Left Hand Talking is the eighth studio album by the British singer-songwriter

Songwriter

A songwriter is an individual who writes both the lyrics and music to a song. Someone who solely writes lyrics may be called a lyricist, and someone who only writes music may be called a composer...

 Judie Tzuke

Judie Tzuke

Judie Tzuke is an English singer/songwriter. She is most well known for her 1979 hit "Stay With Me Till Dawn", which reached no.16 on the UK Singles Chart.-Early life:...

, released in 1991.

Despite considerable promotion and featuring a re-recording of her best known song, "Stay With Me Till Dawn", the album failed to chart. It was the last of Tzuke's albums to be released by a major record label (her next album, Wonderland

Wonderland (Judie Tzuke album)

Wonderland is the ninth studio album by the British singer-songwriter Judie Tzuke, released in 1992.Though released on a small independent label, it was the last of Tzuke's albums to be released before she founded her own record label, Big Moon Records, which has released all of her subsequent...

, was released on an independent label, and all subsequent albums have been released on her own home label, Big Moon Records).

Track listing

1. "One Day I will Live In France"
2. "I Could Feel You"
3. "Liam"
4. "Left Hand Talking"
5. "Jesus Was a Crossmaker" (Judee Sill
   Judee Sill
   Judee Sill was an American singer and songwriter. The first artist signed to David Geffen's Asylum label, she released two albums, then worked briefly as a cartoonist before dying of drug abuse in 1979.Her eponymous debut album was released in late 1971 and was followed around eighteen months...
   
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6. "Stay with Me till Dawn"
7. "God Only Knows"
8. "Baileys Song"
9. "Calling Me Back"
10. "Outlaws"

Personnel

• Judie Tzuke - vocals, backing vocals, keyboards
• Mike Paxman
  Mike Paxman
  Mike Paxman is a multi-instrumentalist and record producer, best known for his work with Judie Tzuke, Nick Kamen, Uriah Heep and Status Quo.Paxman grew up in Wiltshire and went to Bishop Wordsworth's School in Salisbury...
  
   - guitar, keyboards, percussion
• Phil Palmer
  Phil Palmer
  Philip 'Phil' John Palmer is a sideman and session guitarist in jazz and rock who has toured, recorded, and worked with numerous famous artists...
  
   - guitar
• John Giblin
  John Giblin
  John Giblin is an internationally renowned session bassist who has worked with the following artists:*Eric Clapton, Sting, Mark Knopfler, Phil Collins * Peter Gabriel...
  
   - bass guitar
• Bobby Paterson - bass guitar on "Liam"
• Paul Muggleton - guitar, keyboards, percussion, backing vocals
• Charlie Morgan
  Charlie Morgan
  Charlie Morgan is an English drummer and percussionist.In 1985 his drumming work with Nik Kershaw attracted the attention of Elton John, who booked him to play on his Ice on Fire album. Later that year John invited him to play with his band at Live Aid...
  
   - drums, percussion
• Bob Noble - keyboards
• Don Snow
  Don Snow
  Don Snow is a vocalist, Hammond organist, pianist, guitarist, bass guitarist, drummer and saxophonist who is primarily known for his work with Squeeze, the Sinceros, Procol Harum and the new wave act The Catch...
  
   - keyboards
• Andy Chamberlain - keyboards
• Andy Sheppard
  Andy Sheppard
  Andy Sheppard is a British jazz saxophonist and composer. He has been awarded several prizes at the British Jazz Awards, and has worked with some notable figures in contemporary jazz, including Gil Evans, Carla Bley, George Russell and Steve Swallow.-Biography:Sheppard was born in Warminster,...
  
   - soprano saxophone
• Nicolette L'Adventure - backing vocals on "One Day I will Live In France"

Production

• Produced by Mike Paxman, Paul Muggleton
• Recorded and mixed at Big Ocean Studios, Metropolis Studios, London
• Engineered by Paul Muggleton, Mike Paxman
• Mixed by Stephen W Tayler
  Stephen W Tayler
  Stephen Tayler is a mixing and recording engineer, music producer, composer and sound designer who has contributed this collection of talents to hundreds of world-class albums for artists including Kate Bush, Suzanne Vega, Peter Gabriel, Underworld, Duncan Sheik, Howard Jones, Stevie Nicks, Rush,...
  
  
• Assisted by Matt Howe, Heidi Cannavo, Craig Sullivan