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Pursuing the notion that he and McComb had just formed a distinct country band, Paterson asked Graham Lee to play dobro for the project, in order to boost the country sound and to make the personnel less obviously just the
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visited the group again and McComb was eager to follow a particular musical avenue, asking
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pay for the recording, and they felt that at that time they had glutted the market with several recent releases, so the record should be a Lawson Square
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incorrect printing resulted in one of the few strained moments in his and McComb's friendship when McComb, back in Perth, thought
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323:"When My Heart Breaks"
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196:in Sydney.
74:August 1984
1012:Categories
961:Holy Water
557:27 October
534:27 October
381:References
367:Graham Lee
320:"Figurine"
108:chronology
862:Stockholm
815:Cassettes
745:Calenture
692:Jill Birt
340:Personnel
252:Reception
89:folk rock
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376:) - bass
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67:Recorded
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770:Reverie
628:5 March
329:"Mercy"
211:Details
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