Wednesday, August 16, 2006

"Sunshine to Rain" Dragon Liberation Blues Acoustic Series


Today I picked up a copy [recent CD embargo broken] of the Liberation Series latest from Dragon with the very capable Mark Williams singing for the late and lamented Marc Hunter!!

It's brilliant... at rendering these Dragon classics
at breathing new life into some inspired lyrics
at reminding me of my angst driven and simpler days in late High School and early work and part time Uni years!!
Confusion over who I wanted to snog, spend time with, have as a friend [as if in rewriting history it were only up to me] time on our hands, lazy days listening to vinyl on turntable and a memorable Civic Park Mattara Concert!!

Plus the ill fated foray into Dragon of Tommy Emanuel who fitted "like a fish on a bicycle" and the ego of Alan Mansfield and his Toto inspired keyboard dominance of their last couple of half decent recordings!!
I was and am an unashamed Dragon fan... including their the heady days of drink, drugs and appearances on "Countdown"...

Tracks
1 Sunshine
2 Speak No Evil
3 April Sun In Cuba
4 Are You Old Enough?
5 Body & The Beat
6 Wilder World
7 Still In Love
8 Dreams Of Ordinary Men
9 Get That Jive
10 Magic
11 Age Of Reason (Marc Hunter & Bella Hunter) A REDEEMING VERSION THAT'LL GET A RUN WITH ME IN MY RARITIES AND GREAT TRACKS ELECTIVE COMING TO A CONVENTION NEAR YOU!! AND MAYBE EVEN A BIG SCREEN WORSHIP SOMEWHERE!!
12 Promises
13 This Time
14 Young Years
15 Celebrate
16 Rain
17 Age Of Reason (Hidden)

While Michael Gudinski invented this idea out of the necessity of a shrinking CD market, it has been a masterstroke and has enlivened the careers of a number of performers and bands as featured on http://www.acousticseries.com.au/FrontPage.htm

Michael Spiby, Jenny Morris, and Choirboys have recently toured with Dragon to promote releases from all the above!

No comments: