Chris Jones - No Looking Back

180-gram vinyl

Chris Jones visited Stockfisch Records for the first time in 1982, recording his first album No Looking Back. The vinyl renaissance of our days makes it possible: No Looking Back is published again in 2017 as a vinyl record.

In 1982, a 24-year-old guitarist named Chris Jones came to our studio in Northeim to record 10 songs for his first album. On a 2" tape recorder and mixer: Günter Pauler. It was already common practice for studios to invite studio musicians for some musical and sounding contributions: Oss Rentz (Hein & Oss) with vocals, John Heinrich at the pedal steel, Wojtek Bolimowski on the violin, Hans-Jörg Maucksch with his Fretless bass. At that time, the marvelously creative collaboration between Stockfisch Records and the ingenious guitarist Chris Jones began — and it should last more than two decades.

When Chris Jones's CD moonstruck was produced at Stockfisch in the winter of '99/2000, we decided to add the meanwhile out of print album No Looking Back to this album as Bonus-CD. On the occasion of the release Chris wrote: "My first LP (yes, it was before CDs existed!) No Looking Back is included in its digitally re-mastered form. The songs are still personal (maybe even more so, I've lived and learned a lot in these 17 years) and the music means just as much."

Who would have thought that in 2017 it would be possible to publish these wonderful 10 titles again as a long-playing record? The current vinyl renaissance makes it possible.