Dog Songs (cover)

Buy Now (2020 original release album):

A collection of favourite tunes from Jack Howard’s residency at the Dogs Bar in St Kilda.

Released In: [Australia / NZ].

Release Date: 3 September 2020.

Australian Chart Position: N/A.

Availability: Moderately common. Available new in CD and digital forms.

Value: A$15-A$30.

Track Listing(s)

Legend:

 Commercial single.
 Promotional single.

Version: Independent Australian CD album.

Album length: 56 minutes, 54 seconds.

ReplayGain loudness: -8.49dB (2020).

1. Reason To Believe
2. Let Me Live
3. City Lights
4. Melbourne
5. Simple Men
6. Restlessness
7. Panic In The City
8. Frankenstein
9. Red Rose
10. Home
11. Portland
12. Sydney
13. Montreal

Version: Independent Australian digital album.

Album length: 57 minutes, 11 seconds.

ReplayGain loudness: -8.45dB (2020).

1. Reason To Believe
2. Let Me Live
3. City Lights
4. Melbourne
5. Simple Men
6. Restlessness
7. Panic In The City
8. Frankenstein
9. Red Rose
10. Home
11. Coz I Love You
12. Who Is He?
13. Sharp-Dressed Man

Review

N/A.

Liner Notes

Dog Songs is a “best of” our Dogs Bar St. Kilda residency (now into its fourth year). We play there once a month on a Sunday and it has really led to the re-generation of The Brothers (and a Sister) and of my own music. It’s a dancing crowd but also a listening one and the punters love the originals as much as the cheesy covers that we occasionally break into.

All tracks were recorded late 2019/early 2020 at Hothouse Audio with Craig Harnath and Gez Giddings. Craig also mixed and mastered them.

The band has grown from strength to strength over this time. Cal McAlpine plays drums, Rob Walker plays bass, Ed Bates plays pedal steel, Nicky Del Rey plays guitars, sings backing vocals and sings lead here on Sharp-Dressed Man; and Fiona Lee Maynard plays percussion, sings backing vocals and sings lead here on Red Rose and Coz I Love You. Amy Valent Curlis, our unofficial second sister, plays congas, hubcaps, castanets and various bits of metal. I sing and play trumpet and flugel horn.

Some of these songs are brand new. Some are old favourites going right back to the first steps I took into a solo career post-H & C. I wrote all of them except for Frankenstein (Gary Burgess)… more
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releases September 3, 2020

Jack Howard – vocals, trumpet and flugel horn
Nicky Del Rey – guitar, backing vocals, lead vocal on Sharp-Dressed Man
Ed Bates – pedal steel
Rob Walker – bass
Cal McAlpine – drums
Fiona Lee Maynard – backing vocals, percussion, lead vocals on Red Rose and Coz I Love You
Amy Valent Curlis – congas, hubcap, castanets, bowed cymbal, triangle

Engineer – Gez Giddings
Production and mastering – Craig Harnath at Hothouse Audio
Artwork – Jack Howard
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