ABOUT THE CDs
I am very happy to announce the release of my new CD Journey's End on Rouseabout Records via Undercover Music. it contains fifteen original songs, including musical settings for three special poems. I always appreciate having somewhere to return to at the end of a journey. That place is called 'home' and for me that happens to be in the Blue Mountains NSW. The memories gathered from the places visited, the people met and the new things discovered sooner or later start to inhabit my mind, inspiring thoughts and ideas that sometimes then develop into songs. And the songs on this new CD have travelled these various pathways. Some began on the journey, some were finished before the journey ended and some were ideas that needed more time to develop when the journey was long over. Two Blue Mountains songs serve as appropriate bookends for the other songs. The opening song Half an Hour From Midnight snapshots the years spent singing in local restaurants. A new mix of Journey's End, the title song, seemed the obvious choice to conclude the CD. It's always a special privilege to have your songs reach the recording stage. I have again been very fortunate to collaborate with Chloe and Jason Roweth. During the recording, I appreciated the enthusiasm and sensitivity given to each song by these two very talented musicians. Recorded in their home studio in Millthorpe, central western NSW, I was constantly delighted with the results of their innovative, musical decisions. Listen for the subtle, oriental echoes that enhance my song about the plight of a Chinese gold digger in Just Fair Game and the evocative suggestion of a child's music box that can be heard in A Special Place. And I'm sure the old time, Australian country music feel that the Roweths recreate in the song The Man With the Smile and Song, would have greatly impressed Smoky Dawson, the subject of the song. |
JOURNEY'S END TRACK LIST
2. At Bogan Gate 3. The Loch Ard 4. The Man With the Smile and Song 5. The Broken Soldier 6. Just Fair Game 7. Tooraweenah 8. A Strange Dream 9. Honour My God 10. There is a Green Hill 11. From Oakland to Brisbane 12. A Special Place 13. Keeping to Uncle Tom's Time 14. Polly Flood 15. Journey's End All words and music © Jim Low except the words to At Bogan Gate by Jim Butler, Tooraweenah by Hod Cay and A Strange Dream by Jim Harper. Recorded mixed and mastered in Millthorpe NSW by Chloë and Jason Roweth. The lyrics are included in the 20 page booklet which was designed by Jim's daughter Susannah Low in her Briar Hill, Vic studio.
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Across the Blue Mountains is Jim's second album on Rouseabout Records released via Undercover Music. The CD contains 18 songs about the Blue Mountains. The Blue Mountains of New South Wales have been an inspiration for many of my songs. I have lived here for almost two thirds of my life. Some of these songs are direct responses to the unique beauty and grandeur of the Mountains. I value living here, enjoy walking in the bushland and have developed a loving respect for this place I call home. I am continually excited by what I see and hear around me. There is always something new to learn about the Mountains. The human impact has made this area rich in history and I have tried to capture some of this history in my songs. But reading the history has also made me aware of the fragility of the Mountains. They have been marked in many devastating ways by human hands. However, I believe that they have a capacity to survive. I have seen the resilience of the landscape after a bushfire. I have also enjoyed adapting and sharing the responses of others to the Mountains through conversation, poetry, song and oral history recording. There is so much to appreciate about this area and there are countless stories still to tell. |
ACROSS THE BLUE MOUNTAINS TRACK LIST
2. From the Days of the Dinosaur 3. The Quest 4. Seven Men and Four Horses 5. To Cross the Mountains 6. George Evans 7. William Cox 8. Mrs Elizabeth Hawkins 9. The Pioneer Way 11. Railway to the Sky 12. Old Mr Murphy 13. One of the Battlers 14.There's A Fire 15.The Bush 16. With the Poet Lorikeet 17. The Wattle 18. Journey's End More information on the special site: Across the Blue Mountains - acrossthebluemountains.com.au Words and music © Jim Low except Blue Mountain Blue by Alan Chinn and the words to The Bush by James Lister Cuthbertson. Recorded mixed and mastered in Millthorpe NSW by Chloë and Jason Roweth. The lyrics are included in the 20 page booklet which was designed by Jim's daughter Susannah Low in her Briar Hill, Vic studio.
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Review by Jenny Watson Review by Margaret Bradford |
THE FURTHER I TRAVEL TRACK LIST
2. Boyd's Tower 3. Boundaries 4. Dreaming With Open Eye [background] 5. The Further I Travel 6. The King (1907) 7. Pennyweight Flat 8. Myall Creek Station 9. Engines of the Southern Cross 10. Luna Park 11. Songs of Peace 12. Dancing in the Dust 13. When Angledool Was Young 14. Mr Eternity Words and music © Jim Low except the words to The King and When Angledool Was Young which are based on poems by Jim Harper. Recorded mixed and mastered in Millthorpe NSW by Chloë and Jason Roweth. The lyrics are included in the 20 page booklet which was designed by Jim's daughter Susannah Low in her Briar Hill, Vic studio. Performing on the CD are:
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