Autumn Bone is the first full-length release from Melbourne

Melbourne

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-based singer-songwriter

Singer-songwriter

Singer-songwriters are musicians who write, compose and sing their own musical material including lyrics and melodies. As opposed to contemporary popular music singers who write their own songs, the term singer-songwriter describes a distinct form of artistry, closely associated with the...

 Clare Bowditch

Clare Bowditch

Clare Bowditch is an Australian musician from Melbourne, Victoria. She released her fourth album Modern Day Addiction via Island Records on 13 August 2010. It became both 3RRR Album of the Week and ABC Radio National's Album of the Week. MDA is the first of Bowditch's album's to enter the Top Ten...

 and her band, The Feeding Set. The album features eleven tracks, all written by Bowditch. The second single "Monday Comes" received significant air-play on Triple J

Triple J

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 as well as many independent radio stations scattered around both Melbourne and Sydney.

Track listing

1. "Autumn Bone"
2. "Buddy"
3. "Monday Comes"
4. "Who Knows Who?"
5. "Midnight Bird"
6. "Ms Unavailability (Oh, Temptation)"
7. "Hair that Red"
8. "Homage to my Dad and the ABC"
9. "Big Man"
10. "Human Being"
11. "Old Joelene"

The Feeding Set

• Clare Bowditch - vocals
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  , guitar
  Guitar
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• Libby Chow - french horn
• Marty Brown - banjo
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  , casio, cello
  Cello
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  , double bass
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  , drums
  Drum kit
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  , electric guitar, rhodes, percussion
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  , piano
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  , pump organ, violin
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  , xylophone
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• J Walker - erhu
  Erhu
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  , electric guitar, rhodes, viola
  Viola
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• Warren Bloomer - bass guitar
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Special guest musicians

• Adrian (Homer) Holmes - harmonica
  Harmonica
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• Andrew Crean
• John Hedigan - acoustic guitar
• Mark Shephard - double bass
• Peggy Frew - bass guitar
• Peter Cohen - double bass