Greg Quill
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Greg Quill is an Australian-born musician, singer, songwriter and journalist who has been resident in Toronto, Canada since the late 1970s, where he is an entertainment columnist and long-serving staff member of the Toronto Star
newspaper.
He worked briefly as a history teacher at a Catholic Boys High School in Bankstown, in Sydney's western suburbs, before being hired by David Elfick
, then N.S.W. editor of the national weekly pop music magazine Go-Set
and later a prominent Australian movie producer, as a feature writer and regional editor for the Melbourne-based publication.
During this time Quill ran The Shack http://www.shackfolk.com, a popular late-60s folk venue at Narrabeen on Sydney's northern beaches.
Music publisher and record producer Gus McNeil http://nla.gov.au/nla.cs-pa-HTTP%253A%252F%252FNAA12.NAA.GOV.AU%252FSCRIPTS%252FSEARCHOLD.ASP%253FO%253DPSI2%2526NUMBER%253D11443547 (a former rock singer who fronted the 1960s Sydney band Gus & The Nomads), signed Quill to a publishing deal with own company, Cellar Music. McNeil produced Quill's first commercial recording, the single "Fleetwood Plain", and the subsequent album of the same name, for EMI
Australia in 1970. For the album Quill was backed by John Walsh (bass), Chris Blanchflower (harmonica), Orlando Agostino (guitars) and members of Sydney rock band Pirana, Stan White (keyboards), Jim Duke-Yonge (drums), Tony Hamilton (guitar) and Graeme Thompson (bass). The LP was released on EMI's new progressive subsidiary Harvest Records
, although the "Fleetwood Plain" / "Song For David" single was issued on EMI's Australian pop label Columbia Records
.
"Fleetwood Plain" was subsequently covered by Australian country music star Reg Lindsay
http://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/2610220, and by Canadian folk-rockers Creamcheeze Good Time Band http://jam.canoe.ca/Music/Pop_Encyclopedia/C/Cream_Cheeze_Goodtime_Band.html on their 1973 album, Home Cookin.
To promote the record, Quill put together the original lineup of his band Country Radio in June 1970. The members were John Walsh, Chris Blanchflower and Orlando Agostino. The group started as an acoustic act but during 1970-71 its musical style evolved into electric country-rock, a style then gaining wide popularity (especially amongst musicians) through the influence of albums like The Band
's Music From Big Pink
, Bob Dylan
's Nashville Skyline
and The Byrds
' Sweetheart of the Rodeo
.
By May 1971 the Country Radio lineup had changed to Quill, Blanchflower, John A. Bird (keyboards), Mal Algar (bass) and Ace Follington (drums, ex-Chain
). In October 1971 Country Radio signed to Infinity Records
, the newly-formed subsidiary label of Festival Records
and recorded its debut single, "Listen To The Children", which came out in Nov. 1971, although it did not chart. Soon after, Follington left to join the pop band The Cleves for a tour of Britain, and was replaced by Kim Bryant, who was in turn replaced a few months later by Tony Bolton (ex-The Affair, Freshwater).
In January 1972 Algar left and John Bois (ex-Circle of Love, New Dream) and Kerryn Tolhurst
(ex-Adderly Smith Blues Band, Sundown) joined the group on bass and guitar/lap steel/mandolin, respectively. The addition of Tolhurst was of crucial importance to the band's sound and style. He and Quill also began a successful songwriting partnership.
With the formation of the "classic" lineup -- Quill, Tolhurst, Bird, Bois, Bolton and Blanchflower -- Country Radio recorded their second and most successful single, "Gyspy Queen", with producer John French, in Melbourne in April 1972. It was co-written by Quill and Tolhurst and featured a string arrangement by session musician Peter Jones (who later worked on Quill's solo album, The Outlaw's Reply). Released in August, the single spent 13 weeks in the national charts and peaked at #12. "Gypsy Queen" shared the APRA (Australasian Performing Right Association
) Song Of The Year award with Mississippi's "Kings Of The World". It was featured on the soundtrack of director Rod Hardy
's 2007 film December Boys
, starring Daniel Radcliffe
, and in the popular 2009 ABC-TV series East of Everything
.
The success of the single and the intervention of expat Canadian music promoter/label rep Michael McMartin, who would later manage Australian rock band Hoodoo Gurus
, led to a contract with Toronto-based MUCH Productions, which released "Gypsy Queen" in Canada in 1972. The band's follow-up single, "Wintersong", made the Australian Top 40 in December 1972, the same month that Infinity released their debut LP Country Radio Live.
Denied a budget for extended studio sessions, Country Radio recorded the album live in one evening in front of an invited audience at Melbourne's TCS Studios on 4 October 1972. It featured a selection of originals, plus two songs by John Stewart (ex The Kingston Trio
), one of Quill's favourite songwriters.
Country Radio toured relentlessly in 1972-73, and made several live TV recordings for the ABC in-studio concert series, GTK
. The band appeared on concert and festival stages with many stars of the era, including Creedence Clearwater Revival
, Elton John
, Santana
and Stephen Stills
. They made successful appearances at several large festivals, including the Rock Isle Mulwala Festival in 1972 and the Sunbury Pop Festival in 1972 and 1973, and the live track of Quill's "Silver Spurs" was included in Mushroom Records' three-LP recording of the latter event, released in April 1973. Kerryn Tolhurst abruptly left the band just after the second Sunbury festival, briefly joining Mississippi
, and announcing his intention to put together a new group (The Dingoes
) in Melbourne, with singer Broderick Smith
. Soon after, both Bird and Blanchflower also left Country Radio.
With a complete redesign in mind, Quill, Bolton and Bois invited Adelaide guitarist/songwriter Russ Johnson into the band. Johnson effectively swapped places with Tolhurst, having himself just left Mississippi. In May 1973 the lineup of Quill, Johnson, Bolton and Bois recorded their fourth single, a country-rock restatement of the traditional maritime work song, "Bound For South Australia" (b/w "I Need Women"), and the first folk ballad arranged in a rock format in Australia. A recording that helped lead subsequent rock/pop bands to Australia's folk treasury, "Bound For South Australia" did not chart. The four-piece ensemble with Johnson opened for British folk-rock band Fairport Convention
with Sandy Denny
on three dates of their 1973 tour. Soon after, Johnson left Country Radio for medical reasons and returned to Adelaide.
