Lawson (album)

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Lawson
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Studio album by John Schumann
Released 2005
Recorded May 2005
Studio Sing Sing, South Melbourne
Genre Folk,
Label ABC Music / Universal Music Australia
Producer Kerryn Tolhurst
John Schumann chronology
Portrait: The Very Best of John Schumann
(2002) Portrait: The Very Best of John Schumann2002		Lawson
(2005)		 Behind the Lines
(2008) Behind the Lines2008

Lawson [1] is the first album by John Schumann and the Vagabond Crew. It was Schumann's first album of new material since 1993's True Believers.

John Schumann and the Vagabond Crew is an Australian folk group formed in Adelaide in 2005. The band's name is taken from a line in Henry Lawson's poem "Knocking Around". Since it was founded a number of Australian musicians have been involved. The formation of the group marked the return of John Schumann, former Redgum frontman to regular performances and recording.

<i>True Believers</i> (John Schumann album) album by John Schumann

True Believers is the second solo album by John Schumann, previously the frontman of Redgum. Released in 1993, it was reissued in 2009.

Contents

It marked the first time that Schumann had worked on an album with Hugh McDonald and Michael Atkinson since Schumann left Redgum in 1985.

Hugh McDonald was an Australian musician. Active from the 1970s to 2016, he performed and recorded with the Bushwackers, the Sundowners, Banshee, Redgum, Des "Animal" McKenna, Moving Cloud and the Colonials.

Michael Atkinson is an Australian musician and composer. He was a member of Redgum from 1975–1987. While with Redgum he wrote many of the band's songs, and also contributed to the soundtrack of the film A Street to Die. After leaving Redgum, he worked as a composer on Australia films and television series, including the Russell Crowe film Heaven's Burning and popular police drama Blue Heelers.

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.

The album consists of the poetry of Henry Lawson put to music. [2]

Henry Lawson Australian writer and poet

Henry Archibald Hertzberg Lawson was an Australian writer and bush poet. Along with his contemporary Banjo Paterson, Lawson is among the best-known Australian poets and fiction writers of the colonial period and is often called Australia's "greatest short story writer".

Album artwork

The cover art shows John Schumann and Henry Lawson, seemingly gazing at each other across the ages.

Track listing

  1. "To An Old Mate"
  2. "Knocking Around"
  3. "The Glass on the Bar"
  4. "Second Class Wait Here"
  5. "Faces In The Street"
  6. "The Bush Girl"
  7. "Taking His Chance"
  8. "Scots of the Riverina"
  9. "To Hannah"
  10. "A Prouder Man Than You"
  11. "The Low Lighthouse"
  12. "The Shame of Going Back"
  13. "To Jim"

Personnel

The Vagabond Crew
Rob Hirst Australian musician

Robert George "Rob" Hirst is an Australian musician from Camden, New South Wales. He is a founding member of rock band Midnight Oil on drums, percussion and backing vocals from the 1970s until the band took a hiatus in 2002. The band resumed activity as a group in 2017. Hirst also wrote a book, Willie's Bar & Grill, recounting the experiences on the tour Midnight Oil embarked on shortly after the 11 September terrorist attacks in 2001.

Russell Morris Australian singer

Russell Norman Morris is an Australian singer-songwriter and guitarist who had five Australian Top 10 singles during the late 1960s and early 1970s. On 1 July 2008, the Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) recognised Morris' status when he was inducted into the ARIA Hall of Fame.

Mike Rudd Australian musician

Michael David Rudd is a New Zealand-born musician and composer who has been based in Australia since the late 1960s, and who was the leader of Australian progressive rock bands Spectrum and Ariel in the 1970s.

Demo musicians
Additional musician (mentioned on individual song pages in the liner notes)

Related Research Articles

Lawson may refer to:

Hugh McDonald (American musician) American musician

Hugh John McDonald is an American musician who is best known for his session work and for being the current bass guitarist of American rock band Bon Jovi, which he joined as an unofficial member in November 1994, before becoming an official member in 2016. Before joining Bon Jovi, he was the bass guitarist for the David Bromberg Band, touring extensively worldwide and playing on many Bromberg albums. He has played with many other artists, both live and in the studio, and has recorded with Willie Nelson, Jon Bon Jovi, Richie Sambora, Steve Goodman, Ringo Starr, Lita Ford, Michael Bolton, Cher, Alice Cooper, Ricky Martin, Michael Bublé, Bret Michaels, others and did a few dates during Shania Twain's the Woman in Me TV tour.

William Louis Shelton is an American guitarist and music producer.

Scots of the Riverina is a 1917 Australian bush poem by Henry Lawson. It relates the story of a boy who left his home in Riverina and is shunned by his family until he dies in World War I.

I Was Only 19 1983 single by Redgum

"Only 19", "I Was Only 19" or "A Walk in the Light Green" is the most widely recognised song by Australian folk group Redgum. The song was released in March 1983 as a single, which hit number one on the national Kent Music Report Singles Chart for two weeks. It was also recorded for Redgum's live album Caught in the Act released in June, which stayed in the top 40 of the Kent Music Report Albums Chart for four months. Royalties for the song go to the Vietnam Veterans Association of Australia. It is in the Australasian Performing Right Association's Top 30 Australian Songs of all time.

Kerryn Tolhurst is a noted Australian musician and songwriter who was based in the USA in the late 1970s and 1980s.

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<i>Portrait: The Very Best of John Schumann</i> album by John Schumann

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<i>Brown Rice and Kerosine</i> album by Redgum

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References

  1. ↑ John Schumann official website "Lawson album information"
  2. ↑ That Striped Sunlight Sound blog Lawson review
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