STEVE HOWE
Follows Up re-release of
Portraits Of Bob Dylan with An
EP of Previously Unreleased Tracks
Fans will be happy to know that to follow up the release of Portraits Of Bob Dylan on 12th September, Steve Howe will issue Signals Crossed, an E.P including three previously unreleased interpretations of Bob Dylan songs. It will feature I Want You, One Too Many Mornings and Mama, You`ve Been On My Mind. It will include appearances by Geoff Downes, Dylan Howe, Stephanie Sounds and Paul K Joyce.
The EP will be available as a white vinyl 10” one sided and mirror backed limited to 500 copies worldwide. It will also be available as a download. It will be released on 5th December 2025. You can pre-order the vinyl here: https://lnk.to/joLdy9
Steve Howe: I recorded ‘I Want You’ before starting the released Portraits Of Bob Dylan tracks, then I recorded two alternative versions of songs from the album in different styles. This version of ‘One Too Many Mornings’ wasn’t in the right key for Phoebe Snow, who sang beautifully to an acoustic version on the released album. This version gives it an electric setting, taking a little from Bob’s ‘Hard Rain’ version. I sang Mama, You’ve Been On My Mind on the original release, slow and a little mournful but here has a more upbeat and optimistic flavour. With the vocal harmonies and Dylans drumming, these tracks retain the mood of what I wanted to explore in 2000, songs about getting your Signals Crossed
Track Listing:
1. I Want You
2. One Too Many Mornings
3. Mama, You’ve Been On My Mind.
Steve Howe: What I loved about it was having the chance to arrange them as I wasn’t going to copy what Dylan had done; I wanted to bring a little bit more to it.
Steve Howe: The Portraits idea was always a sort of pipe dream, and I originally recorded one song to start the project, and I thought, this will be good, I’ll do lots of Bob
ABOUT STEVE HOWE
Steve Howe is a highly influential guitarist born in London in 1947. He is best known for his groundbreaking work with Progressive Rock legends Yes, recording the classic albums Close To The Edge, Fragile, Tales From Topographic Oceans and Relayer with the most recent being 2023`s Mirror To The Sky.
Howe`s early recording career began in the `60`s with The Syndicats and Tomorrow before joining Yes in 1970, making his debut appearance on The Yes Album in 1971 where he has, over several periods with the band, recorded 19 studio albums.
His unique style embodies an innovative blend of Classical, Jazz, Folk and Rock influences which has seen him play an array of guitars and stringed instruments which brought a unique sound to his complex compositions.
On a hiatus from Yes, Howe formed supergroup Asia with Carl Palmer (ELP), John Wetton (King Crimson) and Geoff Downes (Yes) achieving a Number One album on the American Billboard Top 100 in 1982, where it stayed for an astonishing nine weeks yielding three top 10 hit singles including Heat Of The Moment. Howe went on to record seven studio albums with Asia across several periods in the band.
Howe also collaborated with Genesis guitarist Steve Hackett in the short lived GTR achieving a Top 20 album in America and several albums with keyboardist Paul Sutin.
Howe has also had a varied career as a session guitarist playing on albums by a diverse range of artists including Frankie Goes To Hollywood, Propaganda, the Bee Gees, William Shatner and Queen.
Howe has released 15 solo albums and a further two studio albums with The Steve Howe Trio, formed with his son Dylan, which has seen him explore a wide range of styles and techniques.
Howe, who was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2017 as a member of Yes, has been an enduring presence in the music scene for over half a century, continually exploring and pushing back the boundaries of musical possibilities influencing musicians as diverse as Alex Lifeson (Rush), Steven Wilson (Porcupine Tree) and Brian May (Queen).
Steve Howe: With acoustic music, it’s the beauty of the instruments that comes through.
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