King Tears Music
2008
Some Unfinished Business Vol I
About This Album
Prior to his death in a plane crash on May 11, 1996, Walter Hyatt was working on his third solo album. Exactly how far he had gotten on it is not clear. The unsigned liner notes to this album say, "By the spring of 1996 Walt had almost forty songs in waiting." In the publicity materials accompanying the album, Hyatt's widow Heidi, who is the executive producer of the disc, is quoted as saying, "Walter had been in the studio that last year recording songs for his next project." The issue of how close to completion Hyatt got comes up because it is clear that Some Unfinished Business, Vol. 1 is an album on which a group of musicians and producers have added overdubs to Hyatt's unfinished tracks. There is no indication in the notes or the publicity material about how much overdubbing was done, but a guess from listening would be that it is quite extensive. Likely, Hyatt's contribution was limited to his vocals and guitar, and the original tracks were really just simple demos. That said, there is nothing tentative about his singing, and there is nothing unfinished about the songs themselves. Never does Hyatt give anything other than a polished vocal performance, and he never sounds like he's improvising or singing dummy lyrics (as, for instance, John Lennon sometimes did on the similarly posthumous Milk and Honey).
Track List (try tracks 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8 and 9)

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