Following the demise of the seminal Australian Crawl, lead singer James Reyne continued to chart the musical path he initiated in the last stages of his former band’s career. It was through leaving his homeland that the Melbourne native found the inspirations for his debut disc. After two years of touring the world, Reyne began his solo work in London, sculpting out a sound indebted to the Crawl but with a depth, scope, and edge uniquely his own. The resultant cinematic James Reyne, released in Australia in 1987, was a powerhouse of an album, a claim-staking arrival cry of a new voice in popular music — one that would touch down in rock, country, folk, outback, poetic, and rootsy territory, while still managing to transcend them all. The album produced three Australian Top Ten hits and afforded Reyne a fanatical following culminating in a dynamic tour with Tina Turner. Ironically, it was only after this jaunt with Turner that Reyne’s album was released (to minimal response) in America nearly two years after its initial appearance.
1989 – Hard Reyne, time 43:38
01 – House Of Cards 00:04:16
02 – Rumour 00:03:20
03 – No Such Thing As Love 00:03:51
04 – One More River 00:04:13
05 – Shine On 00:05:25
06 – Harvest Moon 00:04:01
07 – Lamp Of Heaven 00:03:05
08 – Drifting Away (Confusion Of Slow Novas) 00:03:28
09 – Trouble In Paradise 00:03:58
10 – Five Miles Closer To The Sun 00:04:34
11 – Wake Up Dead Man 00:03:27
01 – Some People 00:04:14
02 – Slave 00:04:13
03 – Reckless 00:05:20
04 – Any Day Above Ground 00:03:38
05 – Take A Giant Step 00:05:11
06 – Company Of Strangers 00:04:04
07 – Black and Blue World 00:04:07
08 – Stood Up 00:04:54
09 – Outback Woman 00:03:39
10 – Water, Water 00:05:41
11 – Lay Your Weary Head Down 00:02:35