If You Don't Fight You Lose

by Redgum

If You Don't Fight You Lose cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 1 January 1978
  • Label: Larrikin
  • Country: Australia
  • Length: 37:24
  • Community rating: 3.85/5 from 1 rating

Album Notes & Community Reviews

The Adelaide band's debut was recorded at Lucky Larry's Lepertone Studios in South Australia and produced by Mark Boath, Chris Gunn and the band themselves, its title lifted from a line in their song 'Killing Floor'. The record established Redgum's plainspoken, union-hall folk rock and began their run as Australia's defining political folk act.

Genres

Descriptors: political, protest, storytelling, folk, male-vocals

Tracklist

  1. One More Boring Night In Adelaide (3:06)
  2. Carrington Cabaret (3:23)
  3. Critique In G (2:14)
  4. Beaumont Rag (2:29)
  5. Peter The Cabby (2:54)
  6. H.M.A.S. Australia (4:39)
  7. Raggin' (1:47)
  8. So Goodbye (5:00)
  9. Poor Ned (2:46)
  10. Killing Floor (3:29)
  11. Letter To B.J (3:10)
  12. Servin' USA (2:23)

Credits

  • John Schumann - performer [redgum], lead vocals, guitar
  • Verity Truman - performer [redgum], vocals, flute, tin whistle
  • Michael Atkinson - performer [redgum], vocals, guitar, mandolin, electric guitar, piano
  • Chris Timms - performer [redgum], vocals, violin
  • Anne Newmarch - cover, photography by [photographs]
  • Mark Boath - engineer, producer
  • George Aldridge - design [painting and cover]
  • Trevor Lucas - lyrics by
  • Chuck Berry - music by
  • Chris Gunn - producer

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