Redgum
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Redgum were an Australian folk
Bush band
A bush band is a group of musicians that play traditional Australian folk music or contemporary folk music played in a traditional Australian style...
and political music group formed in Adelaide
Adelaide
Adelaide is the capital city of South Australia and the fifth-largest city in Australia. Adelaide has an estimated population of more than 1.2 million...
in 1975 by 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...
John Schumann
John Schumann
John Lewis Schumann is an Australian singer, songwriter and guitarist from Adelaide. He is best known as the lead singer for the folk group Redgum, with their chart-topping hit "I Was Only 19 ", a song exploring the psychological and medical side-effects of serving in the Australian forces during...
, Michael Atkinson
Michael Atkinson (musician)
"'Michael Atkinson'" is an Australian musician and composer. He was a member of Redgum from 1975-1987. While with Redgum he wrote many of the band's songs. After leaving Redgum he worked as a composer on Australia films and television series, including the Russell Crowe film Heaven's Burning and...
on guitar
Guitar
The guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...
s/vocals and Verity Truman on flute
Flute
The flute is a musical instrument of the woodwind family. Unlike woodwind instruments with reeds, a flute is an aerophone or reedless wind instrument that produces its sound from the flow of air across an opening...
/vocals; they were soon joined by Chris Timms on violin
Violin
The violin is a string instrument, usually with four strings tuned in perfect fifths. It is the smallest, highest-pitched member of the violin family of string instruments, which includes the viola and cello....
. All four had been students at Flinders University
Flinders University
Flinders University, , is a public university in Adelaide, South Australia. Founded in 1966, it was named in honour of navigator Matthew Flinders, who explored and surveyed the South Australian coastline in the early 19th century.The university has established a reputation as a leading research...
and together developed an intensely passionate and outspoken outlook. They are best known for their protest song
Protest song
A protest song is a song which is associated with a movement for social change and hence part of the broader category of topical songs . It may be folk, classical, or commercial in genre...
exploring the impact of war in 1983's "I Was Only Nineteen (A Walk in the Light Green)
I Was Only Nineteen
"Only Nineteen", "I Was Only Nineteen" or "A Walk in the Light Green" is the most widely recognised song by Australian folk group Redgum. The song was released in March 1983 as a single, which hit number one on the Kent Music Report Singles Chart for two weeks...
", which peaked at #1 on the National singles charts
Kent Music Report
The Kent Music Report was a weekly record chart of Australian music singles and albums which was compiled by music enthusiast David Kent from May 1974 through to 1998...
. The song is in the Australasian Performing Right Association
Australasian Performing Right Association
The Australasian Performing Right Association is a copyright collective representing New Zealand and Australian composers, lyricists and music publishers. The association's head offices located in Sydney Australia, and it has branch offices in Auckland, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide and Perth...
(APRA) list of Top 30 of All Time Best Australian Songs
APRA Top 30 Australian songs
APRA's Top 30 Australian songs between 1926 and 2001 was a list created by the Australasian Performing Right Association to celebrate its 75th anniversary...
created in 2001.
Redgum also covered Australian consumer influences on surrounding nations in 1984's "I've Been To Bali Too", both hit singles were written by Schumann. "The Diamantina Drover", written by Timms replacement, violin
Violin
The violin is a string instrument, usually with four strings tuned in perfect fifths. It is the smallest, highest-pitched member of the violin family of string instruments, which includes the viola and cello....
ist/vocalist Hugh McDonald
Hugh McDonald (Australian musician)
Hugh McDonald is an Australian musician. Active since the 1970s, he performed and recorded with The Bushwackers, The Sundowners, Moving Cloud, and The Colonials....
and "Poor Ned", written by Trevor Lucas
Trevor Lucas
Trevor George Lucas was an influential folk artist, a member of Fairport Convention and one of the founders of Fotheringay...
of Fairport Convention
Fairport Convention
Fairport Convention are an English folk rock and later electric folk band, formed in 1967 who are still recording and touring today. They are widely regarded as the most important single group in the English folk rock movement...
, are examples of their bush songs. Lucas produced their best performed album, the June 1983 live LP Caught in the Act, which peaked at #3 on the National albums chart. Schumann left the band and pursued a solo career from 1986, Atkinson left in 1987 and Redgum finally disbanded in 1990.
