New
Album At Last!
Through
The Cracks-Live at The Clarendon
Release
Date Nov 6th, 1998
Friday
6th November Through
The Cracks' Live at The Clarendon Sydney CD Launch
at The Henry
The Ninth Bar at The Sydney Hilton Hotel 8.30PM
Sun 8th
November
'Through The Cracks Live at The Clarendon Blue Mountains CD Launch
The Clarendon
Theatre, Lurline Street Katoomba 7PM
Through The Cracks-
Live At The Clarendon SR15
Photos: Michael Small
Retouching: Matthew Drummond and Bruce Bigalow
Album
Orders
The new live album recorded at
the Clarendon in Pat's Home town of Katoomba, NSW is now available
through the newsletter, at the gigs or on the Web. The album is
a must for those who prefer Pat solo armed only with his guitar
and those incredible background stories that are so much a part
of his songs.
The album features 11 previously
unrecorded songs including
The Road To Damascus
The Darling Downs
Teach Me The Words
Conversation as a Bloodsport
Dreams
When Your Say Goodbye
The Kelly Option
The Buskers Waltz
Acceptable Losses
Somebody Else's Slides
The Spirit Of The Southern
Shore
A Note From Uncle
Pat
Over the years I have been told
that my albums bear the dubious distinction of taking the patron
longer to read than to listen to. Now, finally, comes an album
that requires no liner notes other than the lyrics; and those
only to correct, at least in written form, the words that errant
memory or inebriation modified substantially in the performance.
The background to the songs can be avoided by programming your
CD to skip all the odd-numbered tracks. Ah, if only you could
silence me so easily at gigs! There are three small observations,
however, that are perhaps of interest.
Firstly, although 'live', this
album is not simply a re-run of songs previously presented on
studio offerings. It contains a completely new set of songs; ones
which I felt would not necessarily benefit greatly from augmentation
by a band, or which I felt were best 'live' and which had been
somewhat lost or forgotten over the years.
Secondly, these tracks represent
the last known recording of my 25 year old Maton Messiah (67-677)
which I had bought new as a young man, and on which I had written
so many songs; and my fabulous Brazilian Rosewood De Gruchy (417).
Both were stolen from my truck some months after the recording
of this album. The Angels wept. Finally, this album is fundamentally
different from our last live album recorded some ten years ago
for, in both venue and performance, I have deliberately sought
a more intimate and sober setting in keeping with the dignity
of my advancing age ( I am now 47) and the imminent arrival, of
grandfatherhood.
Return
to Pat Drummond's Homepage