''Today Wonder'' is the fourth solo album by Australian guitarist and songwriter

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. It was recorded in 1990 by Kuepper and drummer Mark Dawson and released on the

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accessed July 3, 2010 The album was re-released in 2002 with eight bonus tracks recorded for a Dutch radio station.

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Five years after the recording, Kuepper said, "I wanted to do something that had a much looser approach. ''Today Wonder'' was about as open as you can get. They were all demos. The album I did in a weekend with Dawson." Kuepper approached many record labels with none showing any interest. "We hawked them around everywhere Given that a couple of the songs on that album have broken me, it's pretty ironic. Record companies just couldn't hear anything."

Reception

The

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review by Ned Raggett awarded the album 4 stars and states "''Today Wonder'' in many ways was the release that helped determine part (if not all) of Ed Kuepper's future work. Specifically, it's the way around close, quiet, but still tense and strong performances... The end result's a beauty of a record".Raggett, Ned

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described the album as, "remarkable for the nature of the songs themselves, as Kuepper plumbed a personal honesty that most singer/songwriters wouldn't dare confront. ''Today Wonder'', in finding new dimensions and textures again, was nothing short or revelatory."

Track listing

:''All compositions by Ed Kuepper except as indicated'' # "Horse Under Water" - 6:04 # "Always the Woman Pays" - 3:13 # "Everything I've Got Belongs to You" - 4:33 # "What You Don't Know" - 4:01 # "I'd Rather Be the Devil" (

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) - 4:24 # "There's Nothing Natural" - 3:45 # "Today Wonder Medley: Today Wonder/Hey Gyp/White Houses" (Kuepper, Donovan Leitch,

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) - 4:32 # "Pretty Mary" - 3:41 # "Eternally Yours" - 5:33 # " If I Were a Carpenter" (

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) - 3:57 # "Intermission" - 0:18 # "Always the Woman Pays" ive- 4:02 Bonus track on CD reissue # "What You Don't Know" ive- 4:32 Bonus track on CD reissue # "Pretty Mary" ive- 4:18 Bonus track on CD reissue # "Today Wonder Medley" ive(Kuepper, Leitch, Burdon) - 4:14 Bonus track on CD reissue # "Horse Under Water" ive- 5:30 Bonus track on CD reissue # "I Am Your Prince/Told Myself" ive- 7:15 Bonus track on CD reissue # "Everything I've Got Belongs to You" ive- 4:32 Bonus track on CD reissue :*Recorded at Electric Avenue Studio, Rozelle, Sydney, Australia (tracks 1-10) and the Netherlands (tracks 11-18).

Personnel

vocals Singing is the act of creating musical sounds with the voice. A person who sings is called a singer, artist or vocalist (in jazz and/or popular music). Singers perform music (arias, recitatives, songs, etc.) that can be sung with or witho ...

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, elastic guitar *Mark Dawson -

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References

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