I Shall Be Released: Best of [Import]

1. Moment In Time

2. The Old Mans Gone

3. Age Of Grace

4. Walk On

5. Time On His Hands

6. Down On The Farm

7. Pride

8. Very Good Song

9. Mysterious Ways

10. Touch Of Water

11. Rain On A Tin Roof

12. Kimberely Moon

13. Cloncurry Cattle Song

14. Come Back Soon

15. Guardian Angels

16. The Valley

17. Way Out West

18. Blue Heeler

19. This Road

20. I Shall Be Released

Editorial Reviews

Product Description
Definitive best of collection from one of Australia's premier country artist features 20 tracks. EMI. 2001.

Tracks:

Moment In Time
The Old Mans Gone
Age Of Grace
Walk On
Time On His Hands
Down On The Farm
Pride
Very Good Song
Mysterious Ways
Touch Of Water
Rain On A Tin Roof
Kimberely Moon
Cloncurry Cattle Song
Come Back Soon
Guardian Angels
The Valley
Way Out West
Blue Heeler
This Road
I Shall Be Released

Album Description

Definitive best of collection from one of Australia's premier country artist features 20 tracks. EMI. 2001.

Album Details

20 Track Anthology of the Famed Australian Country Artist.

Customer Reviews:

An Excellent Collection.......2007-02-07

As I've written elsewhere, I first heard of James Blundell when working a country station, and we played some of his earlier songs. In fact, some of those songs are rightly here. Blundell is credited widely with bringing a younger generation around to country music, at least in his native Australia. What I'm glad to hear after coming across this collection is that he's not sold out, his music remains what he wants it to be, well written, not over-produced and passionate.

As I recall, his first sojourn into Nashville in '91 or so was not to his liking. He rejected the Nashville production machine which has in my view pretty much throttled country music over the past couple of decades and continued his own way.

In any case, this is a wide-ranging examination of Blundell's best tuneage, leaving off at his recent "Deluge." I can load this sucker into my CD player and leave it on repeat. "The Blue Heeler" was that song we gave a push to back then, and it's here, along with "Time On His Hand" and "Age of Grace," all from the "Hand It Down" album.

Among work from his other recordings, "Cloncurry Cattle Song" is a country history lesson of that region (Blundell was a former cattleman until an unimpressed bull decided to have something to say about it, I'm told), "Rain on a Tin Roof" is a subtle but pretty love song; "Kimberly Moon" almost sounds like jazz, but very nice. Can't forget the Dylan cover; he sang it well, and I liked how his backing band fit themselves under. Really well done.

You can't go wrong with this collection, believe you me.

Music Album:

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