''The Adventures of The Amazing Revelators'' is the second

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by Australian blues-rock band

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. The album was recorded in four days and released in March 2000. At the

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, the album was nominated for

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losing to ''More Gravy'' by Collard Greens & Gravy. The album was released digitally on 28 April 2003.

Background

In a Head Records press release, it

' new project started in Joe Camilleri's back shed while working on the next

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' album. Camilleri said; "Joe Creighton and James Black came over and I played them some songs I'd been working on and we decided to make another record. Joe had always wanted to do

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's "Beside You" and brought along a new song of his own called "Trust Me". Joined by Nicky Bomba on drums, we went to

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and cut 14 songs in 4 days." Months passed before Camilleri played the songs again, saying "Finally I pulled out the tapes, gave them a spin, rang James and said this stuff is pretty good but we got to do some more recording." In March 2000 the Revelators reunited at Woodstock to cut 6 more sides and finally the CD was completed.

Track listing

; CD track listing

Release history

References

External links

"The Adventures of the Amazing"
at

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