Review - Lawrence Woodward
“Red Dog Karma”
independent album
Lawrence
Woodward is not a full-time musician - that he has only turned his talents toward
this medium relatively recently be belied by the people involved in the making
of his 1997 “Red Dog Karma”
independent CD.
Born in London, Lawrence
came to Australia in the 1970s and tried his hand at just about everything that
would feature on a typical country music record: jackaroo, overseer, railway
shunter, traveller. But the people on and behind this album, including Rex (Roy & HG’s The
New Beatles, Bros of Oz)
Goh,
Doc
(The
Angels) Neeson, and producer John (Daryl
Braithwaite, Red Herring) Bee, belie the fact that
this is as much a country music album as these people are normally rock &
roll!
Lawrence now does stunt work for
people like James
(Titanic,
T2)
Cameron,
Jane (The Piano)
Campion, George (Babe) Miller and The
Matrix’s Wacowski Bros, but tracks like The Shearer’s Nightmare, Rage
Rage, Soft Earth Blues and Big Bad Bill would be just as at-home on
a Lee Kernaghan or Adam Brand record
as in a jam session somewhere in Sydney’s beachside east while the movie folk
relax.
An album of contrasts, both musically and
otherwise, Lawrence
Woodward’s independent “Red
Dog Karma” album is quite the achievement