Calling from a Country Phone

Calling from a Country Phone
Studio album by Robert Forster
Released 24 October 1993
Recorded Sunshine Studios, Brisbane, Australia
Genre Rock
Length 38:14
Label Beggars Banquet
Producer Robert Forster
Robert Forster chronology
Danger in the Past
(1990)		 Calling from a Country Phone
(1993)		 I Had a New York Girlfriend
(1995)
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Calling from a Country Phone is the second album by former Go-Between Robert Forster, and his first self-produced disc. Drummer Glenn Thompson would later join Forster and Grant McLennan in a reformed Go-Betweens years later. The album also features Custard frontman David McCormack on lead guitar.[1]

Details

Forster had recently returned to Australia from Germany. "I came back with an agenda, because I had an album written. I wanted to come back and find some musicians in Brisbane, and I wanted to record it probably at Sunshine. There wasn't a better studio in town."[2]

Forster was unsure where to find local musicians. He said, "So I went to the one place in Brisbane where, if you’re a little bit disoriented, you’re looking for information, you’re looking for people – there’s only one place you can go. So I walked into Rockinghorse Records, and I said to Warwick Vere – who’s run the shop since 1975 – 'I need a band. I need some young musicians around town.' He told me to go to the Queens Arms on a Sunday night, down there on James Street. I walked in and there was a band on stage called COW. "[3] COW (Country or Western) were a Bob Moore band that featured Dave McCormack from Custard and future member of the Go-Betweens and Custard, Glenn Thompson. As Forster's backing band, they toured under the name the Silver Backwash.

Track listing

All songs written by Robert Forster.

  1. "Atlanta Lie Low" – 3:13
  2. "121" – 3:28
  3. "The Circle" – 3:45
  4. "Falling Star" – 4:05
  5. "I Want to Be Quiet" – 3:34
  1. "Cat's Life" – 3:52
  2. "Girl to a World" – 4:18
  3. "Drop" – 4:08
  4. "Beyond Their Law" – 5:03
  5. "Forever & Time" – 2:48

Personnel

References

  1. ↑ "Calling from a Country Phone - Robert Forster | Songs, Reviews, Credits | AllMusic". AllMusic. Retrieved 2015-11-07.
  2. ↑ Clinton Walker (1996). Stranded: The Secret History of Australian Independent Music 1977–1991. Pan MacMillan. p. 290-91. ISBN 0-7329-0883-3.
  3. ↑ "Robert Forster: 15 Songs About Brisbane". Collapse Board.


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