Just Be Thankful.....

Sunset Gun - In An Ideal World

Ripped from a vinyl album released on CBS Records (CBS 26584) in 1985 to high resolution 24-bit flac audio. Staying in Scotland, but with a slight change of mood - I featured the singles back in the early days of this blog, and made an appeal for a copy of this rare album - here it is at last. Whilst this is an album of suckle sweet mor-pop-soul, it's the voices of Louise and Deidre Rutkowski which will be of interest to many. The two sisters gained notable recognition when 4AD's Ivo chose them for vocal duties on many of the tracks for two of the This Mortal Coil albums.

A1 Sister
A2 Paint The Town Red
A3 On The Right Side
A4 Company
A5 Stop
B1 How Can You Mend A Broken Heart?
B2 Stay With Me
B3 Tongue Tied And Twisted
B4 Life Of The Freeman
B5 Face Up To What Is True

Sunset Gun - Three 7" Singles

Sunset Gun were sisters Louise and Deidre Rutkowski and multi-instumentalist Ross Campbell. In 1984, they were snapped up by CBS who released three single and an album before dumping them.

The Rutkowski sisters went onto bigger things and eventually gained huge acclaim for their extraordinary vocal work on the last two This Mortal Coil albums on 4AD and then The Hope Blister (also on 4AD).

Their original sound was very much in the pop/soul field and they should have broken through, especially given that Warners found success with Simply Red the following year. The three singles are hardly classics, but will be remembered as "should-have-been" hits. The band did release on album on CBS "In An Ideal World" - which I don't have (anybody willing to share?)
Production and guitar credits go to Alan Rankine (him again!)

From an original (and poorly pressed) CBS Records 7" single (A4556)
A. Be Thankful For What You've Got
B. Can't Cloud My View

From an original CBS Records 7" single (A6264)
A. Sister
B. Nothing Dries Sooner Than Tears

From an Original CBS Records 7" single (A6446)
A. How Can You Mend A Broken Heart
B. Until You Tire Of Me ...

All Ripped at 320kbps