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An Australian sextet, Little River Band's debut album sounds as American as anything by the Eagles or the Doobie Brothers, and is driven by "It's a Long Way There" -- whose eight and a half minutes of crunchy electric guitars, luminous acoustic guitar, and smooth harmonizing is spread across a musically dramatic arc that is worth every second of its running time. This is an astonishingly strong debut album. There aren't any surprises, just seven more eminently enjoyable if slightly looser structured mainstream rock songs in the same vein, inventive where they had to be (like on the solos or the variations on the extended choruses), all more modestly proportioned than the hit and thoroughly enjoyable. Guitarist Graham Goble dominated the songwriting with the single and "I Know It," but singer Glenn Shorrock contributed significantly with the delightfully exuberant "Emma" and the hauntingly beautiful movie-within-a-song "The Man in Black," and guitarist Beeb Birtles showed himself no slouch in the ballad department with "I'll Always Call Your Name," which overstays its welcome by about 30 seconds but is otherwise nice and catchy. [The remastering job on the 2001 reissue by Australian EMI is also first-rate, capturing the group's loud, punchy sound and decent annotation about the band's roots and origins.]
© Bruce Eder /TiVo
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Graham Goble, Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar, Additional Vocals, Vocal Arranger, AssociatedPerformer - Graeham Goble, ComposerLyricist - Beeb Birtles, Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar, Additional Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - Glenn Shorrock, Vocals, Additional Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - Little River Band, Producer, MainArtist - Peter Jones, Conductor, String Arranger, Strings Conductor, AssociatedPerformer - Ross Cockle, Mixer, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra - Derek Pellicci, Drum, AssociatedPerformer - Riccardo Formosa, Electric Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Roger McLachlan, Bass, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 2010 EMI Recorded Music Australia Pty Ltd.
Graham Goble, Electric Guitar, Additional Vocals, Vocal Arranger, AssociatedPerformer - Beeb Birtles, Composer, Electric Guitar, Additional Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - Glenn Shorrock, Vocals, Additional Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - Little River Band, Producer, MainArtist - Ross Cockle, Mixer, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Derek Pellicci, Drums, Bongos, Timbales , AssociatedPerformer - Riccardo Formosa, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Roger McLachlan, Bass Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Geoff Skewes, Clavichord, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 2010 EMI Recorded Music Australia Pty Ltd.
Glenn Shorrock, Composer - Little River Band, Vocals, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 2010 EMI Recorded Music Australia Pty Ltd.
Graham Goble, Electric Guitar, Vocals, Vocal Arranger, AssociatedPerformer - Graeham Goble, Composer - Beeb Birtles, Electric Guitar, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - Glenn Shorrock, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - Little River Band, Producer, MainArtist - Peter Jones, Conductor, String Arranger, Hammond Organ, Rhodes , AssociatedPerformer - Ross Cockle, Mixer, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra - Derek Pellicci, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - Riccardo Formosa, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Roger McLachlan, Bass, AssociatedPerformer - Col Lauchnan, Saxophone, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 2010 EMI Recorded Music Australia Pty Ltd.
Graham Goble, Acoustic Guitar, Vocals, Vocal Arranger, AssociatedPerformer - Beeb Birtles, Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Glenn Shorrock, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - Little River Band, Producer, MainArtist - Peter Jones, Conductor, String Arranger, AssociatedPerformer - Ross Cockle, Mixer, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra - Derek Pellicci, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - Riccardo Formosa, Guitar, Slide Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Roger McLachlan, Bass, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 2010 EMI Recorded Music Australia Pty Ltd.
Graham Goble, Acoustic Guitar, Additional Vocals, Vocal Arranger, AssociatedPerformer - Beeb Birtles, Electric Guitar, Additional Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - Glenn Shorrock, Composer, Vocals, Additional Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - Little River Band, Producer, MainArtist - Ian Mason, Piano, AssociatedPerformer - Ross Cockle, Mixer, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Derek Pellicci, Drums, Clapping, AssociatedPerformer - Riccardo Formosa, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Roger McLachlan, Bass, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 2010 EMI Recorded Music Australia Pty Ltd.
Glenn Shorrock, Composer - Little River Band, Vocals, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 2010 EMI Recorded Music Australia Pty Ltd.
Glenn Shorrock, Composer - Little River Band, Vocals, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 2010 EMI Recorded Music Australia Pty Ltd.
John Farnham, Additional Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - Graham Goble, Producer, Acoustic Guitar, Vocals, Additional Vocals, Vocal Arranger, AssociatedPerformer - Graeham Goble, Composer - Beeb Birtles, Acoustic Guitar, Vocals, Additional Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - Little River Band, MainArtist - Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra - Graeme Lyall, Conductor - Ern Rose, Mixer, Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 2010 EMI Recorded Music Australia Pty Ltd.
Graeham Goble, Composer - Little River Band, Vocals, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 2010 EMI Recorded Music Australia Pty Ltd.
Beeb Birtles, Composer - Little River Band, Vocals, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 2010 EMI Recorded Music Australia Pty Ltd.
Graeham Goble, Producer - Beeb Birtles, Composer, Producer - Glenn Shorrock, Producer - Little River Band, Vocals, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 2010 EMI Recorded Music Australia Pty Ltd.
Album review
An Australian sextet, Little River Band's debut album sounds as American as anything by the Eagles or the Doobie Brothers, and is driven by "It's a Long Way There" -- whose eight and a half minutes of crunchy electric guitars, luminous acoustic guitar, and smooth harmonizing is spread across a musically dramatic arc that is worth every second of its running time. This is an astonishingly strong debut album. There aren't any surprises, just seven more eminently enjoyable if slightly looser structured mainstream rock songs in the same vein, inventive where they had to be (like on the solos or the variations on the extended choruses), all more modestly proportioned than the hit and thoroughly enjoyable. Guitarist Graham Goble dominated the songwriting with the single and "I Know It," but singer Glenn Shorrock contributed significantly with the delightfully exuberant "Emma" and the hauntingly beautiful movie-within-a-song "The Man in Black," and guitarist Beeb Birtles showed himself no slouch in the ballad department with "I'll Always Call Your Name," which overstays its welcome by about 30 seconds but is otherwise nice and catchy. [The remastering job on the 2001 reissue by Australian EMI is also first-rate, capturing the group's loud, punchy sound and decent annotation about the band's roots and origins.]
© Bruce Eder /TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 12 track(s)
- Total length: 00:55:58
- Main artists: Little River Band
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: EMI Recorded Music Australia Pty Ltd
- Genre: Pop/Rock Rock
© 1975 EMI Recorded Music Australia Pty Ltd. ℗ 2010 EMI Recorded Music Australia Pty Ltd.
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