''The Songs of Charcoal Lane'' is the tenth

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by Australian singer songwriter

Archie Roach Archibald William Roach (8 January 1956 – 30 July 2022) was an Australian singer, songwriter and Aboriginal Australian, Aboriginal activist. Often referred to as "Uncle Archie", Roach was a Gunditjmara and Western Bundjalung people, Bundjalu ...

. The album is a re-recording and 30th anniversary celebration of Roach's debut studio album, ''

Charcoal Lane ''Charcoal Lane'' is the debut studio album by Australian singer song writer Archie Roach, released in 1990. Name From the 1960s through to the 1980s, the inner-city Melbourne suburb of Fitzroy was a meeting place for Aboriginal people who had l ...

''. ''The Songs of Charcoal Lane'' album was recorded with Stephen Magnusson and

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, along with recording engineer Hadyn Buxton. It was announced on 9 October 2020, alongside the video of the new version of 'Took The Children Away'. ''The Songs of Charcoal Lane'' was released in November 2020. In a press statement, Roach said the relaxed recording environment gave the new album "an intimacy nda closeness". Roach said "I have been so much more relaxed sitting here at my kitchen table with a cup of tea, looking out at my yard, recording the songs, maybe doing two to three takes. When we listen back to the recordings you can sense that there's a different feel, a more relaxed approach to the songs, it's more earthy." At the

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, the album won the

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Songs of Charcoal Lane 2020 albums Archie Roach albums ARIA Award-winning albums