Cat. No. 2815: DAVE HOLE ~ WORKING OVERTIME. BLACK CAT / SHOCK BCD1003.

Cat. No. 2815: DAVE HOLE ~ WORKING OVERTIME. BLACK CAT / SHOCK BCD1003.

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ACCORDING TO AUSTRALIAN ROCK HISTORIAN IAN McFARLANE, "DAVE HOLE IS THE MOST ACCLAIMED BLUES GUITARIST AUSTRALIA HAS EVER PRODUCED, COURTESY OF HIS UNORTHODOX SLIDE GUITAR STYLE, HIS ROUSING LIVE SHOWS AND A SERIES OF HARD-ROCKING, ROADHOUSE BLUES ALBUMS".

DAVE FORMED HIS FIRST BAND, "BROKEN HABITS" IN 1965 AND A YEAR LATER CREATED HIS EARLIEST VERSION OF THE DAVE HOLE BAND. IN 1968, HE JOINED THE "BEAT 'N TRACKS". THE GROUP WON THE 1968 PERTH HEAT OF THE NATIONAL HOADLEY'S BATTLE OF THE SOUNDS AND TRAVELLED TO MELBOURNE FOR THE FINAL. LATER THAT YEAR DAVE RETURNED TO PERTH TO COMPLETE HIS UNIVERSITY STUDIES. IN 1972, HE FORMED DAVE HOLE BLUES BAND WITH DARYL UPSON AND AL KASH. THE TRIO RELOCATED TO LONDON AND PLAYED IN LOCAL PUBS. DAVE RETURNED TO PERTH IN 1974 AND FOR THE NEXT TWENTY YEARS HE TOURED THE WESTERN AUSTRALIA PUB CIRCUIT WITH DIFFERING LINE-UPS OF DAVE HOLE BAND.

IN 1990, DAVE RELEASED THE HIGHLY ACCLAIMED ALBUM "SHORT FUSE BLUES" WHICH DAVE HAD FINANCED, PRODUCED AND RECORDED IN THREE DAYS. A COPY OF THE ALBUM ENDED UP IN THE HANDS OF ALLIGATOR RECORDS PRESIDENT BRUCE IGLAUER WHO SIGNED DAVE UP AS THE FIRST NON-US-BASED ARTIST. THIS ALBUM WAS DAVE'S FOURTH STUDIO ALBUM ORIGINALLY RELEASED IN 1993 ON THE FESTIVAL LABEL. THIS IS A RE-ISSUED VERSION ON BLACK CAT / SHOCK RECORDS.

TRACK LISTING: Nobody Hears Me Crying / You're Gonna Reap Everything You Sow / Stormy Seas / Mean Ole Airplane / Working Overtime / Key To The Highway / Up All Night Thinking / I Can't Be Satisfied / Twenty Years / Crazy Kind Of Woman / Let's Get Loose / Berwick Road.

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