Donkey Serenade is an independent album released by Australian rock band Weddings Parties Anything

Weddings Parties Anything

Weddings Parties Anything were an Australian folk rock band formed in 1984 in Melbourne and continuing until 1998. Their name came from The Clash song and musicologist Billy Pinnell described their first album as the best Australian rock debut since Skyhooks' Living in the '70s.-Formation and...

 comprising four cover versions (Canada's The Lowest of the Low

The Lowest of the Low

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's "Rosy and Grey", Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan

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's "If You Gotta Go", Strange Tennants' "Grey Skies" and The Triffids

The Triffids

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' "Wide Open Road"), four new songs written or co-written by Michael Thomas and a couple of old songs re-recorded, "Nothing Left to Say".

The album (released on CD and cassette) was only available by mail order, via the band's website. The album featured a new bass player Stephen 'Irish' O'Prey, formerly of The Badloves

The Badloves

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, drummer Michael Barclay, and violinist Jen Anderson (The Black Sorrows

The Black Sorrows

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) who became an official instead of part-time member of the band.

Track listing

1. "Where the Highway Meets the Cane" (Mick Thomas) - 3:41
2. "In a City, Girl" (Stephen O'Prey, Mick Thomas) - 3:32
3. "Grey Skies" (Ian Hearn) - 3:45
4. "Rosy and Grey" (Ron Hawkins
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   ) - 5:18
5. "Wide Open Road" (David McComb
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   David Richard McComb was an Australian rock musician. He was the singer-songwriter of the Australian band, The Triffids.-Early years in Perth:...
   
   ) - 4:18
6. "Nothing Left to Say" (Mick Thomas) - 2:51
7. "A Long Time Between Drinks" (Mick Thomas, Mark Wallace) - 3:45
8. "If You Gotta Go" (Bob Dylan
   Bob Dylan
   Bob Dylan is an American singer-songwriter, musician, poet, film director and painter. He has been a major and profoundly influential figure in popular music and culture for five decades. Much of his most celebrated work dates from the 1960s when he was an informal chronicler and a seemingly...
   
   ) - 3:19
9. "In Your Memory" (Mick Thomas) - 6:17
10. "Untitled Track" - 2:40

Personnel

• Jen Anderson - mandolin, vocals
• Michael Barclay - drums, vocals
• Stephen O'Prey - bass, vocals
• Mick Thomas - guitar, mandolin, vocals
• Paul Thomas - guitar, pedal steel, vocals
• Mark Wallace - accordion, keyboards, vocals