Since 2005 Schumann and McDonald have been performing together again as part of John Schumann and the Vagabond Crew
John Schumann and the Vagabond Crew
John Schumann and the Vagabond Crew is an Australian folk group formed in Adelaide in 2005. The band's name is taken from a line in Henry Lawson's poem "Knocking Around". Since it was founded a number of Australian musicians have been involved...
.
History
Redgum were formed in 1975 when three students at Flinders UniversityFlinders University
Flinders University, , is a public university in Adelaide, South Australia. Founded in 1966, it was named in honour of navigator Matthew Flinders, who explored and surveyed the South Australian coastline in the early 19th century.The university has established a reputation as a leading research...
, John Schumann
John Schumann
John Lewis Schumann is an Australian singer, songwriter and guitarist from Adelaide. He is best known as the lead singer for the folk group Redgum, with their chart-topping hit "I Was Only 19 ", a song exploring the psychological and medical side-effects of serving in the Australian forces during...
, Michael Atkinson
Michael Atkinson (musician)
"'Michael Atkinson'" is an Australian musician and composer. He was a member of Redgum from 1975-1987. While with Redgum he wrote many of the band's songs. After leaving Redgum he worked as a composer on Australia films and television series, including the Russell Crowe film Heaven's Burning and...
(not the future Labor politician of the same name
Michael Atkinson
Michael John Atkinson , an Australian politician, was the South Australian Attorney-General, Minister for Justice, Minister for Veterans' Affairs, and Minister for Multicultural Affairs in the Rann Labor Government. A day after the 2010 election, he stepped down as Attorney-General and resigned...
) and Verity Truman, collaborated for a musical assessment piece for their Politics and Art course. The trio quickly gained fame around the University community for their forthright songs, and by 1976 had been joined by violinist Chris Timms who had previously attended Flinders University. The group were soon in demand for parties, pubs and rallies throughout South Australia
South Australia
South Australia is a state of Australia in the southern central part of the country. It covers some of the most arid parts of the continent; with a total land area of , it is the fourth largest of Australia's six states and two territories.South Australia shares borders with all of the mainland...
and Victoria
Victoria (Australia)
Victoria is the second most populous state in Australia. Geographically the smallest mainland state, Victoria is bordered by New South Wales, South Australia, and Tasmania on Boundary Islet to the north, west and south respectively....
. Initially a part-time band, performing weekends and school holidays (two members were teachers), it was only after they released their second album, Virgin Ground
Virgin Ground
Virgin Ground is the second album by Redgum. The title is taken from the first track.It was originally released as on vinyl and cassette...
(late 1980), to strong sales and critical acclaim, that the group became full-time and started touring nationally.
Music
On the first album, If You Don't Fight You LoseIf You Don't Fight You Lose
If You Don't Fight You Lose is the first album by Redgum. The title is taken from a line in the song "Killing Floor".It was originally released on vinyl and cassette. It was very briefly available on CD in the late 80s, through a licensing deal with budget label Rainbow...
(1978) Redgum showed it was one of the few Australian bands prepared to tackle domestic politics and culture. "One More Boring Night in Adelaide" for some will remain, despite some of its dated references, a classic analysis of Australian provincial parochialism
Parochialism
Parochialism means being provincial, being narrow in scope, or considering only small sections of an issue. It may, particularly when used pejoratively, be contrasted to universalism....
. The group's success continued to grow with the release of their next three albums, Virgin Ground
Virgin Ground
Virgin Ground is the second album by Redgum. The title is taken from the first track.It was originally released as on vinyl and cassette...
, Brown Rice and Kerosene
Brown Rice and Kerosene
Brown Rice and Kerosene is the third album by Australian folk-rock group Redgum. The title is taken from the first track, and the album was released around the time Redgum changed from a part-time band to a full-time job for its members....
(1981) and the EP Cut to the Quick
Cut to the Quick
Cut to the Quick is an EP by Redgum..It was originally released as a record and has never been re-released on CD. "Working Girls" was later released on Frontline, "Fabulon", "The Diamantina Drover", and "Where Ya Gonna Run To" were included on 1983's Caught in the Act...
