Welcome Stranger (album) explained

Welcome Stranger
Type:	Album
Artist:	The Blackeyed Susans
Cover:	Welcome_Stranger_BES.jpg
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)
Prev Title:	Depends on What You Mean By Love
Prev Year:	1991
Next Title:	All Souls Alive
Next Year:	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

1. "Don’t Call Yourself An Angel" (McComb, Kakulas) – 3:14
2. "Enemy Mine" (McComb, Kakulas) – 4:07
3. "Viva Las Vegas" (Doc Pomus, Mort Shuman) – 5:10
4. "Cripple Creek" (Traditional/Kakulas) – 4:47
5. "Glory Glory" (Kakulas) – 4:03
6. "Anchor Me" (Snarski) – 2:43
7. "Who’s That By The Window?" (Kakulas) – 2:50
8. "Trouble" (Kakulas, Rollinson) – 4:13
9. "Ocean of You" (McComb) – 3:33
10. "Close Watch" (John Cale) – 2:59
11. "Will’s Blues" (Akers) – 3:22
12. "Spanish Is The Loving Tongue" (Traditional) – 2:59
13. "Who’s Loving You" (Robinson) – 3:08
14. "It Hurts Me" (Byers, Daniels)/"Prisoner of Love" (Robin, Columbo, Gaskill) – 3:42
15. "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