Welcome Stranger (Blackeyed Susans album)

Infobox Album
Name = Welcome Stranger
Type = Album
Artist = The Blackeyed Susans


Released = August, 1992
Recorded = Perth – March, 1989
Sydney – March, 1991
London – 1990
Genre = Rock / Folk rock
Length = 54:42
Label = Waterfront Records
Producer = James Hewgill and The Blackeyed Susans (1-4)
Phillip Kakulas and The Blackeyed Susans (5-8 & 15)
David McComb (9-14)
Reviews =
*Allmusic [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:gbfuxqedldte link]
Last album =
This album = "Welcome Stranger"
(1992)
Next album = "All Souls Alive"
(1993)

"Welcome Stranger" is the debut studio album by The Blackeyed Susans. Released in August, 1992, the album is a compilation of their first three EPs – "Some Births Are Worse Than Murders", "Anchor Me" and "…Depends On What You Mean By Love" – with the addition of three tracks recorded at the same time as the material released on those EPs.

Track listing

# Don’t Call Yourself An Angel (McComb/Kakulas) – 3:14
# Enemy Mine (McComb/Kakulas) – 4:07
# Viva Las Vegas (Pomus/Shuman) – 5:10
# Cripple Creek (Traditional/Kakulas) – 4:47
# Glory Glory (Kakulas) – 4:03
# Anchor Me (Snarski) – 2:43
# Who’s That By The Window? (Kakulas) – 2:50
# Trouble (Kakulas/Rollinson) – 4:13
# Ocean Of You (McComb) – 3:33
# Close Watch (Cale) – 2:59
# Will’s Blues (Akers) – 3:22
# Spanish Is The Loving Tongue (Traditional) – 2:59
# Who’s Loving You (Robinson) – 3:08
# It Hurts Me (Byers/Daniels)/Prisoner Of Love (Robin/Columbo/Gaskill) – 3:42
# In The Pines (McComb) – 3:44

Personnel

Tracks 1–4

* David McComb – vocals, guitar, percussion
* Rob Snarski – vocals, guitar
* Phil Kakulas – double bass, electric bass, bazouki, guitar, backing vocals, percussion
* Alsy MacDonald – drums, percussion
* Ross Bolleter – hammond organ, piano, piano organ
* (William Akers – backing vocals)

Tracks 5–8 and 15

* Rob Snarski – vocals, acoustic guitar
* Kathryn Wemyss – vocals, trumpet, castanets
* Phillip Kakulas – double bass
* Timothy Rollinson – electric guitar
* Kenny Davis Junior – piano, piano accordion
* James Cruikshank – organ
* (Graham Lee – pedal steel)
* (Mark Dawson – percussion)

Tracks 9–14

* Rob Snarski – vocals
* Kenny Davis Junior – keyboards, piano accordion, samples
* David McComb – keyboards, bass, electric and acoustic guitars, backing vocals
* (Joanne Alach – backing vocals)