The Dingoes' 2010 album,
Tracks
Chris
Copping on Hammond organ
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Australian band
The Dingoes
are often credited with being the first
Australian band to succeed in transplanting American-influenced blues
and country music into an Antipodean context, with songs and playing of
international quality.
In
August 2009 – many years after disbanding –
The Dingoes were instated into the
Australian Recording Industry Association Hall of Fame, to the great delight
of peers and fans alike. John Bois, Broderick Smith, Chris Stockley and Kerryn
Tolhurst gathered on stage for the first time in thirty years to accept the
accolade (also on behalf of their late drummer, John Lee).
Creative juices flowed afresh and the
four convened at Tolhurst’s studio in Arizona early in 2010 for exploratory sessions; the result is a brand new Dingoes CD entitled Tracks and
featuring ten new songs, released in Australia on the Liberation label. It went
straight into the relevant Australian chart at No 14.
The band travelled the tracks of
Australia, playing old and new numbers, reinforced by
Chris Copping (keyboards), Ash Davies (drums), and Kevin Bennett (vocals
and guitar). As
Chris puts it, 'Complete opposite of a PH gig (playing Wurli and organ from
a Nord Electro 2 61-key) but both bands totally organic'.
'The funny thing was it was like a
time-warp,' wrote Chris – long-resident Down Under – to BtP at the end
of the tour. 'This album was at least thirty years after the last
Dingoes' album or tour, yet the old and the new numbers gelled. The
audience was pretty senior so when I was introduced as being from Procol
Harum people said, "How do you like Australia?" as if time had stood
still for thrty years.'
'Beyond the Pale' would have alerted fans to this spectacular
return of Prof Copping to the performing stage ... had we known about it.
Instead we have pleasure in alerting everyone to the Tracks album
itself. Chris plays Hammond on six of the songs. We have to say, it
doesn't sound like Procol Harum – but it certainly
sounds like Chris Copping! |
Back: Kevin
Bennet, John Bois, Ashley Davies
Front: Chris Copping, Chris Stockley, Broderick Smith, Kerryn Tolhurst
Listen to compilation clips on mp3
here |
Right to your
Door (Tolhurst): vocal and harmonica, Broderick Smith; Drums, Ashley Davies;
bass, John Bois; electric and slide guitars, Chris Stockley; Electric and
acoustic guitars, Kerryn Tolhurst; Hammond organ,
Chris Copping
Not Worth
Fighting For (Tolhurst): vocal and harmonica, Broderick Smith; drums :
Ashley Davies; bass: John Bois; Leslie guitar: Chris Stockley; slide guitar,
Kerryn Tolhurst
Rollin' Around the
Sun (Bois): vocal and harmonica, Broderick Smith; drums, Ashley Davies;
bass, rhythm guitar and backing vocal, John Bois; electric guitar, Chris
Stockley; dobro and Farfisa organ, Kerryn Tolhurst; backing vocals, Pigram
Brothers
Try Anyway
(Tolhurst): vocal, Broderick Smith; drums, Ashley Davies; bass, John Bois;
electric guitar, Chris Stockley; Resophonic and electric guitars, Kerryn
Tolhurst; Hammond organ, Chris Copping;
backing vocals, Kevin Bennett, Ashley Davies
No Rain, No River
(Tolhurst): vocal, Broderick Smith; drums, Ashley Davies; bass, John Bois;
mandolin, Chris Stockley; electric and acoustic guitars, Kerryn Tolhurst;
Hammond organ, Chris Copping; backing vocal,
Kevin Bennett
Ribs of the Land
(Smith/Matt Walker): vocal and harmonica, Broderick Smith; drums, Ashley Davies;
bass, John Bois; electric guitar, Chris Stockley; lap steel, electric rhythm
guitar and Farfisa organ, Kerryn Tolhurst; quijado (jawbone of an ass),
Francisco Gonzales
Blue Sanctuary
(Stockley): vocal, Broderick Smith; drums, Ashley Davies; bass, John Bois;
acoustic and electric guitar, Chris Stockley; mandolin, Kerryn Tolhurst;
Hammond organ, Chris Copping; requinto, Francisco
Gonzales; backing vocals, Pigram Brothers
Snowblind Moon
(Smith/Phillip Hyde): vocal, Broderick Smith; drums, Ashley Davies; bass, John
Bois; electric guitar, Chris Stockley; Leslie guitar and piano, Kerryn Tolhurst;
Hammond organ, Chris Copping; backing vocal,
Kevin Bennett
Damascus Road
(Tolhurst): vocal, Broderick Smith; drums, Ashley Davies; bass, John Bois;
electric guitar, Chris Stockley; lap steel and acoustic guitars, Kerryn Tolhurst
Driving Home
(Smith/Kevin Bennett): vocal and harmonica, Broderick Smith; drums, Ashley
Davies; bass, John Bois; mandolin, Chris Stockley; slide and electric guitars,
Kerryn Tolhurst; Hammond organ, Chris Copping
Produced and recorded
by Kerryn Tolhurst at Locomo Studios, Tucson, Arizona, Christmas 2009.
Hammond organ recorded by Chris Copping at Magnetic Island, Great Barrier Reef,
Queensland. Drums recorded by Mick Wordley at Mixmasters, Adelaide; The
Pigrams recorded by Alan Pigram in Broome, Western Australia. Mixed by Kerryn
Tolhurst and Mick Wordley at Mixmasters, Adelaide. Executive Producer: David
Minear (Bombora)
Order the album
from Amazon UK or
from Amazon USA | Listen to compilation clips on mp3
here | Read
Chris Copping's first comment
about The Dingoes at BtP
