BRETT WHITELEY - STRANGE BREW: SONGS OF INSPIRATION (1996)
Brett Whiteley (1939 - 1992) was one of the best-known Australian painters of the 20th century.
Visit the Brett Whiteley Studio web site.
Tracks
Disc 1:
- Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues (4:46) - Nina Simone
- Interview (0:14) - Brett Whiteley
- Interview (0:15) - Bob Dylan *
- Desolation Row (11:21) - Bob Dylan
- Bird On The Wire (4:24) - Joe Cocker
- Shiver Me Timbers (3:46) - Tom Waits
- Bach: Suite No. 1 in G Major (2:48) - Anner Bylsma
- O Superman (For Massenet) (8:23) - Laurie Anderson
- God Bless The Child (3:58) - Billie Holiday
- Coolsville (3:47) - Rickie Lee Jones
- I Cover The Waterfront (5:19) - John Lee Hooker
- The Unfaithful Servant (4:14) - The Band
- Willow (4:46) - Joan Armatrading
- Crazy Mama (2:23) - JJ Cale
- Interview (0:32) - Brett Whiteley
- Chelsea Hotel #2 (3:05) - Leonard Cohen
- Interview (7:18) - Brett Whiteley
- Night In Hell - Steve Kilbey (possibly a hidden track or part of the previous track)
Disc 2:
- Interview (1:02) - Mark Knopfler
- Romeo & Juliet (5:52) - Dire Straits
- Gymnopédie 1 (3:38) - Daniel Varsano
- Interview (0:12) - Brett Whiteley
- Many Rivers To Cross (3:00) - Jimmy Cliff
- Private Life (6:24) - The Pretenders
- Chidori No Kyoku (2:41) - Ayako Lister
- All Blues (11:33) - Miles Davis
- Two Lovers (3:42) - Ali Akbar Khan
- Last Night I Had A Dream (3:01) - Randy Newman
- Interview (0:27) - Brett Whiteley
- Strange Brew (2:47) - Cream
- Ball And Chain (9:10) - Big Brother & The Holding Company
- Interview (1:31) - Philip Adams
- Madame George (5:12) - Van Morrison
- Interview (0:29) - Brett Whiteley
* A 15-second snippet from a telephone interview with Bob Dylan (in Los Angeles) by Australian journalist Stuart Coupe (in Sydney) on 13 March 1992, in which he mentions artist Brett Whiteley.
Releases
- 2CD - Columbia BW 481 538 2 (Australia) - March 1996
Notes
Steve Kilbey reads "Night In Hell" from Arthur Rimbaud's A Season In Hell.