Cut to the Quick

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Cut to the Quick
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EP by
Released1982
RecordedRecorders and York Street Studio, Melbourne
Genre Folk,
Label Epic
Producer Redgum
Redgum chronology
Brown Rice and Kerosine
(1981)
Cut to the Quick
(1982)
Caught in the Act
(1983)

Cut to the Quick is an EP by Redgum. [1]

"Working Girls" was later released on Frontline , "Fabulon", "The Diamantina Drover", and "Where Ya Gonna Run To" were included on 1983's Caught in the Act . "Where Ya Gonna Run To" was also included on Brown Rice and Kerosine .

More recently, in 2004 "Fabulon" and "The Diamantina Drover" were included on the Redgum anthology Against the Grain . [2]

Track listing

Side A
  1. "Working Girls"
  2. "Fabulon"
Side B
  1. "The Diamantina Drover"
  2. "Where Ya Gonna Run To"

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References

  1. Redgum discography Album information Archived 2009-10-02 at the Wayback Machine
  2. That Striped Sunlight Sound blog Cut to the Quick review