When the Flood Comes is the second album by Australia

Australia

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Blues

Blues is the name given to both a musical form and a music genre that originated in African-American communities of primarily the "Deep South" of the United States at the end of the 19th century from spirituals, work songs, field hollers, shouts and chants, and rhymed simple narrative ballads...

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Traditional music

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 band, The Audreys

The Audreys

The Audreys are an ARIA Award-winning Australian five-piece blues/roots band who formed in Adelaide, South Australia in 2004.-Biography:The pre-cursor to The Audreys started in Melbourne as a duo consisting of lead singer Taasha Coates and guitarist Tristan Goodall...

. The album was released 18 April 2008 on Kybosh Records and distributed by Universal Music.

The album debuted in the Top 20 on the ARIA Album Charts (the first time that the band has a release that has charted) and went on to win the 2008 ARIA award

ARIA Music Awards

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 for 'Best Blues & Roots Album'

In an interview Goddall explained that the majority of the album had been written in New York

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Track listing

All tracks written by Taasha Coates and Tristan Goodall, except where noted.

1. "Chelsea Blues" - 4:23
2. "Head So Heavy" - 3:37
3. "Paradise City" - 5:04
4. "Lay Me Down" - 4:03
5. "Closing Time" - 3:53
6. "When the Flood Comes" - 4:21
7. "Anchor" - 2:49
8. "Sally & the Preacher" - 3:43
9. "Small Things" - 4:07
10. "Here He Lies" - 4:40
11. "Songbird" - 4:40
12. "More to a Sinner" - 4:32

Personnel

• Taasha Coates - voice, melodica, harmonica, ukulele
• Tristan Goodall - national reso-phonic guitar, acoustic guitar, banjo
• Michael Green - violin, mandolin, harmonies
• Lyndon Gray - double bass, harmonies
• Toby Lang - drums, harmonies