Maurice Frawley & The Yard Hands
[Promoting their new album ‘Good Things’ on Red Finn Records label with MGM Distribution]
With Randall-Blair
@Toast
7th June
[merriment commences @ 8.30]
www.mauricefrawley.com
www.randall-blair.com
Life & Times
Hailing from a farming community in Northern Victorian, Maurice Frawley ventured down to Melbourne in the late 1970s and became a guitarist in Paul Kelly’s early band the Dots. He helped write “Look So Fine, Feel So Low” before moving on to the legendary Olympic Sideburns. In the early 1990s he formed Maurice Frawley & Working Class Ringos with double bass player Shane Walsh. The Ringos band members all had fine musical pedigree – dobro player Charlie Owen played with Tex, Don & Charlie and the Beasts of Bourbon, Shane Walsh with Red Rivers and drummer Des Hefner did a stint with Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, and of course that wonderfully lyrical tickler of ivories and Bad Seed for a millennium or so, Conway Savage.
In 2000, Harness Down a track from Maurice’s album ‘Triple Skin Marquee’ was included on the ABC ‘Airplay Vol. 3’ compilation. It proved to be a favourite of the vast ABC radio audience and resulted in several tours through the east coast of Australia and up to Far North Queensland.
In the same year Maurice Frawley and his band a performed live session on the ABC TV national music program Studio 22 and in 2001 they played a live set for the cable channel Country Music Television.
In 2003 Maurice Frawley embarked on a special family project Frawleys & Friends that culminated in the critically acclaimed 2003 release ‘Queen of Runnymede’.
In 2005 Maurice invited Garrett Costigan (pedal steel), Alan Brooker (bass guitar), Jimmy Williams (electric guitars) and Craig Williamson (drums) to join his new band Maurice Frawley & The Yard Hands. Maurice’s new album ‘Good Things’ will be released in April 2006 on his label Red Finn Records with MGM Distribution.
See www.mauricefrawley.com
MP3 Download
(“Amelia” (4.26mb) [ Good Things]
“Dirt Road” (4.35mb) [Good Things]
“Harness Down” (3.08mb) [Triple Skin Marquee]
“Jesus On The Mainland” (2.82mb) [Triple Skin Marquee]
“Queen Stone” (2.54mb) [Livin Lazy]
Media Download Maurice Frawley & The Yard Hands – Biography –
Reviews Album Reviews
Interviews
Interview with Maurice Frawley Time Off Magazine (16 May 2001)
Interview with Maurice Frawley ATN (22 Feb 2001)
Interview with Maurice Frawley & Charlie Owen Beat Magazine (31 May 2000)
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