Wide Open Road (single)
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| Single by The Triffids from the album Born Sandy Devotional |
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| A-side | "Wide Open Road" | ||||
| B-side | "Time of Weakness" | ||||
| Released | February, 1986 | ||||
| Format | 7" Vinyl Single, 12" Vinyl Single, CD Single | ||||
| Genre | Folk rock | ||||
| Label | White Hot Records / Mushroom Records Domino Records |
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| Writer(s) | David McComb | ||||
| Producer | Gil Norton | ||||
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| "Wide Open Road" CD Single Cover |
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Domino Records’ cover for 2006 promo CD
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Wide Open Road is a single released by The Triffids from their album Born Sandy Devotional. It was produced by Gil Norton (Pixies, Echo and the Bunnymen, Foo Fighters) and written by David McComb. The B-Side "Time of Weakness" was recorded live at the Graphic Arts Club, Sydney, November 1985 by Mitch Jones, mixed by Rob Muir (in Perth). "Dear Miss Lonely Hearts" was recorded at Planet Sound Studios, Perth and produced by the Triffids.
"Wide Open Road" reached #26 on the UK Singles Chart in 1986, and #64 on the Australian Singles Chart for the same year.[1]
In May, 2001 the Australasian Performing Right Association (APRA), as part of it's 75th Anniversary celebrations, named "Wide Open Road" as one of the thirty greatest Australian songs of all time.[2]
"Wide Open Road" was re-released as a CD single by Mushroom Records in 1998 as No.16 in a series of 25 limited edition classic Mushroom singles. It was also re-released as a download only single by Domino Records to coincide with the re-release of Born Sandy Devotional in July, 2006
Cover versions of the song were also recorded by Weddings Parties Anything on their 1998 compilation album Trophy Night, and The Church on their 2007 acoustic album El Momento Siguiente. It was also covered by fellow Perth outfit The Panics for Triple J's 'Like a Version' in 2007.
Contents |
[edit] Track listing
All tracks written by David McComb.[3]
[edit] Original release
- "Wide Open Road".
- "Time of Weakness"
- "Dear Miss Lonely Hearts" (12")
- "Native Bride" (12")
[edit] Mushroom Records re-release
- "Wide Open Road"
- "Time of Weakness"
[edit] Personnel
[edit] "Wide Open Road"
- David McComb - vocals, keyboards, guitar
- Alsy MacDonald - drums
- Robert McComb - guitar
- Martyn P. Casey - bass
- Jill Birt - keyboards
- Graham Lee - pedal steel, guitar
- Adam Peters - piano, keyboards
[edit] "Time of Weakness"
- Alsy MacDonald - hihat
- David McComb - vocals, guitar
- Graham Lee - lap steel
- Martyn Casey - bass
- Robert McComb - guitar
[edit] "Dear Miss Lonely Hearts
- Alsy MacDonald - drums
- Jill Birt - hammond organ
- David McComb - vocals, guitar
- Robert McComb -guitar, violin
- Martyn Casey - bass
[edit] "Native Bride"
- Alsy MacDonald - hihat
- David McComb - vocals, guitar
- Graham Lee - lap steel
- Martyn Casey - bass
- Robert McComb - guitar
[edit] References
- ^ Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970-1992 (doc), Australian Chart Book, St Ives, N.S.W.. ISBN 0-646-11917-6.
- ^ Australasian Performing Right Association (APRA) Top 30 Australian songs
- ^ Australasian Performing Right Association. APRA. Retrieved on 2007-12-13.
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