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Lawson (album)

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Released
  
2005

Producer
  
Kerryn Tolhurst

Genre
  
Folk,

Recorded
  
May 2005 at Sing Sing, South Melbourne

Label
  
ABC Music / Universal Music Australia

Lawson (2005)
  
Behind the Lines (2008)

Lawson 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.

Contents

It marked the first time that Schumann had worked on an album with Hugh McDonald and Michael Atkinson since Schumann left Redgum in 1986.

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

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
  • Michael Atkinson
  • Shannon Bourne
  • Paul Cartwright
  • Michael Harris
  • Rob Hirst
  • Marcia Howard
  • Shane Howard
  • Toby Lang
  • Mal Logan
  • Louise McCarthy
  • Hugh McDonald
  • Russell Morris
  • Alan Pigram
  • Steven Pigram
  • Mike Rudd
  • Broderick Smith
  • Chris Stockley
  • Mick Wordley
    • Demo musicians
  • Ian "Polly" Politis
  • Rohan Powell
  • Matt Schumann
  • Anthony Thyer
    • Additional musician (mentioned on individual song pages in the liner notes)
  • Kerryn Tolhurst

    • References

    Lawson (album) Wikipedia
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