Calling from a Country Phone
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| Released | 24 October 1993 | |||
| Recorded | Sunshine Studios, Brisbane, Australia | |||
| Genre | Rock | |||
| Length | 38:14 | |||
| Label | Beggars Banquet | |||
| Producer | Robert Forster | |||
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Calling from a Country Phone is the second album by former Go-Between Robert Forster, and his first self-produced disc. Drummer Glenn Thompson would later join Forster and Grant McLennan in a reformed Go-Betweens years later. The album also features Custard frontman David McCormack on lead guitar.[1]
Details[edit]
Forster had recently returned to Australia from Germany. "I came back with an agenda, because I had an album written. I wanted to come back and find some musicians in Brisbane, and I wanted to record it probably at Sunshine. There wasn't a better studio in town."[2]
Forster was unsure where to find local musicians. He said, "So I went to the one place in Brisbane where, if you’re a little bit disoriented, you’re looking for information, you’re looking for people – there’s only one place you can go. So I walked into Rockinghorse Records, and I said to Warwick Vere – who’s run the shop since 1975 – 'I need a band. I need some young musicians around town.' He told me to go to the Queens Arms on a Sunday night, down there on James Street. I walked in and there was a band on stage called COW. "[3] COW (Country or Western) were a Bob Moore band that featured Dave McCormack from Custard and future member of the Go-Betweens and Custard, Glenn Thompson. As Forster's backing band, they toured under the name the Silver Backwash.
Reception[edit]
Lisa Kearns, writing in the Melbourne Age of Forster’s ‘idiosyncratic brilliance’, praised the album as a ‘softly glowing, moody, and many-faceted concoction that gathers memories from the years Forster spent travelling the globe, from Los Angeles to Berlin.’[4]
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Track listing[edit]
All songs written by Robert Forster.
- "Atlanta Lie Low" – 3:13
- "121" – 3:28
- "The Circle" – 3:45
- "Falling Star" – 4:05
- "I Want to Be Quiet" – 3:34
- "Cat's Life" – 3:52
- "Girl to a World" – 4:18
- "Drop" – 4:08
- "Beyond Their Law" – 5:03
- "Forever & Time" – 2:48
Personnel[edit]
- Robert Forster – guitar, vocals
- John Bone – violin, piano, organ
- David McCormack – guitar
- Robert Moore – bass
- Dallas Southam – pedal steel, acoustic guitar
- Glenn Thompson – drums
References[edit]
- ^ "Calling from a Country Phone - Robert Forster | Songs, Reviews, Credits | AllMusic". AllMusic. Retrieved 7 November 2015.
- ^ Clinton Walker (1996). Stranded: The Secret History of Australian Independent Music 1977–1991. Pan MacMillan. pp. 290–91. ISBN 0-7329-0883-3.
- ^ "Robert Forster: 15 Songs About Brisbane". Collapse Board.
- ^ Lisa Kearns, ‘Robert Forster: Calling from a Country Phone’ Melbourne Age 11 June 1993 p. 31