Guitarists Les Stacpool, a veteran of many of Melbourne's top bands of the 60s, and Russ Hinton (ex-Moonstone) alternated on lead guitar after Johnson's departure, and Hinton also performed on Quill's subsequent solo LP. Bois left in August 1972, rejoining Tolhurst in the newly formed Dingoes. Quill dissolved Country Radio in December 1973, and worked for a year as general features writer and news reporter for the Sydney Sunday Telegraph, then as editor of the Sydney suburban weekly newspaper The Peninsula News.
In 1974 Quill, performing solo, opened for Fairport Convention in several Australian cities.
In the same year, with the backing of Sydney-based executive producer and Trafalgar Studios owner Charles Fisher
( Savage Garden
, Air Supply
), Quill finally recorded the studio album he was unable to make with Country Radio. The Outlaw's Reply was produced by John L Sayers
and featured most of the 'classic' Country Radio lineup, including Tolhurst, Bois, Bolton and Blanchflower, plus Russ Hinton (guitars), Peter Jones (keyboards), Peter Walker (guitars), Chris Neal (synthesizers) and Barry Leef (backing vocals). Two singles were issued during 1975: "She Do It To Me" / "Terry's Time" (April '75) and "Blackmail" / "The Outlaw's Reply" (Sept. 1975). The album included the Quill song "Almost Freedom", which had previously been covered by former Company Caine
singer Gulliver Smith on his 1973 solo LP The Band's Alright But The Singer Is ....
During 1974 Festival also released a de facto Best Of compilation entitled Gypsy Queen, credited to Greg Quill & Country Radio. A selection of album tracks and single A- and B-sides, the album included Quill's cover of the country classic "Singin' The Blues", which featured Renee Geyer
on backing vocals and Les Stacpool on guitar.
In May 1975, Quill showcased The Outlaw's Reply at the Sydney Opera House
, backed by all the musicians who contributed to the album. The Dingoes and Richard Clapton
were also part of the first all-Australian country-rock show to take place on the Opera House's main stage. It was to be Quill's final performance in Australia for almost four years.
Along with Margret RoadKnight
and guitarist Rob MacKenzie (MacKenzie Theory), Quill was one of the first Australian rock musicians to be awarded a grant by the Australian Council for the Arts, enabling him to travel overseas. He moved part-time to Toronto in mid-1975, where he put together a new band, Hot Knives, with Bolton, Toronto bassist Dennis Pinhorn and violinist Anne Lindsay, and expat Australian guitarist/keyboardist/songwriter Sam See (Sherbet
, The Flying Circus
, Fraternity
, Lighthouse
). When Australian guitarist/songwriter Chris Stockley (Cam-Pact, Axiom
, The Dingoes
) replaced Lindsay in 1977 and Australian bassist Bruce Worrall (also ex-Sherbet) replaced Pinhorn, the band of Toronto-based expats took up the name Southern Cross.
Southern Cross released only one single, "Been So Long" / "I Wonder Why", issued on Warner's
Elektra Records
label in October 1978. The group split at the end of that year, during a tour of Australia. Quill returned to Canada alone. A re-arranged and remixed version of "Been So Long", with parts added in Toronto by bassist Steve Hogg, singer Ian Thomas and keyboardist Hugh Syme
, was released in Canada as Quill's first solo single there, but it was the B-side, the raucous, guitar-heavy "I Wonder Why", that got most of the attention on Canadian radio, particularly Toronto's then hard-rock FM station Q107 (CILQ). A subsequent album, "Correspondence", produced in Toronto by Alan Thorne, and featuring mostly new Quill compositions and guest performances by Canadian guitar legends Amos Garrett
and Mike McKenna (Mendelson McKenna Mainline), as well as Thomas, Hogg and Syme, was never released.
The demise of Southern Cross effectively put the end to the professional performing careers of both Quill and Bolton. Bolton gave up the drums after Southern Cross and later went into private business. Quill stopped playing professionally for almost two decades and stayed on in Canada, where he married concert promoter-turned-corporate public relations executive, Ellen Davidson, helped raise a family, and became a prominent journalist and music writer.
Quill has written for and edited numerous music magazines (Music Express
, Graffiti
, Applaud, Canadian Composer, Songwriter) and published books about Bon Jovi
(1987), Michael Jackson
(1988) and The Rolling Stones
(1989), among others. Since 1983 he has been a journalist and occasional TV and radio commentator on the arts scene in Toronto, where he is an arts columnist for the Toronto Star
, Canada's largest newspaper.
An impromptu reunion in Melbourne with Kerryn Tolhurst and Chris Stockley in 1999 led to Quill's decision to return to music.
Over the next two years, Quill in Toronto and Tolhurst in New York maintained contact and began working together again. The result was a new batch of songs which eventually appeared in early 2003 on the Quill-Tolhurst album So Rudely Interrupted, released in Canada by True North Records
. The duo promoted the Canadian release with a concert in October 2003 at C’est What? in Toronto, performing with a full band featuring keyboardist Garth Hudson
(ex The Band
) on accordion and piano. Excerpts from the show were aired nationally several times on Bravo! Canada
’s Arts & Minds program and on CP24. The duo then made a short tour of Australia, marking their first public performances together since 1973, appearing at several festivals, including the Port Fairy Folk Festival
and the Brunswick Music Festival in Melbourne. Their concerts in Sydney reunited Quill with many old friends from his folk days at The Shack, and at the final event of the tour, at the Bridge Hotel, Sydney, Quill and Tolhurst were joined onstage by Country Radio harmonica player Chris Blanchflower.
Since 2003 Quill has become a regular performer in Canada's roots music scene, as both a solo act and with members of a loose collective that includes Cam MacInnes (guitar), Denis Keldie (accordion), Anne Lindsay (violin), Dennis Pinhorn (bass) and Bucky Berger (drums).
