Track Listing

1. Karate

2. Stratosphere Boogie

3. Catalina

4. Brazilian Flower

5. Um A Zero-1XO

6. Crepuscule on the Yarra

7. Big Chief

8. You Gotta Move

9. Cascade

10. North Wind

11. Ben Hall, the streets of Forbes

12. Hoe-Down

13. Homestead

14. Tears of Love's Recall

15. After the Carousal

16. Winnie

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 More Info and Reviews

Andrew Pendlebury started performing in the mid 1970’s  venturing into bands like The Sharks, before joining the R&B/country outfit The Carrl Myriad Band.

In 1977 Andrew moved on to become a member of The Sports an R&B Rockabilly band. At the time the music scene was experiencing somewhat of a renaissance with a highly competitive and vibrant burst of new bands defining what was to become known years later, as the “Australian sound”. The Sports became a big part of that awakening, breaking through with songs like “Boys - (What did the detective say)”, “Don’t throw Stones” and “Who listens to the Radio?”, they quickly became one of the hottest bands in the nation.

During his time with The Sports, Andrew also moonlighted with The Gentlemen which consisted of members from Skyhooks and Daddy Cool.

The Sports fourth album “Sondra” came out in 1981, garnished with three singles “Stop the baby talking”, “How come?” and “When we go out tonight”. By the end of the year The Sports had called it a day.

Andrew then spent a year with The Dugites before joining the newly formed Stephen Cummings Band. Pendlebury played on Stephen’s first solo album “Senso” and three albums to follow over the next five years, also touring Australia with the outfit.

1987 saw Andrew branch out with his first solo album “Between the Horizon and the Dockyard” which stamped the guitarist as a major talent in his own right.  The album also contained two co-writes with Stephen Cummings - one of those tracks “She set fire to the house” is surely one of the most mood setting and evocative songs penned in this country. Andrew also ventured out during this time with bassist Mark Ferrie in The Slaughtermen, a very energetic white gospel, blues orientated outfit.The band put in some very inspired performances and produced two albums and many singles.

By 1988 Pendlebury released “Tigerland” his second solo album, followed in 1990 by “Zing went the Strings” as part of the WEA Records “Gallery Series”. On both albums Andrew worked with players like Pete Linden (pedal steel), Paul Grabowsky (piano), Stephen Hadley (bass), J. J. Hacket (drums), and others including Shane O’Mara, Nick Smith, Stephen Cummings, Doug De Vries and Michael Williams, all of whom helped to provide the understated and classy backing to Pendlebury’s contemplative, instrumental guitar work.

For “Don’t hold back that Feeling”, Pendlebury’s fourth solo project, he enlisted some guest vocalists including Chris Wilson, Deborah Conway, Kate Cerebrano and Dave Steel. The album was critically acclaimed and went on to win the 1993 ARIA for “Best Adult Contemporary album”.

Andrew had known Doug DeVries for some years prior when in 1993 they collaborated on the album ‘Karate’.
A master jazz guitarist, Doug’s sensibilities teamed with Andrew’s vast palette of sounds, and ability were the catalyst for the creation of this masterwork encompassing blues, jazz, gypsy, folk and boogie. What also made the musical experience so distinctive, was that it was all performed on acoustic guitar.

Reviews

'Doug de Vries and Andrew Pendlebury
first duo recording - a beauty

Take two top Melbourne guitarists, with backgrounds in jazz de Vries and rock Pendlebury, let them loose on an intriguing array of acoustic standards and originals from Brazill to New Orleans and Nashville or as far afield as Soweto and the streets of Forbes.

Although each has played on the other's solo records, and they perform together regularly around town, this is the first duo recording and it's a beauty. Backing is by Denis Close on Brazilian hand percussion, bassist Steve Hadley and drummer Peter Jones.

You will recognise tracks such as the quirky Crepuscle on the Yarra which featured on the Moon Over Melbourne collection, Pendlebury's Catalina or de Vries's Homestead and After The Carousel from their respective solo albums.

The elegant Egberto Gismonti title number contrasts with the breakneck Western swing of Stratosphere Boogie by Jimmy Bryant - a favourite of Pendlebury's - and they swing to a more refined soul jazz metre in Oliver Nelson's Hoe-Down trading sneaky licks until de Vries switches to a down-home banjo.

Among other impressive tracks a spirited arrangement of the New Orleans Mardi Gras classic Big Chief (no doubt inspired by the Neville Brothers great concert rendition), the steady rolling blues of You Gotta Move, a languorous rendition of k d lang's Tears of Love's Recall and a superb de Vries original called Winnie based on South Africa's infectious township jive.'

Mike Daly
The Melbourne Age
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