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Portrait: The Very Best of John Schumann

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Released
  
2003

Artist
  
John Schumann

Label
  
COLUMBIA

Portrait (2003)
  
Lawson (2005)

Release date
  
2003

Genre
  
Folk music

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Similar
  
True Believers, Etched in Blue, Lawson, Behind the Lines

Portrait: The Very Best of John Schumann is a "best of" album by John Schumann, previously the frontman of Redgum. It includes songs from his previous two solo albums, Etched in Blue and True Believers, I was only 19 from his Redgum days, and a previously unreleased track, "One True Game", about Australian rules football.

Contents

Album artwork

The cover art shows a painting of Schumann by Sue Flanagan, which was entered in the Archibald portrait competition in 2002.

Track listing

  1. "I Was Only Nineteen"
  2. "Borrowed Ground"
  3. "Holy Mary"
  4. "Thunder Across The Reef"
  5. "Safe Behind The Wire"
  6. "For The Children"
  7. "If I Close My Eyes"
  8. "Leigh Creek Road"
  9. "Clancy of the Overflow"
  10. "Eyes on Fire"
  11. "Roll on the Day"
  12. "If the war goes on"
  13. "One True Game"

Songs

1I Was Only 19 (A Walk in the Light Green)4:19
2Borrowed Ground4:24
3Holy Mary5:28

References

Portrait: The Very Best of John Schumann Wikipedia
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