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Release Date
1 January 1983
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Length
15 tracks
A live recording released in 1983 when Redgum was one of the biggest crowd-pulling bands on the Australian scene. 'Caught in the Act' produced the classic song 'I was only Nineteen (A Walk in the Light Green) which reached #1 and stayed in the top 40 for four months. The song precipitated a Royal Commission into the use and effects of chemical agents in the Vietnam War by the Australian military.
Recorded live at the Rose, Shamrock and Thistle, Rozelle, N.S.W.
Producer: Trevor Lucas (from UK folk group Fairport Convention)
Engineer: Jim Barton mixed at AAV Studios, Melbourne
Musicians:
Verity Truman, flute, tin whistle, vocals;
John Schumann, guitar, vocals;
Michael Atkinson, guitar, mandolin, piano, vocals;
Hugh McDonald, violin, vocals
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