Night Owl (album)

On 30 January 2007 Collectables Records released City To City and Night Owl as a two-disc set.{{citation needed|date=July 2020}}

{{Album reviews

|rev1 = AllMusic

|rev1score = {{rating|3.5|5}}{{cite web |title=Night Owl Review by Mike DeGagne |url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/night-owl-mw0000853993 |website=AllMusic |access-date=16 January 2024}}

|rev2 = MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide

|rev2score = {{rating|3|5}}{{cite book |title=MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide |date=1996 |publisher=Visible Ink Press |page=643}}

| rev3 = Smash Hits

| rev3score = 7/10{{cite journal|last=Starr|first=Red|title=Albums|journal=Smash Hits|issue=28 June – 11 July 1979|page=25}}

}}

The Los Angeles Times called the songs "concise, wry tales of love and ambition, inventively arranged and sung in a dry whine that carries just the right amount of detachment."{{cite news |last1=Pond |first1=Steve |title=Wry Tales of Love |work=Los Angeles Times |date=15 Jul 1979 |department=Calendar |page=97}}

{{tracklist

| all_writing = Gerry Rafferty

| title1 = Days Gone Down (Still Got the Light in Your Eyes) || length1 = 6:31

| title2 = Night Owl || length2 = 6:11

| title3 = The Way That You Do It || length3 = 5:08

| title4 = Why Won't You Talk to Me? || length4 = 3:59

| title5 = Get It Right Next Time || length5 = 4:42

| title6 = Take the Money and Run || length6 = 5:49

| title7 = Family Tree || length7 = 5:58

| title8 = Already Gone || length8 = 4:54

| title9 = The Tourist || length9 = 4:14

| title10 = It's Gonna Be a Long Night || length10 = 4:22

}}

• Gerry Rafferty – vocals, acoustic piano (2, 9) Polymoog (2), acoustic guitar (3–8, 10), string arrangements
• Graham Preskett – acoustic piano (1, 4, 10), electric piano (2), string synthesizer (2), keyboards (6, 7), fiddles (6, 7), mandolin (10), string arrangements, string scoring and conductor
• Pete Wingfield – organ (1, 2, 3)
• Tommy Eyre – acoustic piano (3), electric piano (5), synthesizers (5)
• John Kirkpatrick – accordion (4, 6, 7)
• Richard Brunton – electric guitar (1, 3, 6, 7), lap steel guitar (1, 4, 10), acoustic guitar (3, 4, 7–10), guitar solo (7), guitars (10)
• Hugh Burns – electric guitar (1, 4), rhythm guitar (1, 9), guitar solo (1, 9), guitars (2, 5)
• Richard Thompson –mandolin (4), electric guitars (7, 8)
• Mo Foster – bass (1, 2, 4, 6–10)
• Gary Taylor – bass (3, 5)
• Liam Genockey – drums
• Frank Ricotti – percussion (1, 2, 5, 6, 8, 9)
• Raphael Ravenscroft – Lyricon (2), saxophone (5, 6, 9, 10)
• Richard Harvey – penny whistle (6), pipe organ (7), recorders (7), synthesizers (8, 9)
• Gavyn Wright – string leader
• Betsy Cook – backing vocals (1, 3)
• Barbara Dickson – backing vocals (1, 3, 7)
• Linda Thompson – backing vocals (1, 3)

• Gerry Rafferty – producer
• Hugh Murphy – producer
• Barry Hammond – engineer (1, 2, 4, 6–10)
• Nick Patrick – engineer (3, 5)
• John Patrick Byrne – front cover painting
• Robert Ellis – photography

Album

Single

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