Roger Hodgson - Open the Door CD

Open the Door is the third studio album by English musician Roger Hodgson. It was his first since 1987's Hai Hai, and was released on 9 May 2000 on Epic Records. The Morse code at the beginning of the Along Came Mary song, spells out "Open the Door".

Track listing

All songs written by Roger Hodgson, except where noted.

1. "Along Came Mary" 6:24

2. "The More I Look" 4:57

3. "Showdown" 5:20

4. "Hungry" 4:27

5. "The Garden" 2:15

6. "Death and a Zoo" 7:32

7. "Love is a Thousand Times" 3:30

8. "Say Goodbye" 3:57

9. "Open the Door" 8:55

10. "For Every Man" (Roger Hodgson, Alan Simon) 4:43

Personnel

• Roger Hodgson – vocals, guitars (tracks 3, 4, 6, 10), 12-string guitar (tracks 1, 2, 7), bass guitar (track 8), keyboards (tracks 1–4, 6, 9), piano (track 6), harmonium (track 5), pipe organ (tracks 8, 9), harpsichord (track 8) church organ (track 11)

• Trevor Rabin – electric guitar, keyboards, backing vocals (track 2)

• Claude Samard – banjo, (track 3) Dobro slide guitar (tracks 3, 4), bouzouki (tracks 6, 7), pedal steel guitar (track 7), oud (track 9)

• Manuel Delgado – Spanish guitar (track 9), palmas (track 9)

• Dan Ar Braz – arpeggio guitar (track 10)

• Laurent Vernerey – bass guitar (tracks 1–5, 7, 9, 10)

• Alan Thomson – bass guitar (track 6)

• Arnaud Dunoyer – Hammond organ (tracks 1, 7, 9, 10)

• Olivier Rousseau – piano (tracks 2, 3)

• Alan Simon – high whistle (tracks 1, 6), bodhran (track 6), harmonica (track 9)

• Loïc Ponthieu – drums (tracks 1–5, 7, 9, 10)), wavedrum (track 9)

• Denis Banarrosh – percussion (tracks 1, 3–7, 9, 10)

• Gerry Conway – percussion (tracks 1, 6), drums (track 8)

• Jeff Phillips – drums (track 6)

• Jean Pierre Meneghin – Scottish drums (track 1)

• Gurvan Houdayer – Scottish drums (track 1)

• Christophe Negre – saxophone (1, 4, 10)

• Michel Gaucher – flute (track 9)

• Zdenek Rys – oboe (track 6)

• Bruno Le Rouzic – bagpipe (track 1)

• Pascal Martin – uilleann pipe (tracks 1, 6)

• Jean Louis Roques – accordion (tracks 1, 7, 10)

• Marco Canepa – Morse code (tracks 1, 10)

• Jean-Jacques Milteau – harmonica (track 3)

• Dominique Regef – rebec (track 5, 11), Hurdy Gurdy (track 6)

• Didier Lockwood – violin (tracks 3, 6, 8, 9)

• Pavel Belohlavek – cello (track 6)

• Ilana Russell (Alana Cunningham) – children's choir

• Sierrah Dietz – children's chorus (track 10)

• Justine Black – children's chorus (track 10)

• Molly Katwman – children's chorus (track 10)

• Nikki Matheson – backing vocals (track 11)

• The Prague Symphony Orchestra; conducted by Mario Klemens (tracks 1, 2, 5, 6, 8–10)

• The Bulgarian Voices "Philippopolis"; conducted by Hristo Arabadjiev (tracks 8, 9)

• Samples from: speech by Queen Elizabeth II (track 1), Rev. Jesse Jackson (track 3), Ronald Reagan (track 3), Sevik the wolf (track 6)

Charles Roger Pomfret Hodgson (s. 21. maaliskuuta 1950 Portsmouth, Hampshire, Iso-Britannia) on englantilainen laulaja-lauluntekijä, joka tunnetaan parhaiten pop rock -yhtye Supertrampin solistina ja perustajajäsenenä.

Hodgson tunnetaan erityisesti yhdessä Supertrampin kanssa tekemistään hiteistä, kuten Dreamer, Breakfast in America, Give a Little Bit ja The Logical Song.

Levyssä jokin pikku likajälki ja ihanhiven muuta jälkeä. Kaikkinensa muuten siisti.