Moonshine (2019 Reissue Edition)
This was the final album in the ‘trilogy’ of solo albums I made for Bootleg Records before eventually moving to LA and signing with Capitol Records. I was really into country-rock by then and I still love Fire At Shepards Flat and Spring Hill County Breakdown from this album. I didn’t know Shepards Flat was really a place when I wrote it. About a year after the album came out I was playing near there and a couple came up to me after the show and thanked me for writing the song about their town and its tragedy. Imagine my surprise! In the mid 2000s I had a little farm in central Victoria, not too far from Shepards Flat.
The hit from Moonshine was Let Go which has turned out to be the most recorded out of all of my songs. Some 70 times around the world; quite a number, for some reason, in South Africa. Other artists include Glen Campbell, Dobie Gray and Cilla Black.