From June 2006 though March 2008 Quill compiled and hosted the hour-long weekly Canadian roots music specialty program River of Song on Sirius Canada
satellite radio.
He returned to Australia again in July 2009, playing two shows in his home town, one at the revived Shack in Narrabeen, and at the Excelsior Hotel in Sydney, where he was joined for several songs by former bandmates Orlando Agostino and Chris Blanchflower. In January and February 2011 Quill toured Australia's east coast, playing 15 dates with Toronto singer-songwriter Jon Brooks. He is currently recording an album of new material for release in 2011.
(Quill/Kelly Songs) b/w I "Wonder Why" (Quill/Kelly Songs) Elektra (Canada) 1979
Toronto Star
The Toronto Star is Canada's highest-circulation newspaper, based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Its print edition is distributed almost entirely within the province of Ontario...
newspaper.
Biography
Quill began his musical career in the 1960s as a solo performer on the Sydney folk scene clustered around the University of Sydney, where he graduated in 1970 with a B.A. in English Language and Literature.He worked briefly as a history teacher at a Catholic Boys High School in Bankstown, in Sydney's western suburbs, before being hired by David Elfick
David Elfick
David Elfick is a noted Australian film and television writer, director, producer and occasional actor. He is known for his association with writer-director Phillip Noyce with whom he has collaborated on films including Newsfront and Rabbit-Proof Fence .Elfick began his film career as the...
, then N.S.W. editor of the national weekly pop music magazine Go-Set
Go-Set
Go-Set was the first Australian pop music newspaper, published weekly from 2 February 1966 to 24 August 1974, and was founded in Melbourne by Phillip Frazer, Peter Raphael and Tony Schauble...
and later a prominent Australian movie producer, as a feature writer and regional editor for the Melbourne-based publication.
During this time Quill ran The Shack http://www.shackfolk.com, a popular late-60s folk venue at Narrabeen on Sydney's northern beaches.
Music publisher and record producer Gus McNeil http://nla.gov.au/nla.cs-pa-HTTP%253A%252F%252FNAA12.NAA.GOV.AU%252FSCRIPTS%252FSEARCHOLD.ASP%253FO%253DPSI2%2526NUMBER%253D11443547 (a former rock singer who fronted the 1960s Sydney band Gus & The Nomads), signed Quill to a publishing deal with own company, Cellar Music. McNeil produced Quill's first commercial recording, the single "Fleetwood Plain", and the subsequent album of the same name, for EMI
EMI
The EMI Group, also known as EMI Music or simply EMI, is a multinational music company headquartered in London, United Kingdom. It is the fourth-largest business group and family of record labels in the recording industry and one of the "big four" record companies. EMI Group also has a major...
Australia in 1970. For the album Quill was backed by John Walsh (bass), Chris Blanchflower (harmonica), Orlando Agostino (guitars) and members of Sydney rock band Pirana, Stan White (keyboards), Jim Duke-Yonge (drums), Tony Hamilton (guitar) and Graeme Thompson (bass). The LP was released on EMI's new progressive subsidiary Harvest Records
Harvest Records
-References:* Harvest Records collectors guide ISBN 978-5-9622-0021-7...
, although the "Fleetwood Plain" / "Song For David" single was issued on EMI's Australian pop label Columbia Records
Columbia Records
Columbia Records is an American record label, owned by Japan's Sony Music Entertainment, operating under the Columbia Music Group with Aware Records. It was founded in 1888, evolving from an earlier enterprise, the American Graphophone Company — successor to the Volta Graphophone Company...
.
"Fleetwood Plain" was subsequently covered by Australian country music star Reg Lindsay
Reg Lindsay
Reginald John Lindsay OAM was an Australian country music singer who won three Golden Guitar Awards and wrote more than five hundred songs in his fifty-year music career....
http://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/2610220, and by Canadian folk-rockers Creamcheeze Good Time Band http://jam.canoe.ca/Music/Pop_Encyclopedia/C/Cream_Cheeze_Goodtime_Band.html on their 1973 album, Home Cookin.
To promote the record, Quill put together the original lineup of his band Country Radio in June 1970. The members were John Walsh, Chris Blanchflower and Orlando Agostino. The group started as an acoustic act but during 1970-71 its musical style evolved into electric country-rock, a style then gaining wide popularity (especially amongst musicians) through the influence of albums like The Band
The Band
The Band was an acclaimed and influential roots rock group. The original group consisted of Rick Danko , Garth Hudson , Richard Manuel , and Robbie Robertson , and Levon Helm...
's Music From Big Pink
Music from Big Pink
Music from Big Pink is the 1968 debut album by rock band The Band. It features the well-known song, "The Weight". The music was composed partly in 'Big Pink', a house shared by Rick Danko, Richard Manuel, and Garth Hudson in West Saugerties, in upstate New York...
, Bob Dylan
Bob Dylan
Bob Dylan is an American singer-songwriter, musician, poet, film director and painter. He has been a major and profoundly influential figure in popular music and culture for five decades. Much of his most celebrated work dates from the 1960s when he was an informal chronicler and a seemingly...
's Nashville Skyline
Nashville Skyline
Nashville Skyline is singer-songwriter Bob Dylan's ninth studio album, released by Columbia Records in April 1969.The album marked a dramatic departure for Dylan, previously known for his groundbreaking, poetic folk music and rock and roll...
and The Byrds
The Byrds
The Byrds were an American rock band, formed in Los Angeles, California in 1964. The band underwent multiple line-up changes throughout its existence, with frontman Roger McGuinn remaining the sole consistent member until the group disbanded in 1973...
' Sweetheart of the Rodeo
Sweetheart of the Rodeo
Sweetheart of the Rodeo is the sixth album by American rock band The Byrds and was released on August 30, 1968 on Columbia Records...
.
By May 1971 the Country Radio lineup had changed to Quill, Blanchflower, John A. Bird (keyboards), Mal Algar (bass) and Ace Follington (drums, ex-Chain
Chain (band)
Chain are an Australian blues band formed in Melbourne as The Chain in late 1968 with a lineup including guitarist, vocalist Phil Manning; they are sometimes known as Matt Taylor's Chain after lead singer-songwriter and harmonica player, Matt Taylor...