(September 1982), and they weathered several line-up changes including the addition of a didgeridoo
Didgeridoo
The didgeridoo is a wind instrument developed by Indigenous Australians of northern Australia around 1,500 years ago and still in widespread usage today both in Australia and around the world. It is sometimes described as a natural wooden trumpet or "drone pipe"...
and the replacement of Timms in May 1982 with Hugh McDonald
Hugh McDonald (Australian musician)
Hugh McDonald is an Australian musician. Active since the 1970s, he performed and recorded with The Bushwackers, The Sundowners, Moving Cloud, and The Colonials....
, among others. They released a songbook
Song book
A song book is a book containing lyrics and notes for songs. Song books may be simple composition books or spiral-bound notebooks. Music publishers also produced printed editions for group singing. Such volumes were used in the U.S...
The Redgum Songbook: Stubborn Words, Flagrant Vices (1981).
Collaboration with influential Australian folk producer Trevor Lucas
Trevor Lucas
Trevor George Lucas was an influential folk artist, a member of Fairport Convention and one of the founders of Fotheringay...
(from UK folk group Fairport Convention
Fairport Convention
Fairport Convention are an English folk rock and later electric folk band, formed in 1967 who are still recording and touring today. They are widely regarded as the most important single group in the English folk rock movement...
) brought the high-point of their career - the live LP Caught in the Act
Caught in the Act (Redgum album)
Caught in the Act is the fourth album by Australian folk group Redgum.. It was the only full-length live album they released. The title is taken from the sixth track, which was also featured on "Brown Rice and Kerosene"....
was released in June 1983 and "I Was Only Nineteen
I Was Only Nineteen
"Only Nineteen", "I Was Only Nineteen" or "A Walk in the Light Green" is the most widely recognised song by Australian folk group Redgum. The song was released in March 1983 as a single, which hit number one on the Kent Music Report Singles Chart for two weeks...
" aka "A Walk in the Light Green" (March 1983) hit number one on the Australian singles chart. The song precipitated a Royal Commission
Royal Commission
In Commonwealth realms and other monarchies a Royal Commission is a major ad-hoc formal public inquiry into a defined issue. They have been held in various countries such as the United Kingdom, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and Saudi Arabia...
into the use and effects of chemical agents in the Vietnam War
Vietnam War
The Vietnam War was a Cold War-era military conflict that occurred in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1 November 1955 to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975. This war followed the First Indochina War and was fought between North Vietnam, supported by its communist allies, and the government of...
by the Australian military. The album included "The Diamantina Drover" and "The Last Frontier" which are indicative of their folk music style.
The band released their next LP, Frontline
Frontline (Redgum album)
Frontline is the fifth album by the Australian folk-rock group Redgum.It was the last album that John Schumann performed on.-Track listing:#"I've Been to Bali Too"#"ASIO"#"Friday Night"#"Spirit of the Land"#"Gladstone Pier"#"Spark of the Heart"...
(August 1984) with its single "I've Been to Bali Too", and started touring folk venues in the UK and Europe with some success. Late in 1985, Schumann announced that he had signed a solo deal with CBS Records
CBS Records
CBS Records is a record label founded by CBS Corporation in 2006 to take advantage of music from its entertainment properties owned by CBS Television Studios. The initial label roster consisted of only three artists; rock band Señor Happy and singer/songwriters Will Dailey and P.J...
and would be quitting. Redgum released one more album of new material, Midnight Sun
Midnight Sun (Redgum album)
Midnight Sun is the sixth and final album by Redgum. John Schumann had left the group previously to pursue a solo career, so Hugh McDonald took over as lead singer.-Track listing:#"Talk"#"When Your Luck Ran Out"#"Running with the Hurricane"...
(1986), and a last single "Roll it on Robbie" (1987) after which Atkinson left. There were plans to release another album but this didn't occur. The remaining members performed until 1990 before breaking up.
Redgum post-Redgum
After leaving the band, Schumann released two solo albums before pursuing a brief political career with the Australian DemocratsAustralian Democrats
The Australian Democrats is an Australian political party espousing a socially liberal ideology. It was formed in 1977, by a merger of the Australia Party and the New LM, after principals of those minor parties secured the commitment of former Liberal minister Don Chipp, as a high profile leader...
