On my own now. No longer CBS’s baby. They had become tired of the obstacles. They read laziness into what was mental ill health. They did not understand why I seemed to want to scupper the commercial success I had. I began writing with Pete Glenister. A guy who had a short stint as guitarist on the raindancing tour and who was ‘let go’. Pete and I make a good team. He is a gentleman and a scholar and a great writer. We were excited by each others’ ideas. I suggested perhaps that he produce me. Muff Winwood AandR told me to do what I liked. I did.

In making Hoodoo, we were left to our own devices and found some passion and aggression again. It is not a flawless record…but I know of few that are… and none that I have made… but it became a road that lead to my understanding myself much better. It has some songs on it that I am very proud of and favourites, It wont be long, This House, Hoodoo and chunks of Footsteps.

Mixed reviews. The record company were disheartened by the decline in sales and lost interest and faith. I was just getting back it again.

Alison, writing here, May 2007

• Footsteps (2009 Remastered)

  • Lyrics

    It won’t be clean and easy

    There’s more to carry than a case or two

    I come with a history that I won’t forget in a life with you

    This man’s been true to me and I didn’t come by him easy

    Shame shame crying shame

    Losing more than a family name

    Don’t let your footsteps falter

    You’re gonna get wet if you dip in the water

    Be sure what you take me for and I won’t ever want for more

    Don’t let your footsteps fail me

    You’re gonna get sunk if you slip on the way

    When I say that the time is right

    Go walk this mother out of sight

    I didn’t plan to meet you now here I am on a roundabout

    See the road where I lived my life

    If I go with you there’s no turning back

    I’m tired and I ain’t proud but I want you more

    than I ever have

    Tell me baby, did you think about it

    It won’t be young and pretty

    Look around you, you know it

    Ain’t nothing new for me I don’t get fooled so easy

    What’s good ain’t gonna be fine six months on down the line

    Shame shame crying shame

    Losing more than a family name

    Have you found it, did you find what you’re looking for

    You know you change your mind and it’s a waste of time

    And heaven only knows you’ll be on your own

• It Won't Be Long (2009 Remastered)

  • Lyrics

    One of these days

    I’m waiting on a day

    When nobody comes to trample my meadow

    Biding my time

    There’s gonna be a time

    Might take a while but

    Changes are coming

    And it won’t be long

    When everything you said

    Won’t sit around and pile up with the traffic in my head

    And when I wake up

    I won’t see you on the bathroom floor

    In the tangle of clothes we left lying there

    It won’t be long

    One of these nights

    With company I find

    I won’t be inclined to leave before sunrise

    When my eyes, my mouth, my hands, my head

    Don’t tell me that nobody else will do

    And it won’t be long

    When everything you said

    Won’t sit around and pile up with the traffic in my head

    And when I wake up

    I won’t see you on the bedroom floor

    In the tangle of rope we left lying there

    It won’t be long

    It won’t be long

    ‘Til it’s all gone

    And it won’t be long

    When everything you said

    Won’t sit around and pile up with the traffic in my head

    And when I wake up

    I won’t see you by the bedroom door

    In the wallpaper stained by the cup that I threw at your head

    It won’t be long

• This House (2009 Remastered)

  • Lyrics

    Whose sticky hands are these

    And what is this empty place

    I could be happily lost but for your face

    Here stands an empty house

    That used to be full of life

    Now it’s home for no one and his wife

    It’s a hovel and

    Who can take your place?

    I can’t face another day

    And who will shelter me?

    It’s cold in here

    Cover me

    Under these fingertips a strange body rolls and dips

    I close my eyes and you’re here again

    Later as day descends

    I’ll shout from my window

    To anyone listening. “I’m losing”

    Who can take your place?

    I can’t face another day

    And who will shelter me?

    It’s cold in here

    Cover me

    Oh in a plague of hateful questioning

    Tap dancing every syllable from ear to ear

    I hear the din of lovers jousting

    When I’m hiding with my head to the wall

    Who will shelter me?