). In October 1971 Country Radio signed to Infinity Records
Infinity Records
Infinity Records was a short-lived subsidiary of MCA Records established in New York City in 1977. The label was conceived by MCA president Sidney Sheinberg as a way for the Los Angeles-based entertainment conglomerate to improve its presence on the East Coast...
, the newly-formed subsidiary label of Festival Records
Festival Records (Australia)
Festival Records was an Australian music recording and publishing company which was founded in Sydney in 1952 and operated until 2005....
and recorded its debut single, "Listen To The Children", which came out in Nov. 1971, although it did not chart. Soon after, Follington left to join the pop band The Cleves for a tour of Britain, and was replaced by Kim Bryant, who was in turn replaced a few months later by Tony Bolton (ex-The Affair, Freshwater).
In January 1972 Algar left and John Bois (ex-Circle of Love, New Dream) and Kerryn Tolhurst
Kerryn Tolhurst
Kerryn Tolhurst is a noted Australian musician and songwriter who was based in the USA in the late 1970s and 1980s.His musical career began in Melbourne with the Adderly Smith Blues Band. He subsequently joined Sundown, led by Keith Glass, which was one of Australia's first country-rock groups...
(ex-Adderly Smith Blues Band, Sundown) joined the group on bass and guitar/lap steel/mandolin, respectively. The addition of Tolhurst was of crucial importance to the band's sound and style. He and Quill also began a successful songwriting partnership.
With the formation of the "classic" lineup -- Quill, Tolhurst, Bird, Bois, Bolton and Blanchflower -- Country Radio recorded their second and most successful single, "Gyspy Queen", with producer John French, in Melbourne in April 1972. It was co-written by Quill and Tolhurst and featured a string arrangement by session musician Peter Jones (who later worked on Quill's solo album, The Outlaw's Reply). Released in August, the single spent 13 weeks in the national charts and peaked at #12. "Gypsy Queen" shared the APRA (Australasian Performing Right Association
Australasian Performing Right Association
The Australasian Performing Right Association is a copyright collective representing New Zealand and Australian composers, lyricists and music publishers. The association's head offices located in Sydney Australia, and it has branch offices in Auckland, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide and Perth...
) Song Of The Year award with Mississippi's "Kings Of The World". It was featured on the soundtrack of director Rod Hardy
Rod Hardy
Rod Hardy is an Australian television and film director.His interest in film began before the age of 12, when he shot several short films on his brother’s 8 mm film camera...
's 2007 film December Boys
December Boys
December Boys is a 2007 Australian film directed by Rod Hardy and written by Marc Rosenberg and adapted from the 1963 novel of the same name by Michael Noonan. It was released on 14 September 2007 in the UK and US and 20 September 2007 in Australia...
, starring Daniel Radcliffe
Daniel Radcliffe
Daniel Jacob Radcliffe is an English actor who rose to prominence playing the titular character in the Harry Potter film series....
, and in the popular 2009 ABC-TV series East of Everything
East of Everything
East of Everything is an Australian drama television series which began screening on 30 March 2008 on the ABC. It is produced by Deborah Cox , Fiona Eagger and Roger Monk...
.
The success of the single and the intervention of expat Canadian music promoter/label rep Michael McMartin, who would later manage Australian rock band Hoodoo Gurus
Hoodoo Gurus
Hoodoo Gurus are an Australian rock band, formed in Sydney in 1981, by the mainstay Dave Faulkner and later joined by Richard Grossman , Mark Kingsmill , and Brad Shepherd...
, led to a contract with Toronto-based MUCH Productions, which released "Gypsy Queen" in Canada in 1972. The band's follow-up single, "Wintersong", made the Australian Top 40 in December 1972, the same month that Infinity released their debut LP Country Radio Live.
Denied a budget for extended studio sessions, Country Radio recorded the album live in one evening in front of an invited audience at Melbourne's TCS Studios on 4 October 1972. It featured a selection of originals, plus two songs by John Stewart (ex The Kingston Trio
The Kingston Trio
The Kingston Trio is an American folk and pop music group that helped launch the folk revival of the late 1950s to late 1960s. The group started as a San Francisco Bay Area nightclub act with an original lineup of Dave Guard, Bob Shane, and Nick Reynolds...
), one of Quill's favourite songwriters.
Country Radio toured relentlessly in 1972-73, and made several live TV recordings for the ABC in-studio concert series, GTK
GTK (TV show)
GTK was an Australian popular music TV series produced and broadcast by ABC Television.-History:The series title was an abbreviation of the phrase "Get To Know"...
. The band appeared on concert and festival stages with many stars of the era, including Creedence Clearwater Revival
Creedence Clearwater Revival
Creedence Clearwater Revival was an American rock band that gained popularity in the late 1960s and early 1970s with a number of successful singles drawn from various albums....
, Elton John
Elton John
Sir Elton Hercules John, CBE, Hon DMus is an English rock singer-songwriter, composer, pianist and occasional actor...
, Santana
Santana (band)
Santana is a rock band based around guitarist Carlos Santana and founded in the late 1960s. It first came to public attention after their performing the song "Soul Sacrifice" at the Woodstock Festival in 1969, when their Latin rock provided a contrast to other acts on the bill...
and Stephen Stills
Stephen Stills
Stephen Arthur Stills is an American guitarist and singer/songwriter best known for his work with Buffalo Springfield and Crosby, Stills & Nash . He has performed on a professional level in several other bands as well as maintaining a solo career at the same time...
. They made successful appearances at several large festivals, including the Rock Isle Mulwala Festival in 1972 and the Sunbury Pop Festival in 1972 and 1973, and the live track of Quill's "Silver Spurs" was included in Mushroom Records' three-LP recording of the latter event, released in April 1973. Kerryn Tolhurst abruptly left the band just after the second Sunbury festival, briefly joining Mississippi
Mississippi (band)
Mississippi was an Australian band , which featured some big names in Australian rock music, Graeham Goble, Beeb Birtles and Kerryn Tolhurst...