, standing for the South Australian seat of Mayo
Division of Mayo
The Division of Mayo is an Australian Electoral Division located in the hills, east of Adelaide, South Australia and currently includes the towns of Victor Harbor, Lobethal, Mount Barker, Strathalbyn, Woodside and Kingscote....
in the 1998 Federal election and losing by a small margin. He left the Democrats in 2000 and returned to further solo works. Schumann returned to recording in 2005 with the Vagabond Crew
John Schumann and the Vagabond Crew
John Schumann and the Vagabond Crew is an Australian folk group formed in Adelaide in 2005. The band's name is taken from a line in Henry Lawson's poem "Knocking Around". Since it was founded a number of Australian musicians have been involved...
(which includes fellow Redgum member Hugh McDonald
Hugh McDonald (Australian musician)
Hugh McDonald is an Australian musician. Active since the 1970s, he performed and recorded with The Bushwackers, The Sundowners, Moving Cloud, and The Colonials....
) and new albums were released in 2005
Lawson (album)
Lawson is the first album by John Schumann and the Vagabond Crew. It is Schumann's first album since 1993's True Believers.It marked the first time that Schumann had worked on an album with Hugh McDonald and Michael Atkinson since Schumann left Redgum in 1986.The album consists of the poetry of...
and 2008
Behind the Lines (John Schumann album)
Behind the Lines is the second album by John Schumann and the Vagabond Crew.It consists almost entirely of cover songs and musical renditions of poems...
.
Chris Timms left to further a career in Adult Education within the Dept. of TAFE in South Australia. He was active within the Australian Labor Party
Australian Labor Party
The Australian Labor Party is an Australian political party. It has been the governing party of the Commonwealth of Australia since the 2007 federal election. Julia Gillard is the party's federal parliamentary leader and Prime Minister of Australia...
for a time.
Other members of Redgum continue to work in the Australian music scene. Atkinson
Michael Atkinson (musician)
"'Michael Atkinson'" is an Australian musician and composer. He was a member of Redgum from 1975-1987. While with Redgum he wrote many of the band's songs. After leaving Redgum he worked as a composer on Australia films and television series, including the Russell Crowe film Heaven's Burning and...
has worked in film and television. He composed the music for films including Heaven's Burning
Heaven's Burning
Heaven's Burning is a 1997 Australian film directed by Craig Lahiff and written by Louis Nowra.-Plot:Midori Takada arrives in Sydney with her new husband Yukio . She believes her marriage is a mistake and uses the honeymoon as a means to escape by walking out of their hotel room...
(1997), starring Russell Crowe.
Truman performs in Adelaide as a long time member of cabaret/cover band CrossRoads.
In 2005, Redgum were again brought to attention through the recording of an acoustic / hip hop
Hip hop music
Hip hop music, also called hip-hop, rap music or hip-hop music, is a musical genre consisting of a stylized rhythmic music that commonly accompanies rapping, a rhythmic and rhyming speech that is chanted...
cover of "I Was Only 19" by Australian group The Herd with Schumann providing some vocals. The song received high rotation on popular national radio station Triple J
Triple J
triple j is a nationally networked Australian radio station intended to appeal to listeners between the ages of 18 and 30. The government-funded station is a division of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation...
. Michael Spicer is currently teaching MIDI, Synthesis & Composition in Singapore Polytechnic.
Members
In chronological order:- Michael AtkinsonMichael Atkinson (musician)"'Michael Atkinson'" is an Australian musician and composer. He was a member of Redgum from 1975-1987. While with Redgum he wrote many of the band's songs. After leaving Redgum he worked as a composer on Australia films and television series, including the Russell Crowe film Heaven's Burning and...
(vocals, bass guitarBass guitarThe bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....
, mandolinMandolinA mandolin is a musical instrument in the lute family . It descends from the mandore, a soprano member of the lute family. The mandolin soundboard comes in many shapes—but generally round or teardrop-shaped, sometimes with scrolls or other projections. A mandolin may have f-holes, or a single...
, pianoPianoThe piano is a musical instrument played by means of a keyboard. It is one of the most popular instruments in the world. Widely used in classical and jazz music for solo performances, ensemble use, chamber music and accompaniment, the piano is also very popular as an aid to composing and rehearsal...
) 1973–1987 - John SchumannJohn SchumannJohn Lewis Schumann is an Australian singer, songwriter and guitarist from Adelaide. He is best known as the lead singer for the folk group Redgum, with their chart-topping hit "I Was Only 19 ", a song exploring the psychological and medical side-effects of serving in the Australian forces during...
