Live in Australia

Description

Live in Australia is the second live album by the American singer and songwriter Randy Matthews, released in Australia on Rhema Records in 1978. The album features an acoustic solo performance by Matthews recorded live at the Kur-ing-gai College Auditorium in Sydney, Australia; with Warren Barnett engineering. Produced state side by Randy Matthews for Holy Kiss Productions, assisted by his father Monty. Edited and mixed by Tavis Turk and Randy Matthews at the Sound Shop in Nashville, Tennessee.

Released only in Australia, this disc could easily pass as a third LP in the Now Do You Understand? set as there are no tunes duplicated. Set-up is virtually the same with just Randy, acoustic guitar, microphone, audience and humorous spoken blurbs that solidly confirm Randy as supreme loon. Golly, he’s even still got that shiny silver space jacket! The Matthews collector will definitely want to seek out this his most obscure release, especially since it’s got several songs that are unavailable elsewhere («Son Of A Gun», «Australia», «What Seems Real», «Walk On Little Children» and «Lonely Don’t Be»). Also live versions of songs from the Matthews, Taylor & Johnson LP («Over There» and a hilarious audience sing-along of «Second Coming Sunset») and his upcoming 1980 self-titled release («Miracle Man», «Jesus Revive Me», «Small Circle Of Friends»). And then of course there are those delightful raps between the songs, herein given such intriguing titles as ‘Testimony Game’, ‘The Christian Box’, ‘Jesus In The Garage’, ‘Jaws’ and ‘Jam With David’. Must be narrow grooves in the vinyl cuz there’s over 62 minutes of music on a single disc. [Ken Scott, The Archivist, 4th edition]

LP tracklist:

Side One
A1. “Miracle Man” (Testimony Game, Identity Crisis)
A2. “Son Of A Gun” (The Christian Box, Prayer)
A3. “Australia”
A4. “What Seems Real”
A5. “Walk On Little Children”

Side Two
B1. “Second Coming Sunset” (Jesus in the Garage)
B2. “Small Circle Of Friends” (Jaws)
B3. “Jesus Revive Me” (Jam with David)
B4. “Over There”
B5. “Lonely Don’t Be”

Note: An intro and mic test of 1:59 minutes on the beginning of side one is not listed on the label.