Old Dog New Trick Album tracks. Produced by Matt Fell

All We Need

Nowhere Fast

Great Divide

Keep Us Alive

Drinking Too Much

Life's Too Short

Give It All Away

This song was written at the end of 2013 as Christmas was fast approaching.
2013 had been a tough year for me and my community here in the Blue Mountains, west of Sydney. The mountains were struck with a terrible bush fire and over 200 homes were reduced to ash in my neighboring suburb. Many of the occupants were friends of mine.
I lost my much loved mother in law to pancreatic cancer and had my own scare with skin cancer around the same time. I was glad to make it to see another Christmas and grateful and newly appreciative of the time I had with my family at Christmas.
I was also reflecting on my friends and family separated from their loved ones around the globe at Christmas, so it was also a song for them.
The track features the extraordinary talents of a few young friends of mine, two of whom I taught music to when I was a high school music teacher. Jake Nauta, who produced and recorded the track for me and who also sang and lent his keyboard skills to the project and Grant Konemann, who's wonderful drumming is all over the track. Lachlan Price, a wonderfully tasteful young bassist and friend added the bass parts you hear. All the other additional bits from vocals, acoustic guitars, baritone electric guitar, electric guitars and dobro were mine.
credits
released 09 September 2014

Written October 2013.
Produced by Jake Nauta.
Recorded by Jake Nauta @ Queens Road Studio, Lawson, NSW, Australia, Sept 2014.
Phil Davidson: Vocals and all guitars.
Jake Nauta: Wurlitzer keyboard, backing vocals, additional percussion. Grant Konemann: Drums and percussion.
Lachlan Price: Bass guitar.
Special thanks to Peter Wallis and Terry Cox. 

Long Way From Home (This Christmas)

5 Tracks from my 1st solo album, 'Something Special'. Released in 1987. Recorded at Windwood Studios, Lawson. Produced by David Simpfendorfer. Mixed by Jeff Todd. Remastered at Soundview Studios, Wentworth Falls.
Something Special was written for my niece and nephews Aaron and Elise. Great Unknown was written on a bus driving thru the outback towards Broken Hill. It features my first ever attempt at a banjo. I still own the banjo, and haven't gotten any better at playing it. Maria was a cryptic song for an old love. Names were changed to protect the innocent. I wrote the main song on an old 4 track cassette machine. Depths Of My Soul was another heartbreak song from around the same era.

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