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Landlocked, Faithless & Free - 30th Anniversary Reissue

by Chris Wilson

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  • Record/Vinyl + Digital Album

    Disc one - black vinyl, disc two - opaque yellow vinyl. The vinyl album contains 16 tracks. The vinyl comes with a digital download card for all 20 tracks, and all 20 tracks are also added to your Bandcamp library on release day.

    Includes unlimited streaming of Landlocked, Faithless & Free - 30th Anniversary Reissue via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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      $70 AUD or more 

     

  • Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album

    The double CD contains all 20 tracks. These tracks will also be added to your Bandcamp library. CDs will ship from around December 22nd. We apologise for the delay in the pressing process.

    Includes unlimited streaming of Landlocked, Faithless & Free - 30th Anniversary Reissue via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
    ships out within 7 days
    Purchasable with gift card

      $25 AUD or more 

     

  • Streaming + Download

    Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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      $18 AUD  or more

     

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The Big One 03:33
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Wolves 05:26
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Rose Tattoo 04:30
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Hard Land 03:48
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Wreckage 04:32
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Mask 02:24
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Landlocked 04:28
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Summertime 07:58
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Ghost Ships 03:50
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Cheersquad Records & Tapes are stoked to present Chris Wilson’s Landlocked, Faithless & Free, a very special 30th Anniversary Reissue that sees Chris Wilson's original 1992 album Landlocked released on vinyl for the first time and expanded to a double LP/double CD, with the inclusion of tracks from the associated CD EPs The Big One and Alimony Blues.

Landlocked was Chris Wilson's first solo album, and it saw Wilson nominated for two ARIA Awards - for Best Male Artist and Breakthrough Artist, Album - and acclaimed by Rolling Stone as a “major talent”. It followed his releases with the Crown of Thorns and Pub Dogs (see Cheersquad's 2022 reissue of the Pub Dogs’ Scatter's Liver), and preceded the classic live album Live at The Continental (which belatedly made the ARIA Top 20 album charts when reissued by Cheersquad in 2020).

Landlocked was co-produced by Wilson, engineer Doug Roberts and guitarist Shane O'Mara, who is also known for his work with Paul Kelly amongst many others, including new Cheersquad signing, The Silversound. The rhythm section comprised Chris' faithful sideman Chris 'Dodgy' Rogers on bass and erstwhile Paul Kelly drummer Peter Luscombe. Jen Anderson (Black Sorrows, Weddings Parties Anything) guested on violin, Evil Graham Lee (Triffids) on pedal steel and Rebecca Barnard (Rebecca's Empire etc) on vocals.

The magnificent vinyl double album contains sixteen tracks, four more than the original CD. The double CD has 20 tracks.

The vinyl contains the original CD release's twelve tracks, plus fine covers of The Saints' “Ghost Ships”, Albert King's “Born Under a Bad Sign” (Max Crawdaddy still opens his blues show on 3RRR with it every week) and two stunning live medleys - Sly & The Family Stone's “Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin)” with Junior Walker's “Shotgun”, and Kansas Joe & Memphis Minnie's “When The Levee Breaks” with John Lee Hooker's “Burning Hell”. The double LP comes on black (disc one) and opaque yellow (disc two) vinyl.

The double CD adds the four extra tracks: a live recording of “Wreckage”, and studio recordings of Gershwin's “Summertime”, Bill Withers' “Ain’t No Sunshine” and the jazz standard “Bye Bye Blackbird”, a song Chris' mum Bet requested he record.

Chris Wilson, who passed away on January 16, 2019, was inducted into the Music Victoria Hall of Fame by Paul Kelly in December 2020. Wilson had been an enormous presence over decades on Melbourne’s vibrant live scene. He worked as a solo artist and alongside a host of artists including Diesel, X, Hunters & Collectors, Vika and Linda, Crowded House and Paul Kelly & The Messengers. He started out in R&B pub band the Sole Twisters and came to prominence in the mid-80s as a member of Melbourne post-punk blues band Harem Scarem. His distinctive harp playing can be heard on the classic Paul Kelly albums Gossip and Under the Sun - on the track “Dumb Things” in particular - and he toured the US with Kelly as a fully-fledged Messenger in 1987. He formed his own band, Crown of Thorns the same year.

Chris' musical legacy is now in the care of country-singing wife Sarah Carroll - of Git fame and more - and sons Fenn Wilson and George Carroll Wilson, both of whom are now establishing themselves as strong artists in their own right (George under the name Pollyman and as a member of the up-and-coming Bones & Jones).

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released December 16, 2022

Produced by Chris Wilson, Doug Roberts and Shane O'Mara.
Engineered by Doug Roberts, assisted by Mat and Spiro.
Recorded and mixed at Metropolis Audio, Melbourne 1991 - 1992.

Ghost Ships, recorded by David McLuney at Atlantis Studios, featuring Dror Erez on piano.

When the Levee Breaks / Burning Hell and Wreckage (Live), recorded for Triple J Sunday Sessions.

Born Under a Bad Sign (Live) and Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin), recorded for Triple J Live At The Wireless.
Produced and engineered by Philip McKellar.
Executive Producer Chris Thompson.
Triple J Sunday Sessions and Live At The Wireless are Triple J Recordings.

Reissue Photography, Pierre Baroni, Piers Buxton, Tony Proudfoot & Jason Rosewarne.
Reissue Design, Piers Buxton.

All songs written by Chris Wilson (Mushroom Music Publishing) unless otherwise stated.

The musicians:
Chris Wilson - vocals and harmonica.
Shane O’Mara - electric, acoustic and lap steel guitars and organ.
Peter Luscombe - drums and percussion.
Chris Rogers - bass.

Guests:
Graham Lee - pedal steel on Wreckage and Alimony Blues.
Jen Anderson - violin on World Keeps Moving Sideways.
Rebecca Barnard - vocals on Big Mouth and World Keeps Moving Sideways.

Thanks to Bet, Joe, Andrew, Julie, Kate, Simone, Max Crawdaddy, Barb, Sue and The Roughies, Chris Thompson, Dror Erez, The Punters Club and Kenny, Mark and Rob Furst, Jodie Cousins, Barry and Craig Palmer, Kerri Simpson, Peter Jones, Evil Graham Lee, Marko Halstead, Doug Roberts, the staff at Metropolis, Doug and Jude Davies, Ap Johnson & Paul Kelly.

Thanks to Chris Bailey, Ian Rilen, Kjirsten Robb, Simon B, Michael Lynch, Mick Geyer and Luana, Ross Hipwell, Chris Rogers and Lee, Shane and Rebecca, Peter Luscombe, Handsome Steve Miller, Steve Lucas and Cathy Green, Red Beard and Little Josh, Jo Wilkins, Declan Cooney and Kevin.

Dedicated to Declan Palmer, Fiona Doyle and Warren Costello, Rip.

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Chris Wilson Clifton Springs, Australia

CHRIS WILSON
has been an essential part of blues and rock music in Australia since taking the stage with the Sole Twisters almost 40 years ago. Stints with Harem Scarem and Paul Kelly and the Coloured Girls followed and he formed his own band, Crown Of Thorns, in 1982.
His most recent band, Skronkadoodledoo, featured son Fenn on drums and longtime sideman Shannon Bourne on guitar.
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