Wayfaring Sons
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Wayfaring Sons is an album
Album
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 by Scottish
Scotland
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-Australia
Australia
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n singer Colin Hay
Colin Hay
Colin James Hay is a Scottish-Australian musician, who made his mark during the 1980s as lead vocalist of the Australian band Men at Work, and later as a solo artist.- Early life and Men at Work :...

, released in 1990. (See 1990 in music
1990 in music
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).

Track listing

  • All songs written by Colin Hay
    Colin Hay
    Colin James Hay is a Scottish-Australian musician, who made his mark during the 1980s as lead vocalist of the Australian band Men at Work, and later as a solo artist.- Early life and Men at Work :...

    , unless otherwise stated
  1. "Wayfaring Sons" – 3:31
  2. "Into My Life" – 4:20
  3. "Storm in My Heart" – 3:33
  4. "Dream On (In the Night)" – 4:56
  5. "Not So Lonely" (Hay, Robert Dillon, Paul Gadsby, Gerry Hale) – 4:16
  6. "Don't Drink the Water" – 3:43
  7. "Help Me" – 3:04
  8. "Dreamtime in Glasgow" – 3:51
  9. "Back in My Loving Arms" (Hay, Dillon, Gadsby, Hale) – 3:31
  10. "Ya (Rest in Peace)" – 3:53

Personnel

  • Colin Hay - vocals
    Singing
    Singing is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice, and augments regular speech by the use of both tonality and rhythm. One who sings is called a singer or vocalist. Singers perform music known as songs that can be sung either with or without accompaniment by musical instruments...

    , acoustic
    Acoustic guitar
    An acoustic guitar is a guitar that uses only an acoustic sound board. The air in this cavity resonates with the vibrational modes of the string and at low frequencies, which depend on the size of the box, the chamber acts like a Helmholtz resonator, increasing or decreasing the volume of the sound...

     12-string guitar, acoustic 6-string 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...

    , electric guitar
    Electric guitar
    An electric guitar is a guitar that uses the principle of direct electromagnetic induction to convert vibrations of its metal strings into electric audio signals. The signal generated by an electric guitar is too weak to drive a loudspeaker, so it is amplified before sending it to a loudspeaker...

    , E-Bow
    E-Bow
    The EBow or ebow is a hand-held, battery-powered electronic device for playing the electric guitar, invented by Greg Heet in 1969...

  • Gerry Hale - violin
    Violin
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    , mandolin
    Mandolin
    A 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...

    , background vocals
  • Paul Gadsby - bass guitar
    Bass guitar
    The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....

    , background vocals
  • Robert Dillon - drums
    Drum kit
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    , percussion
    Percussion instrument
    A percussion instrument is any object which produces a sound when hit with an implement or when it is shaken, rubbed, scraped, or otherwise acted upon in a way that sets the object into vibration...


Guest musicians

  • Robby Kilgore - keyboards
    Keyboard instrument
    A 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...

  • Jann Karam - background vocals on "Not So Lonely"
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