Roarin' Town

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Roarin' Town
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Studio album by
Released4 October 2006 (2006-10-04)
RecordedWoodstock Studios, Melbourne
Genre
Length57:00
Label ABC Records
Producer Joe Camilleri
The Black Sorrows chronology
One Mo' Time
(2004)
Roarin' Town
(2006)
The Essential Black Sorrows
(2007)

Roarin' Town is the eleventh studio album by Australian rock band The Black Sorrows. The album was released in October 2006. It was the first studio album from The Black Sorrows since Beat Club in 1998. [1] Camilleri said he wrote the tracks throughout 2005 and called the song "What Levi Wants", the son of "Harley + Rose", "not because they sound like each other, it just started to speak in the same way." [2]

Contents

The album was re-released in May 2007, with a 7-track live CD.

Reception

Bruce Elder from Sydney Morning Herald said; "This is the first new Black Sorrows album in nearly a decade and it doesn't do the brand name any favours." adding "There are moments when the old magic re-emerges... But the rest of the material fails to excite" [3]

Track listing

(all tracks written by Joe Camelleri and Nick Smith)

  1. "Lonesome Road" - 5:04
  2. "What Levi Wants" - 4:26
  3. "It Ain't True" - 3:51
  4. "Where's It All Gonna End" - 3:00
  5. "Headful of Stars" - 4:14
  6. "In Your Lover's Arms Tonight" - 4:43
  7. "Restless Heart" - 5:10
  8. "Word to the Wise" - 3:40
  9. "Comfort Me" - 4:07
  10. "Lay By My Side" - 4:09
  11. "The Richest Man in the World" - 4:24
  12. "Best Thing" - 2:52
  13. "That Tune on the Jukebox" - 3:55
2007 Bonus disc
  1. "Harley + Rose" (Live)
  2. "Daughters Of Glory" (Live)
  3. "Chained to the Wheel" (Live)
  4. "Snake Skin Shoes" (Live)
  5. "Mystified" (Live)
  6. "Last One Standing For You" (Live)
  7. "Hold On to Me" (Live)

Release History

RegionDateFormatLabelCatalogue
Australia [4] [5] 4 October 2006 CD, digital download ABC Records1778990
Australia [6] 21 May 2007 CD Warner Music Australia 1778607

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