, and announcing his intention to put together a new group (The Dingoes
The Dingoes
The Dingoes are an Australian country rock band initially active from 1973 to 1979, formed in Melbourne they relocated to the United States from 1976. Most stable line-up was John Bois on bass guitar, John Lee on drums, Broderick Smith on vocals and harmonica, Chris Stockley on guitar and Kerryn...
) in Melbourne, with singer Broderick Smith
Broderick Smith
Broderick Smith aka Brod Smith is an Australian singer-songwriter, harmonica, guitar and banjo player. He was a member of 1970s bands Carson and The Dingoes, 1980s Broderick Smith's Big Combo and performed solo...
. Soon after, both Bird and Blanchflower also left Country Radio.
With a complete redesign in mind, Quill, Bolton and Bois invited Adelaide guitarist/songwriter Russ Johnson into the band. Johnson effectively swapped places with Tolhurst, having himself just left Mississippi. In May 1973 the lineup of Quill, Johnson, Bolton and Bois recorded their fourth single, a country-rock restatement of the traditional maritime work song, "Bound For South Australia" (b/w "I Need Women"), and the first folk ballad arranged in a rock format in Australia. A recording that helped lead subsequent rock/pop bands to Australia's folk treasury, "Bound For South Australia" did not chart. The four-piece ensemble with Johnson opened for British folk-rock band Fairport Convention
Fairport Convention
Fairport Convention are an English folk rock and later electric folk band, formed in 1967 who are still recording and touring today. They are widely regarded as the most important single group in the English folk rock movement...
with Sandy Denny
Sandy Denny
Sandy Denny , born Alexandra Elene Maclean Denny, was an English singer and songwriter, perhaps best known as the lead singer for the folk rock band Fairport Convention...
on three dates of their 1973 tour. Soon after, Johnson left Country Radio for medical reasons and returned to Adelaide.
Guitarists Les Stacpool, a veteran of many of Melbourne's top bands of the 60s, and Russ Hinton (ex-Moonstone) alternated on lead guitar after Johnson's departure, and Hinton also performed on Quill's subsequent solo LP. Bois left in August 1972, rejoining Tolhurst in the newly formed Dingoes. Quill dissolved Country Radio in December 1973, and worked for a year as general features writer and news reporter for the Sydney Sunday Telegraph, then as editor of the Sydney suburban weekly newspaper The Peninsula News.
In 1974 Quill, performing solo, opened for Fairport Convention in several Australian cities.
In the same year, with the backing of Sydney-based executive producer and Trafalgar Studios owner Charles Fisher
Charles Fisher
Charles Fisher was a politician and jurist of New Brunswick, Canada. Fisher was a leading Reformer of his day who headed the first responsible government in New Brunswick from 1854 to 1861....
( Savage Garden
Savage Garden
Savage Garden were an Australian pop rock performance and songwriting duo. Darren Hayes and Daniel Jones formed the group in Brisbane, Queensland in 1994...
, Air Supply
Air Supply
Air Supply is an Australian soft rock duo, consisting of Graham Russell as guitarist and singer-songwriter and Russell Hitchcock as lead vocalist. They had a succession of hits worldwide, including eight Top Ten hits in the United States, in the early 1980s...
), Quill finally recorded the studio album he was unable to make with Country Radio. The Outlaw's Reply was produced by John L Sayers
John L Sayers
John L Sayers is an Australian recording engineer, producer and studio designer who engineered and/or produced many classic Australian rock and pop albums and singles from 1969 to the present...
and featured most of the 'classic' Country Radio lineup, including Tolhurst, Bois, Bolton and Blanchflower, plus Russ Hinton (guitars), Peter Jones (keyboards), Peter Walker (guitars), Chris Neal (synthesizers) and Barry Leef (backing vocals). Two singles were issued during 1975: "She Do It To Me" / "Terry's Time" (April '75) and "Blackmail" / "The Outlaw's Reply" (Sept. 1975). The album included the Quill song "Almost Freedom", which had previously been covered by former Company Caine
Company Caine
Company Caine, also known as Co. Caine and Company Kane, is an Australian progressive rock band of the 1970s. The band was formed in Melbourne in 1970 with member as follows:* Gulliver Smith * Russell Smith * Jeremy Noone 1970-71, 1975...
singer Gulliver Smith on his 1973 solo LP The Band's Alright But The Singer Is ....
During 1974 Festival also released a de facto Best Of compilation entitled Gypsy Queen, credited to Greg Quill & Country Radio. A selection of album tracks and single A- and B-sides, the album included Quill's cover of the country classic "Singin' The Blues", which featured Renee Geyer
Renée Geyer
Renée Rebecca Geyer is an Australian singer who has long been regarded as one of the finest exponents of jazz, soul and R&B idioms. She had commercial success as a solo artist in Australia, with "It's a Man's Man's World", "Heading in the Right Direction" and "Stares and Whispers" in the 1970s and...
on backing vocals and Les Stacpool on guitar.
In May 1975, Quill showcased The Outlaw's Reply at the Sydney Opera House
Sydney Opera House
The Sydney Opera House is a multi-venue performing arts centre in the Australian city of Sydney. It was conceived and largely built by Danish architect Jørn Utzon, finally opening in 1973 after a long gestation starting with his competition-winning design in 1957...
, backed by all the musicians who contributed to the album. The Dingoes and Richard Clapton
Richard Clapton
Richard Clapton is an Australian singer-songwriter and guitarist from Sydney, New South Wales. His solo top 20 hits on the Kent Music Report Singles Chart are "Girls on the Avenue" and "I Am an Island"...
were also part of the first all-Australian country-rock show to take place on the Opera House's main stage. It was to be Quill's final performance in Australia for almost four years.
