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Product Identifiers

Record LabelLegacy

UPC0886973171127

eBay Product ID (ePID)19050134165

Product Key Features

Era1970s

Release Year2008

FormatCD

FeaturesStudio Recording

GenrePop, Rock, Contemporary Christian

TypeAlbum

StyleSinger/Songwriter

ArtistDennis Wilson

Release TitlePacific Ocean Blue [Legacy Edition]

Additional Product Features

Number of Discs2

Guest ArtistGerry Beckley, Trisha Roach, Dean Torrence, David Duke, Joe Chemay, Ron Altbach, Alexander Hamilton, Jim Dutch, Lance Buller, Baron Stewart, Christine Mcvie, Karen Lamm-Wilson, John Joyce, Dewey Bunnell, John Foss, Double Rock Baptist Choir, Ed Tuleja

DistributionSony Music Distribution

Number of Tracks33

Country/Region of ManufactureUnited States

GuitarJeff Legg, David Cohen, Steve Ross, Dave Hessler, Fred Tackett, James Jamerson, Ed Tuleja, John Hanlon, Earle Mankey, Alton Hendrickson, Carl Wilson, Ed Carter

Additional InformationThe two-disc reissue contains not only outtakes from this album's sesssions, but the entirety of Wilson's never released second solo album, written and recorded in 1978 and '79.

ReviewsIncluded in Mojo's The 67 Lost Albums You Must Own! - "How can music this expansive, ambitious and affecting have slipped through the cracks?", 4 stars out of 5 -- "PACIFIC OCEAN BLUE is a cinematic meditation on loss, both personal and environmental. A trio of wrenchingly intimate songs about a failed relationship anchor the album...", "A Piano-Driven Epic of Doomed Romanticism....With Raw-Throated, Harmonically Rich Ballads...", 4 stars out of 5 -- "A moody, groovy and deeply congenial album. Dennis had his brother Brian's gift for melody...", 3 stars out of 5 -- "The music amounts to a compelling period piece....Listen hard, and you can hear the sound of life lived so near the existential edge that it beggars belief.", "Wilson's solo project now bears flattering resemblance to other cherished winter of discontent discs from the mid-70s, of the order of Big Star's THIRD or Shuggie Otis's INSPIRATION INFORMATION.", "Full of lush harmonies, grandiose orchestrations and poignant lyrics, these songs have lost none of their innocent melancholy over the last three decades."

VocalsDennis Wilson

KeyboardsSterling Smith, Carli Munoz, Dennis Wilson

PercussionManolo Badrena

DrumsRicky Fataar, Tommy Smith, Bobby Figueroa, David Kemper, Dennis Wilson, Hal Blaine

Number of Audio ChannelsStereo