Reckless Records
2007
Lost Men And Angry Girls
About This Album
Australian expatriate singer/songwriter Audrey Auld Mezera was Australian singer/songwriter Audrey Auld until three years ago, when she moved to the U.S. and got married. Following two live albums, Lost Men and Angry Girls is her first studio album since her relocation. As she makes clear on the disc's first song, "Bolinas," named after her new place of residence in northern California, however, she still considers herself a foreigner, and so entitled to lecture Americans about their violent tendencies: "I know you're all fighting for peace," she scolds, "There'd be peace if you just stopped fighting." In a larger sense, Mezera has always been something of an outsider, however, and she has reveled in that role. She is a fan of American country music, maintaining a close alliance with fellow Australian Bill Chambers, the father of Kasey Chambers, and the album is full of tributes to country music, including "Looking for Luckenbach" (which ends with Bill Chambers singing part of Waylon Jennings' hit "Luckenbach, Texas (Back to the Basics of Love),") and "Clinch Mountain Prayer," which evokes the Carter Family. Yet Mezera is concerned with a different set of troubles from those encountered by rural American southerners, as she notes in "Down in a Hole," in which she conjures a mining town and contrasts it with her own emotional landscape: "I never cried while my lungs turned black/But I cry for the black of my soul.
Track List (try tracks 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8 and 9)

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