Along with Margret RoadKnight
Margret RoadKnight
Margret RoadKnight is an Australian singer. In a career spanning more than four decades, she has sung in a wide variety of styles including blues, jazz, gospel, and folk....
and guitarist Rob MacKenzie (MacKenzie Theory), Quill was one of the first Australian rock musicians to be awarded a grant by the Australian Council for the Arts, enabling him to travel overseas. He moved part-time to Toronto in mid-1975, where he put together a new band, Hot Knives, with Bolton, Toronto bassist Dennis Pinhorn and violinist Anne Lindsay, and expat Australian guitarist/keyboardist/songwriter Sam See (Sherbet
Sherbet (band)
Sherbet was one of the most prominent and successful Australian rock bands of the 1970s. Their biggest singles were "Summer Love" and "Howzat" , both reaching number one in Australia. "Howzat" was also a top 5 hit in the UK. Though the band's success in the U.S...
, The Flying Circus
The Flying Circus (band)
The Flying Circus was a pioneering Australian country rock band who had a number of pop hits in Australia from 1968 to 1971 and then re-located to Canada from 1971 to 1974 where they also achieved a degree of success.-Beginnings:...
, Fraternity
Fraternity (band)
Fraternity were an Australian rock band which formed in Sydney in 1970 and relocated to Adelaide in 1971. Former members include successive lead vocalists Bon Scott , John Swan , and his brother Jimmy Barnes...
, Lighthouse
Lighthouse (band)
Lighthouse is a Canadian rock band formed in 1968 in Toronto which included horns, string instruments, and vibraphone; their music reflected elements of rock music, jazz, classical music and swing...
). When Australian guitarist/songwriter Chris Stockley (Cam-Pact, Axiom
Axiom (Australian band)
Axiom were a rock band formed in Melbourne, Australia in 1969 and included musicians Glenn Shorrock and Brian Cadd.-Biography:Axiom's formation was a by-product of the annual Hoadley's Battle of the Sounds in which the top Australian bands of the day performed in front of judges for the prize of a...
, The Dingoes
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) replaced Lindsay in 1977 and Australian bassist Bruce Worrall (also ex-Sherbet) replaced Pinhorn, the band of Toronto-based expats took up the name Southern Cross.
Southern Cross released only one single, "Been So Long" / "I Wonder Why", issued on Warner's
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label in October 1978. The group split at the end of that year, during a tour of Australia. Quill returned to Canada alone. A re-arranged and remixed version of "Been So Long", with parts added in Toronto by bassist Steve Hogg, singer Ian Thomas and keyboardist Hugh Syme
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, was released in Canada as Quill's first solo single there, but it was the B-side, the raucous, guitar-heavy "I Wonder Why", that got most of the attention on Canadian radio, particularly Toronto's then hard-rock FM station Q107 (CILQ). A subsequent album, "Correspondence", produced in Toronto by Alan Thorne, and featuring mostly new Quill compositions and guest performances by Canadian guitar legends Amos Garrett
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and Mike McKenna (Mendelson McKenna Mainline), as well as Thomas, Hogg and Syme, was never released.
The demise of Southern Cross effectively put the end to the professional performing careers of both Quill and Bolton. Bolton gave up the drums after Southern Cross and later went into private business. Quill stopped playing professionally for almost two decades and stayed on in Canada, where he married concert promoter-turned-corporate public relations executive, Ellen Davidson, helped raise a family, and became a prominent journalist and music writer.
Quill has written for and edited numerous music magazines (Music Express
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, Graffiti
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, Applaud, Canadian Composer, Songwriter) and published books about Bon Jovi
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(1987), Michael Jackson
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(1988) and The Rolling Stones
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(1989), among others. Since 1983 he has been a journalist and occasional TV and radio commentator on the arts scene in Toronto, where he is an arts columnist for the Toronto Star
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, Canada's largest newspaper.
An impromptu reunion in Melbourne with Kerryn Tolhurst and Chris Stockley in 1999 led to Quill's decision to return to music.
Over the next two years, Quill in Toronto and Tolhurst in New York maintained contact and began working together again. The result was a new batch of songs which eventually appeared in early 2003 on the Quill-Tolhurst album So Rudely Interrupted, released in Canada by True North Records
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. The duo promoted the Canadian release with a concert in October 2003 at C’est What? in Toronto, performing with a full band featuring keyboardist Garth Hudson
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(ex The Band
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) on accordion and piano. Excerpts from the show were aired nationally several times on Bravo! Canada
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’s Arts & Minds program and on CP24. The duo then made a short tour of Australia, marking their first public performances together since 1973, appearing at several festivals, including the Port Fairy Folk Festival
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and the Brunswick Music Festival in Melbourne. Their concerts in Sydney reunited Quill with many old friends from his folk days at The Shack, and at the final event of the tour, at the Bridge Hotel, Sydney, Quill and Tolhurst were joined onstage by Country Radio harmonica player Chris Blanchflower.
Since 2003 Quill has become a regular performer in Canada's roots music scene, as both a solo act and with members of a loose collective that includes Cam MacInnes (guitar), Denis Keldie (accordion), Anne Lindsay (violin), Dennis Pinhorn (bass) and Bucky Berger (drums).
From June 2006 though March 2008 Quill compiled and hosted the hour-long weekly Canadian roots music specialty program River of Song on Sirius Canada
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satellite radio.
He returned to Australia again in July 2009, playing two shows in his home town, one at the revived Shack in Narrabeen, and at the Excelsior Hotel in Sydney, where he was joined for several songs by former bandmates Orlando Agostino and Chris Blanchflower. In January and February 2011 Quill toured Australia's east coast, playing 15 dates with Toronto singer-songwriter Jon Brooks. He is currently recording an album of new material for release in 2011.
Albums
- Fleetwood Plain: Greg Quill and Country Radio (EMI/Harvest 1970 SHVL 602)
- Reissued 1982 under licence to the World Record Club R-02351
- Producer: Gus McNeil.
- Recorded at EMI Studios, Sydney, Australia.
- Engineer: John Taylor.
- Personnel: Greg Quill, vox, guitars; Orlando Agostino, guitars, Chris Blanchflower, harmonica; Graeme Thompson, bass; Jim Yonge, dums; Tony Hamilton, lead guitar; Stan White, piano.
- All songs by Greg Quill © Cellar Music.
