Taste the Salt

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Taste the Salt
Taste the Salt by Daryl Braithwaite.jpg
Studio album by
Released5 November 1993 (1993-11-05)
RecordedJuly–August 1993, Platinum Australia, Melbourne, Australia
Genre Pop rock, Soft rock
Label Columbia
Producer Simon Hussey
Daryl Braithwaite chronology
Higher Than Hope
(1991)
Taste the Salt
(1993)
Six Moons: The Best of 1988-1994
(1994)

Taste the Salt is an album by Daryl Braithwaite released in November 1993. The album reached No. 13 on the Australian ARIA Charts. [1]

Contents

Braithwaite undertook the Taste the Salt Tour, nationally from 1 March to 18 April 1994. [2]

Track listing

  1. "In the Distance" (Daryl Braithwaite, Ricky Edwards, Simon Hussey)
  2. "Barren Ground" (Bruce Hornsby, John Hornsby)
  3. "Breakin' the Rules" (Robbie Robertson)
  4. "The World as It Is" (Tina Harris, Daniel O'Brien)
  5. "Wind and Sea" (Ricky Edwards, Daryl Braithwaite)
  6. "Reflection of Me" (P. Bowman, A. McSweeney)
  7. "Look What Your Love Has Done to Me" (John Capek, Marc Jordan)
  8. "Gonna Be Somebody" (John Waite, Jonathan Cain, Anthony Brock)
  9. "Trust Somebody" (Marc Jordan, Richard Page, Patrick Leonard)
  10. "Hundreds of Tears" (Sheryl Crow, Robert Marlette)
  11. "Shout" (Lawrence Maddy, Daryl Braithwaite)

Personnel

Charts

Chart (1993–94)Peak
position
Australian Albums (ARIA) [3] 13

Singles

Release dateSinglePeak chart positions
Australia
[4]
11 October 1993"The World as It Is"35
4 January 1994"Barren Ground"61
22 March 1994"Breaking the Rules"

Release history

CountryDateLabelFormatCatalog
Australia8 November 1993 Columbia/Sony Music AustraliaCD474864.2

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