Josephine Chris Rea ( Original Version)

Chris Rea is immensely talented writing songs, playing blues and slide guitar and his husky voice is unmistakably his own. He rerecorded much of his earlier catalog. I m personally not a fan of those new recordings. The original releases are better by far. This is the original album version from 1985. The single was already a remix. Chris Rea has rerecorded the track Josephine many times, and it exists in 7 distinct versions: This original 1985 album version, which can be found on original vinyl and CD releases of Shamrock Diaries; length 4. 26. The 1985 single version, a completely different, more rocking recording; length 3:35. This was later included on the 2001 compilation The Very Best of Chris Rea. The promotional video for the single uses a slightly extended version of this, which is approximately twenty seconds longer at the start. The more discosounding Josephine (La Version Française) aka Josephine Extended French rerecord, an extended re