Don Walker - Lightning In A Clear Blue Sky

Bitrate:320K/s
Year:2023
Time:38:05 
Size:103,1 MB 
Label:Palomarr Pty Ltd ATF the Don Walker Trust 
Styles:Aussie Blues/Singer-Songwriter 
Art:Front 

Tracks Listing:
 1. Empty Dance-Hall -  3:02
 2. Jungle Pam -  4:30
 3. When I Win The Lottery -  4:01
 4. My Maleva -  3:34
 5. Tommy Hanlon's Motor Home -  3:54
 6. Lightning In A Clear Blue Sky - 11:32
 7. You've Got To Move -  4:06
 8. Damaged People -  3:23

"Lightning In A Clear Blue Sky" is the fourth album by Australian musician Don Walker, released in 2023. It debuted at number 2 on the Australian Independent charts.Don Walker had been the main songwriter and keyboardist with successful Australian rock band Cold Chisel. When they split in 1983, Walker had intended to retire from the music industry. In 1988, he released his first of two albums under the name Catfish. In 1995, he released the first album under his own name. As well as his occasional solo records, he recorded with a reformed Cold Chisel and as a member of Tex, Don and Charlie.Guitarist Glen Hannah, a member of Walker's backing band, the Suave Fucks, died in 2019. Other guitarist, Roy Payne, took on a larger role. Walker said, "We pretty much rebuilt our little band around Roy. So the album was all based around the way that Roy plays guitar."  Recording was mostly done over two sessions in early 2022. Walker said, "It was just me and the band in a little room somewhere, just glad to be out of Covid and getting to see each other. Hamish and Michael have been on board for about 15 years; Gareth Costigan, I have been working with for around 30 years or more; and Roy Payne for about 20 years."  Amanda Roff, Erica Dunn and Brigitte Hart from the band Harmony performed as backing singers. Walker said, "I had been a fan of the Melbourne band, Tom Lyngcoln's Harmony, and their setup is a three piece punk band with three angelic singers – The Harmonettes – so I contacted them about working on the title song and then I thought to use them on shorter and easier songs."Walker described them as unlike traditional soul backing singers, being more "European" and "cold". The eleven-minute title track was recorded in one take except for the trumpet section. Walker said months later he had a "typical middle-of-the-night idea: Wouldn't it be good to have mariachi trumpets on it? We tracked down Edgar Sanchez in Mexico City. He's not a jazz trumpeter moonlighting." Payne died in July 2022, after the recording of the album. Walker said, "He had an innocent cut in one leg, then he felt sick, went to hospital and he was gone in two days." Shannon Bourne filled Payne's role on the following tour. Walker said of Payne, "Clearly he was a very close friend, not only of the existing band, but he was a good friend of Shannon Bourne. He was an amazing man, one of the most remarkable people I ever spent time with".

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