Campfire (James Blundell album)

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Campfire
Campfire by James Blundell.jpg
Studio album by
Released3 February 2017 (2017-02-03)
Recorded2016
Genre
  • Country
  • Contemporary country music
Length41:03
Label Red Rebel Music, Revenge Music
Producer
    James Blundell chronology
    Come On In
    (2015)
    Campfire
    (2017)
    Singles from Beautiful
    1. "Borderline Summertime [1] "
      Released: 11 January 2016
    2. "Money Changes Everything [2] "
      Released: 16 December 2016
    3. "Rain on the Scarecrow [3] "
      Released: 3 February 2017

    Campfire is the twelfth studio album by Australian recording artist James Blundell, released in February 2017. The album peaked at number 58 on the ARIA Albums Chart, becoming Blundell's first album to make the top 100 since Earth & Sea in 1995. [4]

    Contents

    Background

    In mid 2016, Blundell started the recording Campfire, following a conversation with collaborator and Red Rebel Music head Karen Waters about Bruce Springsteen's album Nebraska ; an album recorded at home and on the cheap. Blundell told Canberra Times "She said to me, "How would you like to forget about the writing and do something just for the joy of singing?" And that sounded wonderful." [5] With that in mind, Blundell and Waters unearthed songs with great stories and telling them the way you would around a campfire, with a beer and great friends. [6]

    Track listing

    No.TitleWriter(s)Length
    1."Money Changes Everything" (with Bec Lavelle)
    • Tom Gray
    5:59
    2."Borderline Summertime" 4:26
    3."6th Avenue Heartache" (with Jonny Taylor)4:37
    4."Rain on the Scarecrow" (with The Wolfe Brothers)3:22
    5."Take It Easy" (with Bec Lavelle) 4:11
    6."True Blue" (with Tania Kernaghan)3:12
    7."No Surrender" (with Paul Costa)4:04
    8."Forty Miles to Saturday Night" (with Cameron Daddo)3:26
    9."Breakfast at Sweethearts"3:26
    10."Blowin' in the Wind" (with Anne Kirkpatrick, Liam Kennedy-Clark and Abigail Grace)3:21

    Charts

    Chart (2017)Rank
    Australian Albums Chart [4] 58
    Australian Artist Albums Chart [4] 19
    Australian Country Albums Chart [4] 19

    Release history

    RegionDateFormatEdition(s)LabelCatalogue
    Australia3 February 2017StandardRed Rebel Music, Revenge MusicRRM025

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