Against the Grain (Redgum album)

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Against the Grain
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Greatest hits album by
Released2004
Genre Folk
Label Epic
Redgum chronology
The Very Best of Redgum
(1987)
Against the Grain
(2004)
The Essential Redgum
(2011)

Against the Grain is a greatest hits album from the Australian folk-rock group Redgum. [1]

Redgum were an Australian folk and political music group formed in Adelaide in 1975 by singer-songwriter John Schumann, Michael Atkinson on guitars/vocals, Verity Truman on flute/vocals; they were later joined by Hugh McDonald on fiddle and Chris Timms on violin. All four had been students at Flinders University and together developed a strong political voice. They are best known for their protest song exploring the impact of war in the 1980s "I Was Only 19", which peaked at #1 on the National singles charts. The song is in the Australasian Performing Right Association (APRA) list of Top 30 of All Time Best Australian Songs created in 2001.

As of 2012, it is one of only three Redgum albums available on CD, the others being Caught in the Act, [2] and another best of album, The Essential Redgum.

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Track listing

  1. "Poor Ned"
  2. "Killing Floor"
  3. "Servin' USA"
  4. "Maria"
  5. "Ted"
  6. "Long Run"
  7. "Brown Rice and Kerosene"
  8. "Yarralumla Wine"
  9. "The Last Frontier"
  10. "Where Ya Gonna Run To"
  11. "Fabulon"
  12. "The Diamantina Drover"
  13. "I Was Only 19 (A Walk In The Light Green)"
  14. "I've been to Bali Too"
  15. "ASIO"
  16. "Spirit of the Land"
  17. "Gladstone Pier"
  18. "Still Life"
  19. "Just Another Moment On Your Own"

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References

  1. Redgum discography Album information
  2. Mediasearch Against the Grain review Archived 2011-03-07 at the Wayback Machine