Kirkpatrick,Anne Annethology: Very Best Of CD

Almost forty years after cutting a first, tentative 'solo' single and three dozen years after crafting an acclaimed debut album, Anne Kirkpatrick, has painstakingly drawn together, as Annethology, the essence of her impressive and admirable body of work - a long-awaited 'Best Of' ranging across a wide musical terrain. Selected from her 13 album releases from 1974 through to 2010. a recording artist since the age of 12 Anne, daughter of revered Australian country music pioneers Slim Dusty and Joy McKean, staked her claim early as a woman of distinctive voice. Her albums, beginning with 1974's earthy Down Home and proceeding through to what music historian Glenn A. Baker described as the "creatively courageous" Showman's Daughter album (of recent times) have demonstrated a gradual, comfortable evolution and her own light on the hill to aspiring female country performers. There's been myriad accolades along her way - six Golden Guitars, a couple of Mo Awards and, honoring Out of the Blue as 'Best Country album', a coveted ARIA Award (in a year when she edged out the top male stars of the day - Keith Urban, James Blundell, Graeme Connors and John Williamson). Early this year she became the 39th artist (since the great Tex Morton in 1976) to have been listed on the Australasian Country 'Music Roll of Renown'. with this new Annethology release, one is held in thrall by the artistry of a woman with an innate understanding of the essential qualities which can render truly great country music emotionally overwhelming.

1. Grievous Angel 2. Here We Are (Duet with Bill Chambers) 3. Born for the Night Life 4. Honky Tonk Girl 5. Travellin' Still... Always Will 6. Out of the Blue 7. A Bottle of Wine and Patsy Cline 8. Feel a Whole Lot Better 9. You Ain't Going Nowhere (Live, Duet with Troy Cassar-Daley) 10. Sin City (Live) 11. I'm Thinking Tonight of My Blue Eyes 12. Come Back Again 13. You Can Believe in Me 14. Many Mothers 15. Old Sunlander Van 16. Bury Me Beneath the Willow (Live) 17. Eastbound Train 18. All He Did Was Tell Me Lies 19. Still Coming Down from You 20. Safe in the Arms of Love 21. Peppermint Cradle 22. Showman's Daughter 23. Last Drive