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Faithful Satellite is the seventeenth studio album Australian blues rock band, The Black Sorrows. The album was released on CD and digital download on 16 September 2016, with a 500-copy limited edition 12" double vinyl to be released on 30 September 2016. The vinyl will include eight tracks not on the CD/DD versions.

Reception

Jeff Jenkins from Stack Magazine said "Faithful Satellite traverses bluegrass, blues, rockabilly, reggae, rock, gospel and soul. And props to Camilleri’s long-time lyricist Nick Smith, who creates vivid images: “And that cold grey moon will be rising soon to watch over me … as we roll into the night, with our faithful satellite.” Camilleri delivers the words with a vitality that singers a third his age would love to have. “It’s the last time I’ll trudge through the streets of this town,” he declares in the record’s final track, "Into Twilight", before adding: “I ain’t sayin’ farewell.” Of course he’s not. He’ll never stop. He can’t. The music is in him."[1]

Paul Cashmere from Noise11 said the album is a ‘masterpiece’ adding "The Faithful Satellite beauty is in its diversity with rock to jazz to bluegrass to country woven through the release, at times often reminding long-time Camilleri fans of the various eras of Black Sorrows music across the last 30 years." [2]

Track listing

Vinyl
Side A
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Cold Grey Moon"Joe Camilleri, Nick Smith5:28
2."Raise Your Hands"Camilleri,Smith3:13
3."You Were Never Mine"Camilleri, Smith4:45
4."Fix My Bail"Camilleri, Smith3:50
5."Until the Rain Begins to Fall"Camilleri, Smith 
Side B
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."It Ain't Ever Gonna Happen"Camilleri, Smith4:01
2."I Love You Anyhow"Camilleri, Smith3:29
3."Winter Rose"Camilleri, Smith4:29
4."How Could You Leave Me"Camilleri, Smith 
5."Into Twilight"Camilleri, Smith3:41
Side C
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Caroline"Camilleri, Smith3:50
2."Love is on its Way"Camilleri, Smith5:33
3."Land of the Dead"Camilleri, Smith3:30
4."Beat Nightmare"Camilleri, Smith4:36
5."Diamonds and Furs"Camilleri, Smith 
Side D
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Redemption Blues"Camilleri, Smith 
2."Out of Your Mind"Camilleri, Smith 
3."Separation Blues"Camilleri, Smith 
4."It's Your Fault (I Can't Get Back to Sleep)"Camilleri, Smith 
5."Nobody's Fool"Camilleri, Smith 
Digital download
  1. "I Love You Anyhow"
  2. "Raise Your Hands"
  3. "It Ain't Ever Gonna Happen"
  4. "Land of the Dead"
  5. "Cold Grey Moon"
  6. "Fix My Bail"
  7. "Carolina"
  8. "You Were Never Mine"
  9. "Winter Rose"
  10. "Love Is On Its Way"
  11. "Beat Nightmare"
  12. "Into Twilight"

Weekly charts

Chart (2016) Rank
Australian (ARIA) Jazz and Blues Chart 2

Faithful Satellite Tour

The group toured the album across Australia throughout the second half of 2016.[3]

Personnel

The Black Sorrows

Release history

Region Date Format Label Catalogue
Australia 16 September 2016[5][6] Digital download, CD Head Records HEAD230
30 September 2016[7] Vinyl HEAD230V

References

  1. ^ "Review: The Black Sorrows, 'Faithful Satellite'". Stack Magazine. 22 September 2016. Retrieved 25 September 2016.
  2. ^ ((cite web|url=The Black Sorrows – It Ain’t Ever Gonna Happen|publisher=Noise11|date=6 November 2016|accessdate=4 January 2017]]
  3. ^ "The Black Sorrow to release Faithful Satellite". 8 September 2016. Retrieved 8 September 2016.
  4. ^ "No Sadness as The Black Sorrows rock on". Port News. Retrieved 7 September 2016.
  5. ^ "Faithful Satellite DD". iTunes Australia. Retrieved 8 September 2016.
  6. ^ "The Black Sorrows Faithful Satelitte CD". JBHiFi. Retrieved 7 September 2016.
  7. ^ "Faithful Satellite". The Black Sorrows. Retrieved 8 September 2016.
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