Barren Ground (song)

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"Barren Ground" is a song written by Bruce Hornsby and John Hornsby for the 1990 album A Night on the Town by Bruce Hornsby and the Range.

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Daryl Braithwaite version

"Barren Ground"
Barren Ground (single) by Daryl Braithwaite.jpg
Single by Daryl Braithwaite
from the album Taste the Salt
B-side "The Other Side"
Released10 January 1994 (1994-01-10) [1]
Length4:42
Label Columbia
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s) Simon Hussey
Daryl Braithwaite singles chronology
"The World as It Is"
(1993)
"Barren Ground"
(1994)
"Breaking the Rules"
(1994)

"Barren Ground" was covered by Australian singer-songwriter Daryl Braithwaite and released as the second single from his fourth studio album, Taste the Salt in January 1994. Producer Simon Hussey won the ARIA award for Engineer of the Year for his work on this track and Braithwaite's "The World as It Is" at the ARIA Music Awards of 1994. [2]

Track listing

CD single

  1. "Barren Ground" – 4:42
  2. "The Other Side" – 4:10
  3. "The Horses" (acoustic) – 4:17

Charts

Weekly chart performance for "Barren Ground"
Chart (1994)Peak
position
Australia (ARIA) [3] 61

References

  1. "New Release Summary – Product Available from : 10/1/94: Singles". The ARIA Report . No. 204. 9 January 1994. p. 17.
  2. "ARIA History - Engineer of the Year". ariaawards.com.au. Retrieved 2 March 2016.
  3. Ryan, Gavin (2011). Australia's Music Charts 1988–2010 (pdf ed.). Mt. Martha, VIC, Australia: Moonlight Publishing.