    It’s cold in here

• Rise (2016 Remastered)

  • Lyrics

    Baby lose that frying pan

    You don’t live to feed that man

    Nothing’s gained through self-denial

    ‘Cos you weren’t born to be servile

    Don’t you know you gotta

    Rise - Think about what you do now

    Where do you belong

    Are you somebody’s little babe

    Or does the fight go on

    Do you think the hurting is gonna go away

    If you leave uprising for another day

    Hey mister! Better teach your child to run

    From all you name as just harmless fun

    Do you show respect everywhere you go

    Do you teach the young man how to treat your own

    Don’t you know you gotta

    Rise - Think about what you do now

    How do you behave

    Would you leave your children

    What you see today

    Freedom to the children of the world

    Think about what you do now

    Everything you see

    Life ain’t living in a magazine

    Life ain’t living

    Sister! Why do you trade it in

    For a diamond chip and a rabbit skin

    His big red car is a mite too fast

    And it wasn’t built for the ride to last

    Freedom to the slave of the slave

    (and you know you are)

• Wishing You Were Here (2016 Remastered)

  • Lyrics

    I can’t begin to tell you how it feels

    It’s a clear blue sky

    Out here my heart so full it’s fit to burst

    Just counting the hours

    Home, such a long way gone

    How to share a day, here’s my only way

    Send myself to you

    Wishing you were here

    I can’t begin to tell you where I’ve been

    It’s a world behind

    And if we are to find our heaven here

    We just have to look harder

    Now I can see you

    I never could before, now I want nothing more

    When I close my eyes

    Wishing you were here

    Home such a long way gone

    How to share a day, here’s my only way

    When I close my eyes

    Wishing you were here

    I can’t begin to tell you how it feels...

• Hoodoo (2009 Remastered)

  • Lyrics

    Well now everyone says you’ve got a heart of gold

    Huh! Yeah it’s one of those things being bought and sold

    Now it’s back on the market I’ve been told

    Hoodoo, you

    Well I rue the day I ever saw your face

    (Thank you God for the day I saw his face)

    Even more the day I opened up my place

    You can go and park your car in space

    Hoodoo you. Hoodoo

    Who do? Who do you Hoodoo too?

    Save it for your mother

    Save it for the judge

    Save it for your brother who can never ever get enough

    Share it with your neighbours

    Share it with your friends

    Hand it out if you’re ever in doubt

    But here is where your credit ends

    Who do? Who do you Hoodoo too?

    Well now look at all the candles on your wall

    Set a little flame to one and all

    Burn them out, it’s fine to fall

    Hoodoo, you

    And now don’t I just know what you’re coming for

    (The sweetest thing without a d-dou-doubt)

    Ain’t just for banging on my door

    (She don’t know what it’s all a-b-bou-bout)

    Well I ain’t hungry anymore

    Hoodoo you. Hoodoo. Who do? Who do you Hoodoo too?

• (Meeting With My) Main Man [2016 Remastered]

  • Lyrics

    Well sugar sweetness

    Move yourself

    I gotta go I got a meet to make

    Fine as it is back there

    Back up your tin can

    Pack off your sweet behind

    Ain’t got time to fool around

    Ain’t no wet nurse to you child

    Pick it up

    Baby meeting with my main man

    And I get a belly full of lovin’

    Meeting with my main man

    When I get through here gonna make my way

    Up to the 22nd floor with a pile of money

    I’ll throw it all up for a hit on the back wall

    If I want more you’ll be the first to know

    I’ll call you later - much later

    Just doing fine my dear up here

    Look around

    “Where do we go” you say

    Never could come where I wanna be

    This is hard as hell and I don’t want to take it easy

    Come on now - shake me

• Back Where I Belong (2016 Remastered)

  • Lyrics

    Have no faith

    Believe me, don’t believe in me

    I’m gonna let you down

    You make it so very easy

    He’s waiting for me

    That’s the way I ever want it to be

    It’s always been the same

    Yes it has, do you see, wanna be where I belong

    I belong

    What am I supposed to do?

