Robbie Patton's Orders From Headquarters

skuncles · #1 11-16-2009, 09:51 AM

On January 26, 2010 Robbie Patton's 1982 album Order's From Headquarters will be issued on CD. This album features the Stevie duet "Smiling Islands" and I think Christine is featured on the album elsewhere as well.

With the release of this album on CD, off the top of my head I think this means all of the Stevie guest albums have been issued on CD (except for the Tom Snow album).

Richard B · #2 11-16-2009, 11:08 AM

Cool.
I think 'Smiling Islands' is such a great song.
I see this Robbie Patton CD is also under the same label as Sandy Stewart's Cat Dancer recent CD release.

David · #3 11-16-2009, 12:16 PM

I could look it up, but this is generally quicker: Didn't Christine produce Patton's album following Orders? Or the album before that?

wildheart048 · #4 11-17-2009, 05:23 AM

I'm so excited! I'm trying to think of what other cds that Stevie sang on that are yet to be released on CD? Maria Vidal comes to mind, but I think most of the others have been now (or will be when this one is released!) I can't wait...thanks!

skuncles · #5 11-17-2009, 01:28 PM

Has anyone actually heard the Maria Vidal track? Someone made me a bootleg years ago (I believe it was issued on CD briefly) but I don't hear Stevie at all. Every other album she's sung on I've heard her, but not on that one.

Richard B · #6 11-17-2009, 02:00 PM

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Originally Posted by David

I could look it up, but this is generally quicker: Didn't Christine produce Patton's album following Orders? Or the album before that?

According to this bio, both.

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English singer/songwriter Robbie Patton received his break when he toured as a special guest of Fleetwood Mac in 1979 when that act was one of the hottest acts in the music world. The association proved to be even more beneficial when Patton recorded his 1981 release Distant Shores. Not only did Mac keyboardist Christine McVie play keyboards and produce the record, but guitarist Lindsey Buckingham added guitar to the track "Don't Give It Up." While the album wasn't a smash success, petering out in the lower reaches of the chart, "Don't Give It Up" was released as a single and climbed into the Top 30 during the late summer. He followed Distant Shores with another McVie-produced release, Orders From Headquarters, which was released the following year. This time, Stevie Nicks provided her vocals, performing a duet with Patton on the single "Smiling Islands." Neither the album nor single was able to achieve the same level of success, however, with Orders From Headquarters not even managing to chart. The failure of his solo release was tempered, though, with the performance of Fleetwood Mac's "Hold Me," which Patton wrote with McVie for the album Mirage. During the '80s and '90s, Patton wrote songs that appeared on albums by Jonathan Cain and Santana.
–by Tom Demalon
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Also, his first album, Distant Shores, is available via iTunes Store for only $5.99
Robbie Patton - Distant Shores

wildheart048 · #7 11-18-2009, 05:58 AM

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Originally Posted by skuncles

Has anyone actually heard the Maria Vidal track? Someone made me a bootleg years ago (I believe it was issued on CD briefly) but I don't hear Stevie at all. Every other album she's sung on I've heard her, but not on that one.

Yeah, it is the one song that you can barely hear her on ...