- Empty Pockets/Leaving The City (4:58)
- Fleetwood Plain (3:30)
- Paradise (3:47)
- Just Goodbye (4:14)
- I’d Not Let You Be (3:21)
- Song To David (1:45)
- Commissar (4:32)
- Observations From A Second Storey Window (3:39)
- Windy On The Main (5:16)
- Susannah Lee (4:23)
- If You Ever (2:08)
- Kitty’s Song (6:03)
- Country Radio Live: Country Radio (Festival/Infinity 1972 INL 34726)
- Producer: John French and Country Radio.
- Recorded live at TCS Studios, Melbourne, Australia, 4 October 1972.
- Engineers: John French and Graeme McCrae.
- Personnel: Greg Quill, vox and acoustic guitars; Kerryn Tolhurst, lap steel, dobro, mandolin, electric guitar; Tony Bolton, drums; John Bois, bass, harmony vox; John A. Bird, piano and Hammond B3; Chris Blanchflower, harmonica.
- Some Lonesome Picker (John Stewart/Schroeder Music) (4:55)
- Never Goin’ Back (John Stewart/Schroeder Music) (3:47)
- Terry’s Tune (Quill/Cellar Music) (3:53)
- Listen To The Children (Quill/Cellar Music) (4:30)
- Silver Spurs (Quill/Cellar Music) (4:43)
- Gypsy Queen (Quill-Tolhurst/Cellar Music) (4:02)
- Last Time Around (Quill/Cellar Music) (3:32)
- Wintersong (Quill-Tolhurst-Bois/Cellar Music) (5:20)
- Observations From A Second Storey Window (Quill/Cellar Music) (5:03)
- Gypsy Queen: Greg Quill and Country Radio (Festival/Infinity/Harlequin 1974 L 25113)
- Personnel:
- Tracks 1,4,5,6,7,9: Greg Quill, vox, acoustic guitars; Kerryn Tolhurst, lap steel, dobro, mandolin, electric guitar, harmony vox; Tony Bolton, drums, harmony vox; John Bois, bass, harmony vox; John A. Bird, piano, Hammond B3, harmony vox; Chris Blanchflower, harmonica, harmony vox.
- Track 2: Greg Quill: vox, electric and acoustic guitars; Russell Johnson, electric guitar, vox harmony; John Bois, bass, vox harmony; Tony Bolton, drums, vox harmony.
- Tracks 3 and 8: Greg Quill, electric and acoustic guitars, vox; Les Stacpool, electric guitar, vox harmony; John Bois, bass, vox harmony; Tony Bolton, drums, vox harmony.
- Gypsy Queen (Quill-Tolhurst/Cellar Music). Produced by John French, TCS Studios Melbourne 1971. String arrangement by Peter Jones. Single. (4:00)
- I Need Women (Quill/Cellar Music). Produced by John French, engineered by John Sayers, TCS Studios Melbourne, 1973. B-Side. (4:31)
- Bound For South Australia (Traditional/Arrangement Quill-Bolton-Bois-Stacpool/Cellar Music). Produced and engineered by John French, TCS Studios Melbourne, and ATA Studios Sydney, 1974. Single. (3:06)
- Radio Rag (Tolhurst/Cellar Music). Produced by Richard Batchens, Festival Studios Sydney, 1971. B-Side. (2:05)
- Listen To The Children (Quill/Cellar Music). From Country Radio Live. (4:30)
- Last Time Around (Quill/Cellar Music). From Country Radio Live. (3:32)
- Wintersong (Quill-Tolhurst-Bois/Cellar Music). Produced by John French, TCS Studios Melbourne, 1972. String and cor’ anglais arrangements by Peter Jones. Single. (5:20)
- Singin’ The Blues (Endsley/Acuff-Rose). Produced and engineered by John French, TCS Studios Melbourne, 1974. Arrangement: Greg Quill. Piano, Hammond organ, vibraphone, celeste, conga drums by Peter Jones. Harmonies by Renée Geyer. Single. (3:53)
- Observations From A Second Storey Window (Quill/Cellar Music). From Country Radio Live. (5:00)
- The Outlaw's Reply: Greg Quill (Festival/Infinity 1975, L-35,472)
- Producer: John Sayers.
- Executive producer: Charles Fisher.
- Recorded at Trafalgar Studios Sydney, Australia, November 1974 - February 1975
- Personnel: Greg Quill, vox, acoustic guitars; Kerryn Tolhurst, lap steel, mandolin, dobro, acoustic and electric guitars; Tony Bolton, drums; John Bois, bass; Chris Blanchflower, harmonica; Peter Jones, keyboards; Peter Walker, electric guitar, clavier; Russell Hinton, acoustic and electric guitar; Terry Walker, pedal steel, Barry Leef, harmonies and harmony arrangements. String arrangements: Peter Jones.
- All songs by Greg Quill © Cellar Music.
- She Do It To Me (3:41)
- Terry’s Tune (3:50)
- Almost Freedom (4:07)
- So Now, Lady (5:29)
- Where Elephants Go To Die (5:18)
- Silence (7:09)
- Crazy People (4:33)
- The Outlaw’s Reply (3:49)
- Blackmail (5:47)
- Wintersongs: Greg Quill and Country Radio (Festival File 1992)
- (Compilation of material from Fleetwood Plain, Country Radio Live, Gypsy Queen and The Outlaw’s Reply, with liner notes by music archivist Glenn A. Baker).
- Fleetwood Plain (3:30)
- Susannah Lee (4:23)
- Listen To The Children (4:30)
- Last Time Around (3:30)
- The Gypsy Queen (4:00)
- Radio Rag (2:05)
- Wintersong (5:20)
- Observations From A Second Story Window (5:00)
- Some Lonesome Picker (4:55)
- Never Goin' Back (3:47)
- Terry's Tune (3:50)
- Silver Spurs (4:43)
- Bound For South Australia (3:06)
- I Need Women (4:31)
- Singing The Blues (3:53)
- She Do It To Me (3:41)
- Almost Freedom (4:07)
- The Outlaw's Reply (3:49)
- so rudely interrupted: Quill•Tolhurst (Greg Quill and Kerryn Tolhurst)
- Released in Austrilia by So Rude Records (Australia) 2003 (QTCD001-2)
- Released in Canada by True North Records (Canada) 2003 (TND 309)
- Producer: Kerryn Tolhurst.
