The Loner | |
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Live album by | |
Released | 1973 |
Recorded | Bathurst Gaol |
Genre | Australian folk, Australian rock, country |
Length | 33:00 |
Label | RCA |
The Loner is a live album by Australian singer-songwriter, Vic Simms, which was recorded when he was incarcerated in Bathurst Gaol in 1973.
Vic Simms was convicted of a robbery in 1968 and was serving his seven-year sentence in Bathurst Gaol. [1] While imprisoned he taught himself guitar and started song writing. [1] The Robin Hood Foundation sent his demo tape to RCA Limited, which organised a mobile studio to be sent to the prison. [1] Simms recorded his solo live album, The Loner, over one hour and it was released in 1973. [1] [2]
All tracks were written by Vic Simms (as William Victor Simms). [3]
During 2014 Brisbane musician, Luke Peacock, was converting analogue recordings into a digital archive when he came across, The Loner. [1] With Simms aboard, he established the Painted Ladies, a loose collaboration of various Australian artists, to record an album, The Painted Ladies Play Selections from the Loner, which was issued on 26 May 2014 via Plus One Records. [4] [5]
Besides Simms and Peacock, the other musicians were the Medics (a Cairns-based group), Paul Kelly, Paddy McHugh, the Warm Guns Choir, John Busby, Greg Cathcart, Kahl Wallace, Roger Knox, Bunna Lawrie and Rusty Hopkinson (of You Am I). [5] [6] Hopkinson also produced the recording. [5] In November 2017 The Painted Ladies Play Selections from the Loner was listed in the book, The 110 Best Australian Albums, by music journalists Toby Creswell, Craig Mathieson and John O'Donnell. [7] [8]