''Émigré'' is the debut solo studio album by Australian singer-songwriter

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released by rooArt in Australia in November 1990. It was produced by

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and reached No. 11 on the Australian Albums Chart. It yielded three singles: " Token Angels", "

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". Matthews won the

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at the ARIA Music Awards of 1991.

Background

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entry. Retrieved 6 November 2010. She went into the studio with producer

(ex-Beach Boys, Rutles) to record her debut solo album, ''Émigré''. Her session musicians included Absent Friends' members Garry Gary Beers (also in

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) on bass guitar, Andrew Duffield on keyboards, Sean Kelly on guitar, Roger Mason on keyboards, James Valentine on saxophone, and Mick King on guitar. She also enlisted Tim Finn (

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) and Peter Blakeley on backing vocals. The album peaked at No. 11 on the

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Albums Charts. It spawned the hit singles " Token Angels" (No. 18 in November 1990), Bobby Womack's "Woman's Gotta Have It" (No. 34 in February 1991) and "

" (No. 14 in June). Matthews won 'Best Female Artist' and 'Breakthrough Artist – Single' ("Token Angels") at the ARIA Music Awards of 1991. Matthews was also voted 'Best Female Singer' in the 1990 Australian ''

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'' readers poll. For touring in support of the album, Matthews used Paul Abrahams on bass guitar, Amanda Brown on oboe, violin (ex-

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), King on guitar, Lisa Maxwell on backing vocals, Mark Meyer on drums (Mark Gillespie Band, Moving Pictures), Mark O'Connor on keyboards and Valentine on saxophone. In October 1991, she issued a live mini-album ''The Way It Has to Be'' and toured as support to US R&B group,

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. At the end of 1991, Matthews recorded her second full-length album ''

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'', which was produced by

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and released in late 1992.

Track listing

All songwriters as listed. Note: requires user to enter song title, e.g. Token Angels #" Token Angels" ( Roger Mason) – 4:53 #"As We Speak" (Robbie James, Paul Abrahams) – 4:17 #"Won't Let Me Be (Georgia's Song)" ( James Valentine,

, Andrew Duffield) – 5:01 #"Taking My Heart Around" (Danny Peck) – 4:35 #"Square Moon" (Robbie James, Geoff Stapleton, K Govett) – 3:53 #"

" (

Bobby Womack Robert Dwayne Womack (; March 4, 1944 – June 27, 2014) was an American singer, songwriter, musician, and record producer. Starting in the early 1950s as the lead singer of his family musical group the Valentinos and as Sam Cooke's backing guit ...

) – 4:19 #"State of Mind" (J Williams, B Cook) – 4:25 #"Doomsday Lullaby" (Peck) – 4:38 #"Goin' Back to My Roots" (Lamont Dozier) – 6:04 #"Long Way from Home" (Matthews) – 3:12 #"

" (J Friedman, C Curtis) – 3:29 Note, track 10 "Long Way from Home" appears to be a cover of the Sandy Denny song "The Music Weaver" but Denny is not credited.

Personnel

– vocals * Peter Blakeley – backing vocals * Garry Gary Beers – bass guitar * Andrew Duffield – keyboards * Tim Finn – backing vocals * Sean Kelly – guitar * Mick King – guitar * Robbie James – guitar * Mark O'Connor – keyboards * Roger Mason – keyboards * James Valentine – saxophone

Charts

Certifications

References

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