I Had a New York Girlfriend
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I Had a New York Girlfriend is the third album by Robert Forster
Robert Forster (musician)
Robert Forster is an Australian singer-songwriter, best known for his work with songwriting partner Grant McLennan, with whom he co-founded The Go-Betweens.Forster grew up in Brisbane, Australia attending Brisbane Grammar School...

. It consists of cover versions.

Side one

  1. "Nature's Way" (Randy California
    Randy California
    Randy California was a guitarist, singer and songwriter and one of the original members of the rock group Spirit, formed in 1967.-Biography:...

    ) – 2:25
  2. "Broken Hearted People" (Guy Clark
    Guy Clark
    Guy Clark is an American Texas Country artist. In his career, he has released more than twenty albums, primarily on major labels. He has also written singles for other artists, including Ricky Skaggs, Steve Wariner and Rodney Crowell....

    ) – 3:47
  3. "Echo Beach
    Echo Beach
    "Echo Beach" is a song recorded by the Canadian group Martha and the Muffins in 1979. It was released as a single from their album Metro Music in 1980 and won the Juno Award for Single of the Year. It was certified gold in Canada on October 1, 1980, a month after Metro Music achieved gold status...

    " (Mark Gane) – 2:53
  4. "Tell Me That It Isn't True" (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...

    ) – 2:36
  5. "2541" (Grant Hart
    Grant Hart
    Grant Hart is an American musician, best known as the drummer and co-songwriter for the influential alternative rock and hardcore punk band Hüsker Dü. After the band's breakup in 1987, Hart formed the alternative rock trio Nova Mob, where he moved to vocals and guitar...

    ) – 3:46
  6. "Anytime
    Anytime (1921 song)
    "Anytime" is a popular song written by Herbert "Happy" Lawson. The song was published in 1939.The song is best known in a 1952 recording by Eddie Fisher...

    " (Herbert "Happy" Lawson) – 3:55

Side two

  1. "Locked Away" (Steve Jordan
    Steve Jordan (musician)
    Steve Jordan is an American multi-instrumentalist, composer, musical director and Grammy Award-winning artist, who has made a name for himself as a producer from the Bronx in New York City. A graduate of the Fiorello H...

    , Keith Richards
    Keith Richards
    Keith Richards is an English musician, songwriter, and founding member of the Rolling Stones. Rolling Stone magazine said Richards had created "rock's greatest single body of riffs", and placed him as the "10th greatest guitarist of all time." Fourteen songs written by Richards and songwriting...

    ) – 3:27
  2. "Look Out (Here Comes Tomorrow)" (Neil Diamond
    Neil Diamond
    Neil Leslie Diamond is an American singer-songwriter with a career spanning over five decades from the 1960s until the present....

    ) – 2:49
  3. "Alone
    Alone (Heart song)
    -Céline Dion version:Céline Dion covered "Alone" for her 2007 album Taking Chances. It was released as the second single in Europe and North America, and third in the United Kingdom...

    " (Tom Kelly, Billy Steinberg
    Billy Steinberg
    William Endfield "Billy" Steinberg is an American songwriter. He has achieved most of his success as part of a song writing team, most notably with Tom Kelly. He has also co-written several hit songs with Rick Nowels.-Biography:...

    ) – 3:12
  4. "Bird" (Michael Hansonis) – 4:47
  5. "Frisco Depot" (Mickey Newbury
    Mickey Newbury
    Mickey Newbury was an American songwriter, a critically acclaimed recording artist, and a member of the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame.-Biography:...

    ) – 2:36
  6. "3 A.M." (Bill Anderson, Jerry Todd) – 2:29

Personnel

  • Robert Forster – guitar, vocals, handclaps
  • Suzy Ahearn – backing vocals
  • Gordy Blair – bass
  • Warren Ellis
    Warren Ellis (musician)
    Warren Ellis is an Australian multi-instrumentalist and composer, best known for his work with Dirty Three, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds and Grinderman and his soundtrack scores with Nick Cave. He plays violin, piano, bouzouki, guitar, flute, mandolin, and tenor guitar...

     – violin
  • Dave Graney
    Dave Graney
    David John "Dave" Graney is an Australian rock musician and singer-songwriter from Mount Gambier, South Australia. Since 1979, Graney is generally accompanied by drummer, Clare Moore...

     – growl
  • Mark C. Halstead – backing vocals
  • Mick Harvey
    Mick Harvey
    Michael John Harvey , is an Australian rock musician, composer, arranger and record producer. He is best known for his long-time collaboration with the singer and songwriter Nick Cave...

     – bass, guitar, backing vocals
  • Rod Hayward – guitar
  • Graham Lee
    Graham Lee (Australian musician)
    Graham Lee is an Australian rock musician and record producer, best known as the steel guitar player of the 1980s band The Triffids, where he was nicknamed 'Evil Graham Lee'....

     – pedal steel, backing vocals
  • Clare Moore
    Clare Moore
    Clare Christina Moore is an Australian musician, songwriter, arranger, producer and performer whose principal instrument is the drums. She has also performed as a keyboard player, singer and vibraphone player...

     – drums, backing vocals, handclaps
  • Charlie Owen – guitar, dobro
  • Andy Parsons – backing vocals
  • Conway Savage
    Conway Savage
    Conway Savage is an Australian rock musician best known as pianist/organist/backing vocalist for Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds....

    – organ, piano, backing vocals, handclaps
  • Rob Snarski – backing vocals
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