Graeme's 2004 CD Release 'Life in the Heartland'
is available to you for $10 (AUD) includes P & H and GST.
Get your copy NOW! Order via email sales@heartland.org.au
and/or send your cheque/money order to PO Box 421 GUNGAHLIN. ACT. 2912 (Australia)

The Project :
'Life in the Heartland' was the result of 4 live performances at Cafe Injoy between November 21st, 2003 and January 4th, 2004. I used these 'Live in the Heartland' sessions to re-engage the live performance of my own material, re-visiting songs from my vault and trying out some new material.

Once that 6 week season came to a close, I enlisted the help of my good friend and musician/sound engineer Dene Burton to help me reproduce it in a relaxed studio setting. We simply played a mixture of old and new songs essentially 'raw', with as 'live' a feel as possible and a minimum of overdubs.

So, after 4 days of recording in Dene's lounge room, we have a product designed to be a bridge between the more highly produced band albums from the past 8 years of my performance journey and the new season of solo, cafe style material. This album is a step towards the specific celebration of the new season which I hope will be captured on the full studio recording, 'Burn', scheduled for release in June of this year.

I will still use a band where that is useful or even required, but I want to focus on a more personally reproducible and widely accessible product as I launch this new phase of my music career. 'Life in the Heartland' gives me something to work with and simply reflects the most frequently performed live versions of this particular set of songs. I hope you like it.

Love
Graeme