    If he were there I wouldn’t be with you

    And you know the time is wrong

    I’m going home back where I belong

    You can’t lose what you don’t have

    Making waves won’t keep mine from me

    I was lonely and there you were

    Don’t think he’s hiding in the backroom

    He knows with a wave of his hand

    (On my way I’m) you’ll be out and I

    (On my way I’m) I’ll be on my way

    (On my way I’m) back where I belong

    I belong

    If he were there I wouldn’t be with you

    And you know that it’s all I have

    I’m telling you baby, I can’t stop now

    He’s waiting for me

    I gotta go ‘cos

    I feel his hand

    Reminds me how ain’t no use in having any other man

• My Right A.R.M. (2016 Remastered)

  • Lyrics

    Don’t be afraid of the dark my love

    What would old Hobbs do with this pure heart

    Where shadows inch like rising damp

    Their seaweed fingers will us all to be wakeful

    What a night for naming stars and parking cars

    Sink into our cloud of down and sleep with me

    Angel, angel, hold your head up high

    In no way let God’s kingdom pass you by

    There’s an open door and the lights are on

    And all the goings on, the shouting mouths have gone

    Though why should I care anyway

    I’ll see your sweet face everyday

    And that’s everything

    A prayer that I may never find you there

    Folded up in an empty room

    Too tired to laugh at a vaulting moon

• Never Too Late (2016 Remastered)

  • Lyrics

    I saw a face, grey as the cold December

    A face I know, not the one that I remember

    I wanted to hide but I can’t run out on you forever

    (Milky eyes like opal stones

    Staring through a stained glass window

    It’s never too late to change your mind

    Looking through a stained glass window)

    It’s never too late

    I know a man, couldn’t change the peace that stands

    between us

    But these open hands are empty bowls to fill

    (Come for the one who pays the most

    You don’t get thanks for loyalty)

    And all your friends, have gone and sold you down the river

    They’ve got your phone book now

    (Once your life was a fiery feast

    Now it’s just a burning ember)

    It’s never too late

    We’ll get it back together

    It’s never too late

    Release me from this sorrow

    Will you never learn, love knows no bounds

    Beggar or a king, it will bring you down

    Fool I may be, can’t give up the ghost that haunts me

    I saw a face, grey as a cold December

    It’s never too late...

• Find Me (2016 Remastered)

  • Lyrics

    Is your heart so heavy

    That it weighs you down

    So all you have is time

    Don’t turn away

    We have both seen darker days

    And there’s always a light that shines

    (Do you feel like) all your hopes are a long way gone

    (Does it seem like) every road only takes you down

    (Do they shut you out)

    Don’t be afraid of what they say

    Throw back your head and cry

    When you need somebody, find me there

    When you’re feeling empty I’ll be there - find me

    When you’re feeling weary with no peace of mind

    And the tone of your voice is hollow

    You’re home to stranger that won’t belong

    And there’s no-one else to follow

    (Do you feel like) nowhere, oh no, there’s no better way

    (Does it seem like) nobody hears a word you say

    (And they shut you out)

    Where does it say that a man ain’t a right

    To throw back his head and cry

    You don’t need to tell me ‘cos I know

    I know how you feel (you’re miles away)

    You don’t need to show me (nobody listens to a word

    you say)

    We can shut them out

    Where does it say that a man ain’t a right

    To throw back his head and cry

    When you need somebody find me there

    I’ll be right beside you

    When you’re feeling empty I’ll be there

    Can you hear me? I’ll be singing. . .

• Take of Me (2016 Remastered)

• Back Where I Belong (Polite Mix) [2016 Remastered]

• Back Where I Belong (Soft Mix) [2016 Remastered]

• Come Back Home (2016 Remastered)

• Hoodoo (Extended Version) [2016 Remastered]

• Hoodoo (Starlight Dub) [2016 Remastered]

• Hoodoo (Single Version) [2016 Remastered]

• Hoodoo (Instrumental) [2016 Remastered]

• It Won't Be Long (Live at the Town & Country Club, London, 1991)

• Wishing You Were Here (Live at the Town & Country Club, London, 1991)

• Never Too Late (Live at the Town & Country Club, London, 1991)

• Find Me (Live at the Town & Country Club, London, 1991)

• (Meeting With My) Main Man [Live at the Town & Country Club, London, 1991]

• Dig a Hole (Demo)