Redneck Wonderland is an album by Midnight Oil

Midnight Oil

Midnight Oil , were an Australian rock band from Sydney originally performing as Farm from 1972 with drummer Rob Hirst, bass guitarist Andrew James and keyboard player/lead guitarist Jim Moginie...

 that was released in 1998 under the Columbia Records

Columbia Records

Columbia Records is an American record label, owned by Japan's Sony Music Entertainment, operating under the Columbia Music Group with Aware Records. It was founded in 1888, evolving from an earlier enterprise, the American Graphophone Company — successor to the Volta Graphophone Company...

 label. The title of the album was inspired by a wall graffiti

Graffiti

Graffiti is the name for images or lettering scratched, scrawled, painted or marked in any manner on property....

, a picture of which can be seen in the promotional Oil Rag

Oil Rag

The Oil Rags were promotional newspapers issued by the Australian rock band Midnight Oil along with releases of some of their studio albums. There were six volumes of the Oil Rag:* Vol. I for background information on the band...

 Vol. VI issued along with album release.

Reception

Track listing

Writing credits sourced from APRA WebWorks search engine, November 2009.

Song notes

• "Concrete" originally performed as "Free My Soul;" known to be played on 20,000 Watt R.S.L.
  20,000 Watt R.S.L.
  20,000 Watt R.S.L. is a compilation album by Australian rock band Midnight Oil released in October 1997 on their own label Sprint Music. The word "Collection" appears on the front of the CD along the hinge in the same type face as the title and the name of the band and may have been intended as...
  
  tour.
• "Cemetery in My Mind" known to be played on 20,000 Watt R.S.L. tour.
• "Comfortable Place on the Couch" originally performed as "Haulaway;" known to be played on 20,000 Watt R.S.L. tour.
• "Safety Chain Blues" originally performed as "Warm Babies;" known to be played on 20,000 Watt R.S.L. tour.
• "Return to Sender", "The Great Gibber Plain", "Seeing is Believing" and "Drop in the Ocean" may not have been performed live.
• "Blot" known to be played on 20,000 Watt R.S.L. tour. (video of 22 November 1997 performance)
• "White Skin Black Heart" & "What Goes On" both first released on 20,000 Watt R.S.L.; known to be played on 20,000 Watt R.S.L. tour.

The tour

The tour is noted for the use of a wheel featuring the titles of 64 Midnight Oil tracks. Most tracks from Redneck Wonderland were not played after the tour ended; the title track was generally the only song played, often as the opening track to shows on the Capricornia

Capricornia (album)

Capricornia is an album by Midnight Oil that was released in 2002 under the Sony Music label in Australia, and the Liquid 8 record label internationally...

tour. The track was later placed elsewhere in the set list; "Concrete" and "Comfortable Place on the Couch" occasionally reappeared.

Midnight Oil

• Jim Moginie
  Jim Moginie
  James "Jim" Moginie is an Australian musician. He is best known for his work with Midnight Oil, of which he was a founding member, guitarist, keyboardist and leading songwriter...
  
  : Guitar, Keyboards, Synthesizer, Vocals
• Martin Rotsey
  Martin Rotsey
  Martin Rotsey is an Australian guitarist, and was a member of the rock band Midnight Oil from 1977 until the band's dissolution in 2002.In 2006, he joined fellow Midnight Oil member Rob Hirst's projects Ghostwriters and The Angry Tradesmen...
  
  : Guitar
• Bones Hillman
  Bones Hillman
  Bones Hillman is a New Zealand musician. He played bass guitar in his first band The Masochists, an early New Zealand punk act, formed with friends from the Auckland suburb of Avondale . In late 1977 he joined the Suburban Reptiles and appeared on their first single, "Megaton"...
  
  : Bass, Vocals
• Rob Hirst
  Rob Hirst
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  : Drums, Vocals
• Peter Garrett
  Peter Garrett
  Peter Robert Garrett, AM, MP , is an Australian musician, environmentalist, activist and politician.Garrett was lead singer of the Australian rock band Midnight Oil from 1973 until its disbanding in 2002...
  
  : Lead Vocals

Additional musicians

• Jeremy Smith
  Jeremy Smith (musician)
  Jeremy Smith is a Melbourne-based musician; he was a founding member of Hunters & Collectors on French horn, guitars, keyboards, programming, and backing vocals...
  
   (of H&C): French Horn
• Helen Mountford: Cello
• Hope Csutoros: Violin

External links

• Midnight Oil