Hofner Blue Notes

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{{Infobox album

| name = Hofner Blue Notes

| type = studio

| artist = Chris Rea

| cover = Hofnerbluenotes.png

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| released = 28 July 2003

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| studio =

| genre = Blues

| length = 50:29

| label = Jazzee Blue

| producer = Kiadan Quinn

| prev_title = Dancing Down the Stony Road

| prev_year = 2002

| next_title = The Blue Jukebox

| next_year = 2004

}}

Hofner Blue Notes is the nineteenth studio album by British singer-songwriter Chris Rea, released in 2003 by his own record label, Jazzee Blue.{{cite web|url=https://www.discogs.com/Chris-Rea-Hofner-Blue-Notes/release/2134881|title=Chris Rea - Hofner Blue Notes|website=Discogs.com|accessdate=13 December 2017}} The album was part of series of largely instrumental blues and jazz albums released by his label Jazzee Blue and mostly fronted by his band members,{{cite news|author=Mark Edwards|url=https://www.thetimes.com/sunday-times-rich-list/profile/article/chris-rea-blue-street-m2zpv0hw9vj|title=Chris Rea: Blue Street|date=27 July 2003|newspaper=The Times|access-date=13 December 2017}} of which this album was preceded by Rea's eighteenth studio and instrumental album Blue Street (Five Guitars) in 2003.{{cite web|url=https://www.discogs.com/Chris-Rea-Blue-Street-Five-Guitars/release/5135455|title=Blue Street (Five Guitars)|website=Discogs.com|accessdate=13 December 2017}}

The album was part of Hofner Blue Notes, a project about Höfner guitar because Rea's first electric guitar was a 1961 Höfner V3 bought from a second-hand shop while he was working in his father's ice cream factory in early 1970s, and continued with The Return of the Fabulous Hofner Bluenotes in 2008.{{cite web|url=http://ne4me.dev.visualsoft.co.uk/celebrities-3/middlesbrough-superstar-speaks-exclusively-12.html|title=Middlesbrough superstar Chris Rea speaks exclusively about recovering from illness and his return to touring|date=5 March 2010|website=Ne4me.dev.visualsoft.co.uk|access-date=27 March 2015|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://archive.today/20150405195527/http://ne4me.dev.visualsoft.co.uk/celebrities-3/middlesbrough-superstar-speaks-exclusively-12.html|archivedate=5 April 2015|df=dmy-all}}