The Wrong Tram
With fourteen Original Barry Skipsey songs, ‘The Wrong Tram’ represents a large slice of my personal history. From my early working life, through to grand fatherhood. Most of these songs are New, however it does feature a number of my well known Older songs, now re-recorded. I’ve not been able to let these songs go, possibly because I’ve invested too much emotional energy in them. They’ve been given new life, in the hope that they’ll connect with a new and younger audience.
And I know when and where these songs were born. My working songs come from personal experience of being there, feeling the exhaustion, tasting the air and downing a well-earned beer at days end. But other songs have simply appeared, seemly dragged up from the deep corridors of the mind, to a moment when subconsciously, they’ve appeared on the page.
Recorded, mixed and Co-Produced by my good friend Ross Muir here in Alice Springs, we were ably supported by no fewer than twenty Session Players and two local Choirs. And what a joy it was to work with them all. In particular, I was thrilled to secure the talents of Yarn Wositzky, ‘Bushwackers’ and the return of Broderick Smith, ‘Dingoes’. Broderick appeared on my Album, ‘Let Your Spirit Fly’ back in 1995.
I could not be any happier with the outcome of this long awaited recording. I hope you’ll enjoy it as much as we enjoyed producing it. SKIP