Electric Digger Dandy

Electric Digger Dandy

Australian album cover
Studio album by James Reyne
Released June 1991
Recorded 1990-91
Genre Rock music
Length 47:00
Label Free City Music/ Virgin Records (Australia)
Charisma (US)
Producer Simon Hussey
James Reyne chronology
Hard Reyne
(1989)
"Electric Digger Dandy"
(1991)
The Best
(1992)
Alternative cover
US album cover
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[1]

Electric Digger Dandy is the third solo studio album by Australian singer/songwriter James Reyne released in June 1991. The album was released in America as Any Day Above Ground. The album peaked at number 3 on the ARIA Charts, which remains Reyne's highest charting album. [2]

The album saw Reyne's return to a more electric sound. It features the singles "Slave", "Any Day Above Ground" and "Some People", as well as a new, acoustic rendition of the Australian Crawl song "Reckless."

Review

Tomas Mureika of All Music said on "Electric Digger Dandy Reyne expands his musical boundaries with collaborations with Jim Vallance and Tony Joe White. The result is an invigorated Reyne, who seems to be having a great time winding his voice around gorgeous melodies and intense rants alike. Despite its nutty had-to-be-changed-for-America title, Digger Dandy finds a more introspective experimental Reyne, one content to play the music at a lower level and let his words and stiletto voice speak for itself.".[3]

Track listing

CD/Vinyl (VOZCD2050 / 91785-2)
  1. "Some People" (J. Reyne, J. Vallance) - 4:13
  2. "Slave" (J. Reyne, J. Vallance) - 4:13
  3. "Reckless" (J. Reyne) - 5:19
  4. "Any Day Above Ground" (J. Reyne) - 3:38
  5. "Take a Giant Step" (J. Reyne, S. Hussey) - 5:10
  6. "Company of Strangers" (J. Reyne, S. Hussey) - 4:05
  7. "Black and Blue World" (J. Reyne, B. Goldsmith) - 4:06
  8. "Stood Up" (J. Hiatt) - 4:52
  9. "Outback Woman" (J. Reyne, T. J. White) - 3:38
  10. "Water, Water" (J. Reyne) - 5:40
  11. "Lay Your Weary Head Down" (J. Reyne) - 2:34

Charts

Weekly charts

Chart (1991) Peak
position
Australian Albums (ARIA)[4] 3

Personnel

Guests

References

  1. ""Electric Digger Dandy" by James Reyne". Allmusic. Retrieved 14 February 2016.
  2. "JAMES REYNE - ELECTRIC DIGGER DANDY (ALBUM)". www.australian-charts.com. Retrieved 11 March 2016.
  3. "Any Day About Ground by James Reyne review". www.allmusic.com. Retrieved 11 March 2016.
  4. "Australiancharts.com – James Reyne – Electric Digger Dandy". Hung Medien. Retrieved March 11 2016.
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