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Jane Dust

by Jane Dust

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1.
Winds of Change 03:06
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2.
The North Side 04:47
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3.
I Believe! 02:50
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4.
A Bird's Journey 03:45
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5.
Old Flame 02:57
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6.
Friday Night 03:33
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Doreen Willowkawee 04:32
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8.
Summertime 03:14
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Round Green Eyes 04:21
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10.
Ode to Noel Scott 03:36
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about

Jane Dust has a great name, instantly memorable and evocative of the golden age of stars like Johnny Cash, Cilla Black, or Dusty Springfield. This is no accident, because this is the era Dust pays homage to with her ambitious and accomplished second album. Ignoring popular music styles of the past three decades, Dust would have been at home slaving over an upright piano in a dusty room at the Brill Building, next-door to Carole King, hammering out hit after hit.

Not only are Dust’s songwriting sensibilities informed by such greats as Bacharach and David, The Walker Brothers and Emmylou Harris, she also possesses a sophisticated, honeyed voice of great range and expressive ability that’s perfectly suited to the material. She’s as comfortable with lilting country rock tones, as she is with torch song ballads and honky tonk belters, and she can write them all.

More than a confessional songwriter, Dust has the ability to create that elusive beast – a pop song which attains universality, with all the exaggerated drama of a young Dolly Parton, but none of the bombast. Having studied the pop masters, composers of teenage symphonies and milkers of melodrama, she knows how best to present her material, when to hold back and when to bring in the the full enchilada of strings and horns. To this end, she enlisted James Hodson, whose arrangements bolster an all-star cast of musicians that include Clare Moore on drums, Stu Thomas on bass, Will Hindmarsh (Go Go Sapien) on keys and guitar, Julitha Ryan (Silver Ray) on piano, Kay Louise Patterson (Acuff’s Rose) on flute, and Nick Lam on electric guitar. Engineer Casey Rice captured all this in a lush, but never insipid co-production.

It’s a long way from Dust’s beginnings as bass player and lead singer in Melbourne cow-punk band The Muddy Spurs a few years back. Even her debut release A Spray Of Red From The Deep (2008) only hinted at this flowering of talent. By looking back, Dust has made a mighty leap forward. In a world of disposable starlets, hyper-inflated trends and gimmicky revisionist chic, she’s the rarest thing: a class act.

by René Schaefer

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released September 12, 2010

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Jane Dust Melbourne, Australia

(1) Jane Dust solo phase 2, 2021 -
(2) Routines 2017 -present
(3) Jane Dust and the Giant Hoopoes 2006 - 2012ish
(4) Jane Dust solo phase 1, 2005 - 2008
(5) The Muddy Spurs 2001 - 2005

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