Cat. No. 2745: REDGUM ~ THE ESSENTIAL REDGUM. SONY MUSIC 19075967442.

REDGUM WERE AN AUSTRALIAN FOLK AND POLITICAL GROUP FORMED IN ADELAIDE, SOUTH AUSTRALIA IN 1975. THEY ARE BEST KNOWN FOR THEIR PROTEST SONG EXPLORING THE IMPACT OF WAR IN THE 1980s, “I WAS ONLY 19” AKA “A WALK IN THE LIGHT GREEN” RELEASED IN MARCH 1983 AND HIT NUMBER ONE ON THE AUSTRALIAN SINGLES CHART. THE SONG PRECIPITATED A ROYAL COMMISSION INTO THE USE AND EFFECTS OF CHEMICAL AGENTS IN THE VIETNAM WAR BY THE AUSTRALIAN MILITARY. THE BAND RECORDED FIVE STUDIO ALBUMS AND ONE “LIVE” ALBUM BEFORE DISBANDING IN 1990. THERE HAS BEEN A SUBSEQUENT RELEASE IN 2017 ON BLACK BOX RECORDS OF A LIVE CONCERT PERFORMED IN MELKWEG, AMSTERDAM IN 1985. GREAT *****

TRACK LISTING: CD1 – Poor Ned / Servin USA / Killing Flour / Beaumont Rag / One More Boring Night In Adelaide / Carrington Cabaret / H.M.A.S Australia / Maria / Ted / It Doesn’t Matter To Me / Virgin Ground / Domination Quickstep / Stewie / Nuclear Cop / Long Run / 100 Years On / Brown Rice And Kerosine / Lear Jets Over Kulgera / The Last Frontier.

CD2 – Where Ya Gonna Run To / Caught In The Act / Yarralumla Wine / The Federal Two-Ring Circus / Working Girls / Fabulon / The Diamantina Drover / I Was Only 19 (A Walk In The Light Green) / I’ve Been To Bali Too / ASIO / Friday Night / Spirit Of The Land / Gladstone Pier / Still Life / Just Another Moment On Your Own / The Drovers’ Dog / Running With The Hurricane / When Your Luck Ran Out / Blood Upon The Rain.

2CD SET