(vocals, guitarGuitarThe guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...
) 1973–1985 - Verity Truman (vocals, fluteFluteThe flute is a musical instrument of the woodwind family. Unlike woodwind instruments with reeds, a flute is an aerophone or reedless wind instrument that produces its sound from the flow of air across an opening...
, tin whistleTin whistleThe tin whistle, also called the penny whistle, English Flageolet, Scottish penny whistle, Tin Flageolet, Irish whistle and Clarke London Flageolet is a simple six-holed woodwind instrument. It is an end blown fipple flute, putting it in the same category as the recorder, American Indian flute, and...
) 1973–1990 - Chris Timms (violinViolinThe violin is a string instrument, usually with four strings tuned in perfect fifths. It is the smallest, highest-pitched member of the violin family of string instruments, which includes the viola and cello....
, backing vocals) 1973–1982 - Chris Boath (bass guitar) 1978–1979
- Gordon McLean (drumsDrum kitA drum kit is a collection of drums, cymbals and often other percussion instruments, such as cowbells, wood blocks, triangles, chimes, or tambourines, arranged for convenient playing by a single person ....
) 1978–1979 - Tom Stehlik (drums) 1978–1979
- David Flett (bass guitar) 1980–1983
- Geoff Gifford (drums) 1980–1982
- Russel Coleman (drums) 1982–1983
- Hugh McDonaldHugh McDonald (Australian musician)Hugh McDonald is an Australian musician. Active since the 1970s, he performed and recorded with The Bushwackers, The Sundowners, Moving Cloud, and The Colonials....
(guitar, violin, vocals) 1982–1990 - Michael Spicer (keyboardsKeyboard instrumentA keyboard instrument is a musical instrument which is played using a musical keyboard. The most common of these is the piano. Other widely used keyboard instruments include organs of various types as well as other mechanical, electromechanical and electronic instruments...
, fluteFluteThe flute is a musical instrument of the woodwind family. Unlike woodwind instruments with reeds, a flute is an aerophone or reedless wind instrument that produces its sound from the flow of air across an opening...
) 1983–1990 - Brian Czempinski (drums) 1984–1986
- Stephen Cooney (bass guitar , didgeridooDidgeridooThe didgeridoo is a wind instrument developed by Indigenous Australians of northern Australia around 1,500 years ago and still in widespread usage today both in Australia and around the world. It is sometimes described as a natural wooden trumpet or "drone pipe"...
, guitar, mandolinMandolinA mandolin is a musical instrument in the lute family . It descends from the mandore, a soprano member of the lute family. The mandolin soundboard comes in many shapes—but generally round or teardrop-shaped, sometimes with scrolls or other projections. A mandolin may have f-holes, or a single...
, banjoBanjoIn the 1830s Sweeney became the first white man to play the banjo on stage. His version of the instrument replaced the gourd with a drum-like sound box and included four full-length strings alongside a short fifth-string. There is no proof, however, that Sweeney invented either innovation. This new...
) 1984-1985 - Andy Baylor (guitar, fiddleFiddleThe term fiddle may refer to any bowed string musical instrument, most often the violin. It is also a colloquial term for the instrument used by players in all genres, including classical music...
) 1986 - Peter Bolke (bass guitar) 1986
- Ray Rafael (drums) 1986–1989
- Darryn Deland Darryn (bass guitar,vocals) 1987–1990
- Louis McManus (guitar) 1989
- Malcolm Wakeford (drums) 1990
- Bob Sender Bob (guitar) 1990
Studio albums
- If You Don't Fight You LoseIf You Don't Fight You LoseIf You Don't Fight You Lose is the first album by Redgum. The title is taken from a line in the song "Killing Floor".It was originally released on vinyl and cassette. It was very briefly available on CD in the late 80s, through a licensing deal with budget label Rainbow...
(1978) - Virgin GroundVirgin GroundVirgin Ground is the second album by Redgum. The title is taken from the first track.It was originally released as on vinyl and cassette...
(November 1980) - Brown Rice and KeroseneBrown Rice and KeroseneBrown Rice and Kerosene is the third album by Australian folk-rock group Redgum. The title is taken from the first track, and the album was released around the time Redgum changed from a part-time band to a full-time job for its members....
