Still Life with Guitar
Studio album by Kevin Ayers
Released	Jan 1992
Recorded	1991
Studio	Chipping Norton Oxfordshire, England The Church, London Townhouse Studios, West London Marcus Studios, London Strongroom Studios, East London Nomis Studios, London Real World Studios, Box, Wiltshire
Genre	Rock
Length	34:30
Label	fnac
Producer	Kevin Ayers and Dave Vatch
Kevin Ayers chronology
Falling Up (1988) Still Life with Guitar (1992) The Unfairground (2007)

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Still Life with Guitar is the fourteenth studio album by Kevin Ayers. It was the final recording to feature guitarist Ollie Halsall, who died shortly after its release. Ayers would not record another album of new material for fifteen years.

Track listing

All tracks composed by Kevin Ayers; except where noted.

1. "Feeling This Way" – 2:43
2. "Something in Between" (Ayers, Mark Nevin) – 3:15
3. "Thank You Very Much" – 3:18
4. "There Goes Johnny" – 4:03
5. "Ghost Train" (Ayers, Peter Halsall) – 4:27
6. "I Don't Depend on You" – 3:36
7. "When Your Parents Go to Sleep" – 4:46
8. "M16" – 2:54
9. "Don't Blame Them" – 1:53
10. "Irene Goodnight" (Traditional; arranged by Ayers) – 3:29

Personnel

Musicians

• Kevin Ayers – guitar, vocals
• Ollie Halsall – acoustic guitar (tracks 5, 8–9), vibraphone (track 6)
• Mark E. Nevin – acoustic guitar (tracks 3–4, 7, 10)
• Mike Oldfield – guitar (track 6)
• B.J. Cole – pedal steel guitar (tracks 4, 7)
• Kevin Armstrong – guitar (tracks 1, 7)
• Stuart Bruce – synthesizer (track 8), backing vocals (track 6)
• Simon Clarke – Hammond organ (track 6)
• Graham Henderson – Hammond organ (track 7), piano (track 2), accordion (track 4, 10)
• Anthony Moore – synthesizer (track 2), keyboards (tracks 3, 5)
• Danny Thompson – double bass (tracks 4–9)
• Richard Lee – double bass (track 10)
• Simon Edwards – guitarrón (track 3)
• Roy Dodds – drums (tracks 3–5, 7, 9–10)
• Gavin Harrison – drums (tracks 6, 8)
• Steve Monti – drums (track 1)
• Ben Darlow – backing vocals (track 6)

Technical

• Kevin Ayers – producer
• Dave Vatch – producer
• Ben Darlow – engineer
• Martin Mitchell – engineer
• Stuart Bruce – engineer
• Mathias Augustyniak, Michaël Amzalag – art direction, design, illustration
• Dan Salzmann – photography