- Executive Producers: Kerryn Tolhurst and Greg Quill.
- Kerryn Tolhurst: Acoustic and electric guitars, lap steel, dobro, mandolin, harmonium, banjo, tiple, percussion and, except where otherwise indicated, bass.
- Greg Quill: Vocals, acoustic guitars, percussion.
- Recorded by Kerryn Tolhurst, Julian McBrowne, Paul Mills and Joe Johnson.
- Recorded at Unique Studios, New York City; Studio 900, New York City; The Millstream, Toronto, Canada; Emerald City, Melbourne, Australia; Lapland, Brooklyn, NY; Howland House, Niagara-on-the-Lake, Canada; Pearly Shells Studios, Broome, Western Australia.
- Mixed at Studio 900, New York City, by Kerryn Tolhurst, assisted by Joe Johnson.
- Mastered at The Engine Room, New York City, by Dave McNair.
- Cover Image and Graphics: Hugh Syme.
- All songs © So Rude Records.
- Back This Way (Quill /SOCAN) (4:59) Drums: Marco Giovino, Bass: Neal Pawley, Fiddle: Anne Lindsay, Harmonica: Brad Smith.
- Clever Lines (Quill/SOCAN) (3:52) Fiddle: Anne Lindsay, Upright bass: Adam Armstrong.
- The Killing Heart (Quill-Tolhurst/SOCAN-ASCAP) (4:31) Drums: Marco Giovino, Upright bass: Paul Ossola.
- The Game (Quill-Tolhurst/SOCAN-ASCAP) (3:29) Accordion: Charlie Giordano.
- Always To The Light (Quill-Tolhurst/SOCAN-ASCAP) (5:38) Drums: Andrew Swann, Additional vocals: The Pigram Brothers.
- Jigalong (Tolhurst/ASCAP) (1:57)
- A Tale Too Plain (Quill-Tolhurst /SOCAN-ASCAP) (4:30) Drums: Marco Giovino, Bass: Neal Pawley.
- Fleetwood Plain (Quill/SOCAN) (3:17)
- Come To Me (Quill/SOCAN) (3:52) Drums: Andrew Swann.
- The Boys Of Narrabeen (Quill/SOCAN) (4:13) Additional vocals: The Pigram Brothers.
- Lost In A Moment (Quill-Tolhurst/SOCAN-ASCAP) (4:27) Accordion: Charlie Giordano, Fiddle: Anne Lindsay, Upright bass: Adam Armstrong, Piano: Monique Dimantina.
Greg Quill and Country Radio
- "Fleetwood Plain" (Quill/Cellar Music) b/w "Song To David" (Quill/Cellar Music) Columbia 1970
- "Listen To The Children" (Quill/Cellar Music) b/w "Last Time Around" (Quill/Cellar Music) Festival/Infinity 1971
Country Radio
- "Gypsy Queen" (Quill-Tolhurst/Cellar Music) b/w "Radio Rag" (Tolhurst/Cellar Music) Festival/Infinity 1972, Sweet Plum Records (Canada) 1973
- "Wintersong" (Quill-Tolhurst-Bois/Cellar Music) b/w "Observations From A Second Storey Window" (Quill/Cellar Music) Festival/Infinity 1972
- "Bound For South Australia" (Traditional/Arrangement Quill-Bolton-Bois-Stacpool/Cellar Music) b/w "I Need Women" (Quill/Cellar Music) Festival/Infinity 1973
Greg Quill
- "She Do It to Me" (Quill/Cellar Music) b/w "Terry's Tune" (Quill/Cellar Music) Festival/Infinity 1975
- "Blackmail" (Quill/Cellar Music) b/w "The Outlaw's Reply" (Quill/Cellar Music) Festival/Infinity 1975
- "Been So Long"Remixed and re-edited in Toronto by Alan Thorne, with Greg Quill (vox, electric guitar), Steve Hogg (bass), Ian Thomas (harmonies), Hugh Syme (keyboards), Sam See (lead guitar), Chris Stockley (electric guitar), Tony Bolton (drums).
(Quill/Kelly Songs) b/w I "Wonder Why" (Quill/Kelly Songs) Elektra (Canada) 1979
Greg Quill and Southern Cross
- "Been So Long" (Quill/Cellar Music) b/w "I Wonder Why" (Quill/Cellar Music) WEA 1978 (Australia)
Other Recordings
- Country Radio: "Silver Spurs" (Quill/Cellar Music), The Great Australian Rock Festival Sunbury (Mushroom 1973)
Recordings by Others
- "Gypsy Queen"
- The Glaser Brothers, MGM Records, USA, 1974 (single)
- Joe Camilleri, Earth Music, Independent, Australia, 1997
- Adam Harvey, Sugar Talk, Warner Music, Australia, 1999
- "Almost Freedom"
- Company Caine, The Band's Alright But The Singer Is..., Reprise RS 4001, Australia, 1973
- "Fleetwood Plain"
- Reg Lindsay, Festival Records, 1971
- Creamcheeze Good Time Band, Home Cookin, Dominion/MCA, 1973
Sources
- Greg Quill homepage
- MILESAGO: Australian Music and Popular Culture: 1964-1975
- Music Australia
- McFarlane, Ian (1999). "Encyclopedia entry for 'Country Radio'". Encyclopedia of Australian Rock and Pop. St Leonards, NSW: Allen & Unwin. http://web.archive.org/web/20040628154845/www.whammo.com.au/encyclopedia.asp?articleid=227.
- ""Wintersong" at APRA search engine". Australasian Performing Right Association (APRA). http://www.apra-amcos.com.au/worksearch.axd?q=Wintersong. Retrieved on 5 August 2009.
- "Gypsy Queen" at APRA search engine". Australasian Performing Right Association (APRA). http://www.apra-amcos.com.au/worksearch.axd?q=Gypsy%20Queen. Retrieved on 5 August 2009.