The Essential Redgum is a two-disc compilation album from the Australian folk-rock band Redgum

Redgum

Redgum were an Australian folk and political music group formed in Adelaide in 1975 by singer-songwriter John Schumann, Michael Atkinson on guitars/vocals and Verity Truman on flute/vocals; they were soon joined by Chris Timms on violin. All four had been students at Flinders University and...

.. It covers tracks from every studio album and several notable non-album singles through the band's career. It includes every track found on the earlier Greatest Hits compilation Against the Grain

Against 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"...

, as well as twenty other tracks.

Track listing

Disc 1:

1. Poor Ned
2. Servin’ USA
3. Killing Floor
4. Beaumont Rag
5. One More Boring Night In Adelaide
6. Carrington Cabaret
7. H.M.A.S. Australia
8. Maria
9. Ted
10. It Doesn’t Matter To Me
11. Virgin Ground
12. Domination Quickstep
13. Stewie
14. Nuclear Cop
15. Long Run
16. 100 Years On
17. Brown Rice & Kerosene
18. Lear Jets Over Kulgera
19. The Last Frontier

Disc 2:

1. Where Ya Gonna Run To
2. Caught In The Act
3. Yarralumla Wine
4. The Federal Two-Ring Circus
5. Working Girls
6. Fabulon
7. The Diamantina Drover
8. I Was Only 19 (A Walk In The Light Green)
9. I’ve Been To Bali Too
10. ASIO
11. Friday Night
12. Spirit Of The Land
13. Gladstone Pier
14. Still Life
15. Just Another Moment On Your Own
16. The Drover's Dog
17. Running With The Hurricane
18. When Your Luck Ran Out
19. Blood Upon The Rain

External links

• National Library of Australia Summary