A Thousand Suns (Russell Morris album) explained

A Thousand Suns
Type:	studio
Artist:	Russell Morris
Cover:	A_Thousand_Suns_by_Russell_Morris.jpg
Genre:	Blues rock
Length:	52:03
Label:	Festival
Producer:	Mark Moffatt
Prev Title:	Almost Frantic
Prev Year:	1981
Next Title:	Off the Shelf
Next Year:	2002

A Thousand Suns is a studio album by Australian singer songwriter Russell Morris. It was released in November 1991 and is his first album on the ARIA Chart, at number 98.Four singles were released from the album, including a remix of Morris' 1969 number-one single, "The Real Thing".

Reception

Bevan Hannan of The Canberra Times described A Thousand Suns, "[he is] writing prodigiously with aim of launching a revival... [it] is in the damage control category – you can slip it into your stereo and play in the background without offending any tastes."^[1] Australian musicologist Ian McFarlane observed, "During the early 1990s there was something of a [Morris] revival... [he] issued a new album... [which] boasted a contemporary studio sheen and featured guest musicians."^[2]

Track listing

1. "A Thousand Suns" (Russell Morris, Chong Lim) – 5:00^[3]
2. "Tartan Lines" (Morris, Lim) – 4:19
3. "Stay with You" (Morris) – 4:20
4. "Child Inside" (Lim, Morris) – 5:00
5. "New Dawn"(Lim, Morris) – 5:03
6. "Jungle at Night" (Tibor Jopiosh, Morris) – 4:29
7. "Between the Waves" (Lim, Morris) – 4:14
8. "The Bigger They Come" (Lim, Morris) – 4:59
9. "Steal You Away" (David Briggs, Morris, Marshall Parker) – 3:52
10. "Over Excited" (Lim, Morris) – 4:27
11. "The Real Thing" (1990 Mix) (John B Young) – 6:28
12. "Stay with You" (Morris) (A-Side Single) (bonus track)
13. "Turn to Stone" (Morris) (B-Side Single) (bonus track)
14. "This Bird Has Flown" (demo version) (bonus track)

Credits

• Russell Morris – guitar, vocals
• Chong Lim – keyboards
• Graham Thompson, Ian Belton, Jim Landers – bass guitar
• Mark Punch, Mark Moffatt, Ben Butler, Rex Goh – guitar
• Ricky Fataar – drums, percussion
• Andrew Thompson – saxophone
• Venetta Fields, Mark Williams, Mark Punch, Shauna Jensen, Kevin Bennett, Taya Francis – backing vocals

^[4]

Charts

Chart performance for A Thousand Suns! Chart (1991)! Peak
position

Australian Albums (ARIA)^[5]	98

Notes and References

1. News: Morris on his way up out of limbo . . 66 . 20,731 . 16 January 1992 . 22 December 2021 . 15 . .
2. Book: McFarlane, Ian . Ian McFarlane . Jenkins, Jeff (Foreword) . . Encyclopedia entry for 'Russell Morris' . 2017 . . Third Stone Press . 2nd . 331–333 . 978-0-9953856-0-3 .
3. Web site: APRA AMCOS (Australasian Performing Right Association, Australasian Mechanical Copyright Owners Society) . 'A Thousand Suns' at APRA search engine . 22 December 2021 .
4. Web site: Russell Morris "A Thousand Suns" 1991. Rock on Vinyl. 2 July 2016.
5. Web site: ARIA Report Week Commencing ~ 11 February 2013 ~ Issue #1198. https://webarchive.nla.gov.au/awa/20130219032800/http://pandora.nla.gov.au/pan/23790/20130219-1428/Issue1198.pdf. dead. 2013-02-19. webarchive.nla.gov.au/. 11 February 2013. 17 May 2016.