Coloured Stone - 1985 - Island Of Greed FLAC

Island of Greed/No More Boomerang/Magic Girl/Sacred Ground/Breaking Hearts/Take Me Back to the Dreamtime/Dancing in the Moonlight/This Land/I Miss My Way of Living/The Land My Mother/I'm Going Back to Alice Springs


 Coloured Stone is a band from the Koonibba Mission, west of Ceduna, South Australia. Their sound has been described as having a unique feel and Aboriginal (Indigenous Australian) qualities. The band performs using guitar, bass, drums, and Aboriginal instruments – didjeridu, bundawuthada (gong stone) and clap sticks – to play traditional music such as the haunting "Mouydjengara", a whale-dreaming song of the Mirning people. 

 The original Coloured Stone band members were three brothers, Bunna Lawrie (drums & lead vocals), and Neil Coaby (rhythm guitar & backing vocals) and Mackie Coaby (bass & backing vocals), and their nephew, Bruce (aka Bunny) Mundy (lead guitar & backing vocals). All are from the mission settlement of Koonibba, South Australia. Bunna Lawrie is the leader and singer of the band and he was also their original drummer.

Bunna Lawrie is also a member and respected elder of the Mirning Aboriginal tribe from the Coastal Nullabor, South Australia. He is a Mirning whaledreamer and songman, medicine man and story teller of his tribe. He is Coloured Stone's founding member and chief songwriter.

 The band's single, "Black Boy" was a success when first released in 1984 -it became the number one song in Fiji and it sold 120,000 copies. It was followed by "When You Gonna Learn" and "Dancin' in the Moonlight". The lyrics of "Black Boy" included the line "Black boy, black boy, the colour of your skin is your pride and joy," which was a somewhat revolutionary sentiment for Aboriginals of Australia in the 1980s. It moved black audiences to increase their dancing each time it was played at an early gig in Alice Springs.

 Bunna Lawrie's son, Jason Scott played guitar, bass, drums and didgeridu for Coloured Stone from the age of 13 years. His first major gig was "Rock Against Racism" in Adelaide. Jason has also performed at the Sydney Opera House and he toured the US in 1994 with the Wirrangu Band as part of a cultural exchange program. With his band 'Desert Sea', Jason released an album in 2002 titled 'From the Desert to the Sea'.

The current members of Coloured Stone are: Bunna Lawrie (vocals, rhythm guitar, didgeridu, gong stone), Selwyn Burns (lead guitar, vocals), Peter Hood (drums), Cee Cee Honeybee (backing vocals) and guest musicians (bass guitarist, didgeridu player, keyboard player

Catfish - 1988 - Unlimited Address

When You Dance/Hiwire Girl/The Early Hours/Subway/One Night In Soviet Russia/My Backyard/Pre-War Blues/Station/Unlimited Address



Don Walker was born in Ayr, North Queensland, in 1951.

As a member of and the main songwriter for Cold Chisel between 1973 and 1983, he wrote Saturday Night, Cheap Wine, Standing on the Outside, Four Walls, Khe Sanh along with many others, and co-wrote Flame Trees.

He also wrote and produced the soundtrack for the Scott Hicks movie Freedom in 1981, featuring most of Cold Chisel and then unknown INXS singer Michael Hutchence.

In 1988, after a break from music and time spent traveling, he released Unlimited Address, a set of songs under the band name Catfish, recorded with producer/guitar player Peter Walker and harmonica player David Blight. As a touring band Catfish also included guitar player Charlie Owen.

In 1991 the second Catfish album, Ruby, was released, recorded with James Brown’s rhythm section of drummer Tony Cook and guitar player Ron Laster. The songs were more Australian in content. Slim Dusty had a hit with his version of Charleville, which he then invited Don to re-record as a duet.

In 1993 the Tex, Don and Charlie album, Sad But True was released in Australia and Europe. A collaboration with Tex Perkins and Charlie Owen, Sad But True showed the first results of the songwriting Walker had been doing in Nashville the previous two years. Tex, Don and Charlie toured, recording and releasing the live album Monday Morning Coming Down.

In 1994 Don Walker recorded his first solo album. We’re All Gunna Die over four days at Electric Avenue Studios in Sydney, with a touring band featuring David Blight and Red Rivers on guitar. Released in 1995, it was reviewed as “a masterpiece” and “possibly the best Australian album released in years.”

That same year Origin Records re-released the Freedom soundtrack.
In 1998 Cold Chisel released their first studio album for fifteen years entitled The Last Wave of Summer, which entered the national charts at number one and followed it up with a 22 date national tour.

In 2005 Don, Tex Perkins and Charlie Owen recorded and released the widely acclaimed All Is Forgiven, their first album together for twelve years, and completed a sold-out national tour to showcase that album. In 2006 All Is Forgiven was nominated for the inaugural Australian Music Prize.

In July 2006, Don’s second solo album, Cutting Back, was released by Warners, and he toured live with the Suave Fucks, featuring Red Rivers on guitar.

Over the years Don has also written songs for Jeff Lang, Mick Harvey, Troy Cassar-Daley, Jimmy Little, Jimmy Barnes, Ian Moss, Anne Kirkpatrick and many others.
In 2000 he wrote the title song for Slim Dusty’s hundredth album Looking Forward, Looking Back.

Don’s first book Shots, was published by Black Inc. in 2009.

After Cold Chisel wrapped the 2011 Light The Nitro tour, the largest tour ever by an Australian band or artist, and released No Plans, Don released his incredible third solo album, Hully Gully, in 2013 before again embarking on a tour with The Suave Fucks. A song from Hully Gully, The Perfect Crime, became the title song for the Cold Chisel album of that name that was released in 2015.

In 2017 Don teamed up once more with Tex Perkins and Charlie Owen for the third Tex Don and Charlie album You Don’t Know Lonely followed by a 26 date national tour.

Bio source: http://www.coldchisel.com/band/don-walker/
Vinyl rip: RAM