Cold Chisel (album)

Cold Chisel
Studio album by Cold Chisel
Released	April 24, 1978, Trafalgar Studios, Sydney
Recorded	January - April 1978
Genre	Pub rock
Label	Elektra
Producer	Peter Walker
Cold Chisel chronology
Cold Chisel (1978) You're Thirteen, You're Beautiful, and You're Mine (1978)
Singles from Cold Chisel
"Khe Sanh" Released: May 1978

Cold Chisel was the self-titled debut album of Australian pub rock band Cold Chisel. Released in April 1978, it spent 23 weeks in the Australian charts, peaking at number 38.^[1]

The figure in the foreground of the cover is Mickey Braithwaite, Daryl Braithwaite's wife. ^[2]

"Cold Chisel" was produced by the inexperienced Peter Walker, who had previously played guitar with Bakery. The release of the album was hurried to coincide with a tour the band had opening for Foreigner.^[3] Although the album was well-received, Don Walker was later to say, "I find it embarrassing, the lyrics are so flowery."^[4]

Producer Peter Walker intended the album to be a showcase of the breadth of Don Walker's song-writing,^[3] and the songs range between jazz-and-blues-based ballads to hard rock.

Allmusic describe the album as a, "stunning debut album. At once polished and raw, this is a classic."^[5]

Track listing

All songs by Don Walker, except as noted

1. "Juliet" (Walker, Jim Barnes)
2. "Khe Sanh"
3. "Home And Broken Hearted"
4. "One Long Day"
5. "Northbound"
6. "Rosaline"
7. "Daskarzine"
8. "Just How Many Times"

In 1999, Atlantic released a remastered version of the album with four bonus tracks:

1. "Teenage Love Affair" from the Teenage Love album
2. "Drinkin' In Port Lincoln" also from the Teenage Love album
3. "H-Hour Hotel"
4. "On The Road"

Personnel

• Jim Barnes - vocals
• Ian Moss - lead vocals tracks 4&6, guitar
• Don Walker - organ, piano, backing vocals
• Steve Prestwich - drums
• Phil Small - bass
• Dave Blight - harmonica, track 2
• Peter Walker - acoustic guitar, track 2
• Wilbur Wilde - saxophone, tracks 3, 6 and 8
• Joe Camilleri - saxophone
• Janice Slater - backing vocals
• Carol Stubbley - backing vocals

References

1. ^ David Kent (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970-1992. St Ives, New South Wales: Australian Chart Book. p. 72. ISBN 0646119176. 
2. ^ Michael Lawrence (1998). Showtime: The Cold Chisel Story. Belmont, Victoria: Michael Lawrence. pp. 52. ISBN 1865031186. 
3. ^ ^{a b} Anthony O'Grady (2001). Cold Chisel: The Pure Stuff. Crows Nest, New South Wales: Allen & Unwin. p. 45. ISBN 1865081965. 
4. ^ Ed St John. "At The Top With Cold Chisel". Rolling Stone Australia (Sydney, NSW: Silvertongues Pty Ltd) (19 March 1981): pgs 16–18. 
5. ^ Adrian Zupp. "Cold Chisel". Allmusic. http://www.allmusic.com/album/cold-chisel-r33639/review. Retrieved 12 March 2011.