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Three years in the making, Big Water, a new album by Penny Davies and Roger Ilott, is set to enchant fans in Australia and elsewhere with fourteen thoughtful and musical tracks.
Big Water starts with one of Roger's compositions, Turn The World Around– a persuasive plea for change – and ends with the Pete Seeger classic (Roger's “all time favourite song”) Turn! Turn! Turn!' forty years old this year, with its message of inexorable change.
“There is a pleasing symmetry about the album,” Roger notes. Indeed, elemental change and a strong sense of community embrace the other tracks.
They range through the poignant story of an orchardist forced to bulldoze his trees (Pushing It Down), to the nostalgic memoir of‘Rusty Dusty Days, a reference to the band in which Roger and the bass player on this album, Jed Hudson, almost made the big time in Sydney during the 1970s.
Jed's return, along with the participation of Roger and Penny's son Jordy Davies-Ilott on drums, Dobro slide guitar and back-up vocals, mark a creative change from the duo's previous albums. “There is more orchestration and more of a folk rock feel than our previous work,” Roger observes. There are also country music touches.
As their fans have come to expect, the album, their sixteenth, is carefully crafted. “We put a lot of work into the detail of writing and production,” Penny observes. “The album changed shape many times during production and we particularly wanted to create lyrics that people would connect with.”
Penny and Roger do not preach: their songs are narratives that inform in the way that a reporter does. This is illustrated in the title track Big Water, “a hymn to our precious rivers,” that Penny and Roger wrote together.
Co-incidence was responsible for When The Cooper's Coming Down. This is a vivid poem by Max Fatchen which Roger was listening to on ABC Radio's Australia All Over one Sunday morning, thinking it would make a great song.
Unbeknownst to him, after the show Max was on the phone to the program's host, Ian McNamara, who made the same suggestion. Max said “Penny and Roger are the ones to do it”. And, by golly, they did!
Complete Track list:Big Water; Turn The World Around; Pushing It Down; Werris Creek; Rusty Dusty Days; When The Cooper’s Coming Down; The Humpback Whale; Listen To The Wind; The Angler; The Magpies Said; Back To The Sea Again, Johnny; The Hills And Rocks Of Home; The Once-Great Railway Family; Turn! Turn! Turn!
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A very folky mix of songs from Penny Davies & Roger Ilott, including two new songs from BILL SCOTT (with music by Roger Ilott); the comedic fishing tale Plastic Container Of Plonk, a song for World Peace, The Light Of The Star and the wonderful sailors song, The Long Haul..
There are also two songs from South Australian poet MAX FATCHEN (also with music by Roger); a pointed, yet light-hearted dig at what is happening to our rivers with Dont Let The Murray Run Dry and a song of the road The Listening Land..
The works of many other Australian songwriters and poets are also featured, including Douglas Stewart, John Broomhall, Arthur Copeland, Keighly Goodchild, and Paul Best.
Penny and Roger have written some new songs too; a short history of a short railway The Injune Railway, a story of love for a faithful companion in My Old Dog And I, a historical romp through the early tin mining days of Queensland with 60 Miles From Cunninghams Gap, a thoughtful look at the journey of life in Stay On Shore , a painterly image of winter in the Queensland mountains with Frost On The Wattle, a comment on making the most of what youve got in the title track Just A Bit Of Quartz, and a song for us all with Sow The Seeds of Love.
Roger has also been busy writing melodies to some Australian poems: A Nautical Yarn, and The Western Mail . We also have classic versions of Douglas Stewart & John Broomhalls The Net, Paul Bestss Love Is A Lifeline and the old hit Stardust.
JUST A BIT OF QUARTZ is a colourful musical tramp around the wide landscape of Australia, - see the sights, listen to the sounds, learn some history, have a laugh and meet some wonderful and thought-provoking characters.
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HEART OF TOWN celebrates Penny & Rogers 25th Year of Harmony. They have always shared a love of folk music and have been writing songs and performing together since 1980 when they began recording their first album in their living room in Balmain, NSW. They went on to record two more of their own albums before moving to Stanthorpe, Queensland, in 1987 and building a studio in their old Queenslander overlooking Storm King Dam.
Track List: The GST Calypso , Caboolture Days , On Top Of High Peak ,Don't Let 'Em Close Our Mill, Whenever You Come My Way, If I Could, A Fisherman Bold, The Lighthouse, Out Of Sight, Here And Now, Old Nugget, We'll Meet On The Shore, Ups And Downs, The Southern Cross, The Marree Line, Who Knows Where The Time Goes, Call It Flamin' Hot! The Brandy Tree, Turn Again.
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