones - drums
Michele Stodart - acoustic guitar & percussion
Romeo Stodart - bass, acoustic guitar, piano
Neill Macoll - marxophone
Kate St John - cor anglais
Kathryn Williams - toy piano & vocals


Produced by Romeo Stodart
Engineered & Mixed by Dave Lynch
Additional engineering by Trevor Michael
All songs recorded at Echo Zoo Studios in Eastbourne.

writing credits for the songs -
All songs written by Kathryn Williams & Laura Barnett except where noted *


*Living Free' & 'I Wrote You A Love Song' kathryn williams romeo stodart laura barnett
*'Home' kathryn williams michele stodart laura barnett
*Road Of Shadows, kathryn williams polly paulusma michele stodart laura barnett

Horn arrangements on 'I Wrote You A Love Song' by Romeo Stodart
'She Wears A Dress' - Romeo stodart & Kate St John






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Kathryn Williams is an English singer-songwriter who to date has released fourteen studio albums, written and arranged for a multitude of artists and was nominated for the 2000 Mercury Music Prize.

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