(1981) - Cut to the QuickCut to the QuickCut to the Quick is an EP by Redgum..It was originally released as a record and has never been re-released on CD. "Working Girls" was later released on Frontline, "Fabulon", "The Diamantina Drover", and "Where Ya Gonna Run To" were included on 1983's Caught in the Act...
(1982 EPExtended playAn EP is a musical recording which contains more music than a single, but is too short to qualify as a full album or LP. The term EP originally referred only to specific types of vinyl records other than 78 rpm standard play records and LP records, but it is now applied to mid-length Compact...
) - FrontlineFrontline (Redgum album)Frontline is the fifth album by the Australian folk-rock group Redgum.It was the last album that John Schumann performed on.-Track listing:#"I've Been to Bali Too"#"ASIO"#"Friday Night"#"Spirit of the Land"#"Gladstone Pier"#"Spark of the Heart"...
(August 1984) - Midnight SunMidnight Sun (Redgum album)Midnight Sun is the sixth and final album by Redgum. John Schumann had left the group previously to pursue a solo career, so Hugh McDonald took over as lead singer.-Track listing:#"Talk"#"When Your Luck Ran Out"#"Running with the Hurricane"...
(November 1986) - 4 Play Vol 19 (EP, March 1988)
Compilation albums
- Everything's Legal, Anything Goes - Redgum's Greatest (1985)
- The Very Best of Redgum (1987)
- Against the GrainAgainst the Grain (Redgum album)Against the Grain is a greatest hits album from the Australian folk-rock group Redgum..As of 2010, it is one of only two Redgum CDs available, the other being Caught in the Act.-Track listing:#"Poor Ned"#"Killing Floor"#"Servin' USA"#"Maria"#"Ted"...
(2004) - The Essential RedgumThe Essential RedgumThe Essential Redgum is a two-disc compilation album from the Australian folk-rock band Redgum.. It covers tracks from every studio album and several notable non-album singles through the band's career...
(2011)
Songs
- "Long Run" (Schumann) / "Little Hampton's Calling Me" (Atkinson, McDonald, Truman, Schumann) (January 1981) Re-released August 1983 with B side "Fabulon" (McDonald, Truman, Atkinson, Schumann)
- "100 Years On" (Schumann) / "Nuclear Cop" (Schumann, Atkinson, Truman, Timms) (November 1981)
- "Working Girls" (Schumann) (1982)
- "Caught in the Act" (Schumann, Atkinson, Truman, Timms) / "Stewie" (Schumann) / "Lear Jets Over Kulgera" (Atkinson) (1983 EP, also released with LP of same name)
- "I Was Only NineteenI Was Only Nineteen"Only Nineteen", "I Was Only Nineteen" or "A Walk in the Light Green" is the most widely recognised song by Australian folk group Redgum. The song was released in March 1983 as a single, which hit number one on the Kent Music Report Singles Chart for two weeks...
" (Schumann) / "Yarralumla Wine" (Atkinson) (March 1983) - "A.S.I.O." (Atkinson) / "Hira" (Schumann, Cooney) (1984)
- "Friday Night" (Atkinson) / "Last Frontier" (Schumann) (1984)
- "I've Been to Bali Too" (Schumann) / "Still Life" (Truman, McDonald) (February 1984)
- "Just Another Moment on Your Own" (Atkinson, Schumann) / "Kerang (Moon Over Water)" (McDonald) (1985)
- "The Drover's Dog" (Schumann, Atkinson) / "It Doesn't Matter to Me" (Schumann, Atkinson) (1985)
- "Running With the Hurricane" (Atkinson, McDonald) / "Street to Die" (McDonald) (November 1986)
- "Roll it on Robbie" (McDonald, Spicer) / "Empty Page" (Truman, Spicer) (May 1987)
External links
- Australian Rock Database's Redgum discography
- Rate Your Music's Redgum discography
- Hugh McDonald's web site
- John Schumann's official site
- bMusic.com.au newsletter no. 102 (11 January - 17 January 2004 ) - "Redgum: Where Are They Now?"
- bMusic.com.au newsletter no. 216 (2 May - 8 May 2006 ) - "Redgum: Where Are They Now? - UPDATED"