Lily is the second solo studio album

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 by Australia

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n singer-songwriter Wendy Matthews

Wendy Matthews

Wendy Joan Matthews is an Australian adult alternative pop singer originally from Canada who has been a member of Models and Absent Friends and is a solo artist...

 released by rooArt

RooArt

rooArt was an Australian independent record label, founded in 1988 by INXS's then-manager, Chris Murphy. The label's roster included several well-known Australian bands and artists such as Crow, Ratcat, Screaming Jets, You Am I, Wendy Matthews, The Hummingbirds, The Trilobites and Amanda Brown...

 in Australia on 28 September 1992 (see 1992 in music

1992 in music

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). Matthews travelled to Canada

Canada

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 with her mother for the album to discover their heritage, which influences the album. Matthews states the album "overall, has vulnerability . . . [it is] really heart on your sleeve stuff". The album won Matthews the "Best Female Artist" award at the ARIA Awards in 1993, where the album was also nominated for "Album of the Year". It yielded four singles; "The Day You Went Away", "Friday's Child", "If Only I Could" and "T.K.O.".

The album reached #2 on the Australian album charts, remaining in the charts for 52 weeks. The album was certified triple-platinum in Australia.

A limited edition version was later released with a bonus CD, IX, of live tracks. The first five tracks on the bonus disc were recorded live at the Montreux Jazz Festival

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, July 1993 and the last track is a French

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 version of "The Day You Went Away".

The album was also released in North American and Europe on Atlantic/WEA.

Track listing

All songwriters as listed

1. "Friday's Child" (David Munday, Sandy Stewart) – 3:56
2. "Walk Away" (B. Hogan, J. Koller) – 4:04
3. "T.K.O." (Cecil Womack
   Cecil Womack
   In 1983, under the name of Womack & Womack, Cecil and Linda released a successful album, Love Wars, and continued to make albums until 1993. Their song "Love Wars" was covered by The Beautiful South for the 1990 compilation Rubáiyát. Their most successful single was "Teardrops" in 1988.-Albums:*...
   
   ) – 5:20
4. "Mother Can’t Do" (Robert James) – 4:32
5. "Quiet Art" (W. Matthews, M. O'Connor) – 5:47
6. "The Day You Went Away" (Mark Batson
   Mark Batson
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   , Edward Male Jonathon) – 4:39
7. "If Only I Could" (Ralf Hamm, Markus Stabb, Sydney Youngblood
   Sydney Youngblood
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   , Claus Zundel
   Claus Zundel
   Claus Zundel is a German composer, songwriter, producer and pianist. He has created several worldwide successful musical projects, most notable - Sacred Spirit and B-Tribe , as well as more Indie projects such as "Moroccan Spirit", "Classical Spirit", "Divine Works", Ancient Spirit and his latest...
   
   ) – 4:39
8. "Homecoming Song" (Robert Nelson James) – 5:01
9. "Face of Appalachia" (Lowell George
   Lowell George
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   , John Sebastien) – 5:26
10. "Naming Names" (S. Lynch, P. White) – 4:39
11. "Inexorably Yours" (John Joseph Gordon) – 3:16

Limited edition bonus disc - IX

1. "The Water Is Wide" (Traditional) – 3:57
2. "Square Moon" (K. Govett, G. Stapleton, R. James) – 4:06
3. "Doomsday Lullaby" (Danny Bruce Peck) – 4:26
4. "Going Back to My Roots" (Dozier Lamont Herbert) – 5:26
5. "The Weavers Song" – 1:52
6. "The Day You Went Away" – 4:35

Credits

• Wendy Matthews — vocals
• Jon Farriss
  Jon Farriss
  Jon Farriss is the drummer for the Australian rock band INXS.-Biography:...
  
   — drums, percussion
• Garry Gary Beers — bass
• Booker T. Jones
  Booker T. Jones
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   — keyboards

Release history

Region	Date	Label	Format	Catalogue
Australia Australia Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...	28 September, 1992	RooART RooArt rooArt was an Australian independent record label, founded in 1988 by INXS's then-manager, Chris Murphy. The label's roster included several well-known Australian bands and artists such as Crow, Ratcat, Screaming Jets, You Am I, Wendy Matthews, The Hummingbirds, The Trilobites and Amanda Brown...	CD, Cassette Compact Cassette The Compact Cassette, often referred to as audio cassette, cassette tape, cassette, or simply tape, is a magnetic tape sound recording format. It was designed originally for dictation, but improvements in fidelity led the Compact Cassette to supplant the Stereo 8-track cartridge and reel-to-reel...	4509905472
	21 September, 1993	Atlantic Atlantic Records Atlantic Records is an American record label best known for its many recordings of rhythm and blues, rock and roll, and jazz...	CD	92269
	9 December, 1996	BMG	CD	74321444142

Charts

Chart (1992)	Peak position
Australian ARIA Albums Chart	2

End of year charts

Chart (1992)	Peak position
Australian ARIA Albums Chart	33
Chart (1993)	Peak position
Australian ARIA Albums Chart	26