The second proper album of Beth Orton, Central Reservation helped Orton build on the success of her debut Trailer Park. Although retaining the electronic edge of the former, this record showed a notably more acoustic side with several tracks consisting purely of Beth's vocal accompanied by a solitary acoustic guitar, with subject matters becoming more introspective. Beth Orton Beth Orton performs live in Seattle, Washington, 2002. ... A trailer park is a neighborhood consisting of an area of land where mobile homes rest. ...

Despite this style, the album still provided more polished moments such as lead single Stolen Car and the beautiful electro melancholy of Stars All Seem To Weep or the jazz-tinged Sweetest Decline, songs which cut a much deeper mark than the more glossy feel of her debut.

The album also featured notable contributions from folk musician Terry Callier (with whom she also recorded the wonderful b-side 'Lean On Me'), Dr Robert and Ben Harper. Several tracks were also produced by Ben Watt of Everything But The Girl. Terry Callier is an American Jazz, Soul and Folk guitarist singer-songwriter from Chicago, Illinois, USA. Terry Callier Discography The New Folk Sound of Terry Callier (1964) Occasional Rain (1972) What Color Is Love (1973) I Just Cant Help Myself (1975) Fire With Ice (1977) Turn You To Love... Ben Harper (born October 28, 1968) is an American musician of the 1990s and 2000s. ... Everything But The Girl are a British two-person band formed in Hull, England in 1982 by lead singer and bassist Tracey Thorn (born September 26, 1962) and guitarist Ben Watt (born December 6, 1962). ...

Tracklisting:

Stolen Car / Sweetest Decline / Couldn't Cause Me Harm / So Much More / Pass in Time / Central Reservation (Original Version) / Stars All Seem to Weep / Love Like Laughter / Blood Red River / Devil Song / Feel To Believe / Central Reservation (The Then Again Version)

(Japanese versions included the extra track Precious Maybe, released as a b-side in other parts of the world)