Lawson is the first album by John Schumann and the Vagabond Crew

John Schumann and the Vagabond Crew

John Schumann and the Vagabond Crew is an Australian folk group formed in Adelaide in 2005. The band's name is taken from a line in Henry Lawson's poem "Knocking Around". Since it was founded a number of Australian musicians have been involved...

. It is Schumann's first album since 1993's True Believers

True Believers (John Schumann album)

True Believers is the second solo album by John Schumann, previously the frontman of Redgum. Released in 1993, it was reissued in 2009.-Album artwork:...

.

It marked the first time that Schumann

John Schumann

John Lewis Schumann is an Australian singer, songwriter and guitarist from Adelaide. He is best known as the lead singer for the folk group Redgum, with their chart-topping hit "I Was Only 19 ", a song exploring the psychological and medical side-effects of serving in the Australian forces during...

 had worked on an album with Hugh McDonald

Hugh McDonald (Australian musician)

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 and Michael Atkinson

Michael Atkinson (musician)

"'Michael Atkinson'" is an Australian musician and composer. He was a member of Redgum from 1975-1987. While with Redgum he wrote many of the band's songs. After leaving Redgum he worked as a composer on Australia films and television series, including the Russell Crowe film Heaven's Burning and...

 since Schumann left Redgum

Redgum

Redgum were an Australian folk and political music group formed in Adelaide in 1975 by singer-songwriter John Schumann, Michael Atkinson on guitars/vocals and Verity Truman on flute/vocals; they were soon joined by Chris Timms on violin. All four had been students at Flinders University and...

 in 1986.

The album consists of the poetry of Henry Lawson

Henry Lawson

Henry Lawson was an Australian writer and poet. Along with his contemporary Banjo Paterson, Lawson is among the best-known Australian poets and fiction writers of the colonial period and is often called Australia's "greatest writer"...

 put to music.

Album artwork

The cover art shows John Schumann and Henry Lawson, seemingly gazing at each other across the ages.

Track listing

1. "To An Old Mate"
2. "Knocking Around"
3. "The Glass on the Bar"
4. "Second Class Wait Here"
5. "Faces In The Street"
6. "The Bush Girl"
7. "Taking His Chance"
8. "Scots of the Riverina
   Scots of the Riverina
   Scots of the Riverina is an Australian bush poem by Henry Lawson. It is set in the Riverina, New South Wales in the town of Gundagai. It tells of a boy who leaves home at the start of the harvest to move to the city, an unheard of and unforgivable thing for a Scot to do in the early 1900's,...
   
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9. "To Hannah"
10. "A Prouder Man Than You"
11. "The Low Lighthouse"
12. "The Shame of Going Back"
13. "To Jim"

Personnel

The Vagabond Crew

• Michael Atkinson
  Michael Atkinson (musician)
  "'Michael Atkinson'" is an Australian musician and composer. He was a member of Redgum from 1975-1987. While with Redgum he wrote many of the band's songs. After leaving Redgum he worked as a composer on Australia films and television series, including the Russell Crowe film Heaven's Burning and...
  
  
• Shannon Bourne
• Paul Cartwright
• Michael Harris
• Rob Hirst
  Rob Hirst
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• Marcia Howard
• Shane Howard
• Toby Lang
• Mal Logan
• Louise McCarthy
• Hugh McDonald
  Hugh McDonald (Australian musician)
  Hugh McDonald is an Australian musician. Active since the 1970s, he performed and recorded with The Bushwackers, The Sundowners, Moving Cloud, and The Colonials....
  
  
• Russell Morris
  Russell Morris
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• Alan Pigram
• Steven Pigram
• Mike Rudd
  Mike Rudd
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• Broderick Smith
  Broderick Smith
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• Chris Stockley
• Mick Wordley

Demo musicians

• Ian "Polly" Politis
• Rohan Powell
• Matt Schumann
• Anthony Thyer

Additional musician (mentioned on individual song pages in the liner notes)

• 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...