Album: Up All Night by The Waifs (2003)
Genre: Folk
Record Label: Jarrah Records
Format: Album

Description: Sometimes it takes three Australians to make a great American road-trip album. The sound of the open road is there in The Waifs' spacious acoustic sound, with well-placed harmonica and dobro. And it's in the natural twang of sisters Vikki and Donna Simpson's harmonies. "Fisherman's Daughter" sounds like a long-lost country single, complete with reference to a 1962 Valiant. In "Three Down" they roll through Austin and hit 6th Street for cocktails, making it sound like a fine way to pass a sleepless night.

Related Artists: Missy Higgins, Hunters & Collectors, Bernard Fanning, Paul Kelly

Music Scene: Emerged in the 1990s era. Associated with Folk movement.

Tags: Folk, 2000s, Album, Jarrah Records

Additional Context: Available on Discogs marketplace


Sometimes it takes three Australians to make a great American road-trip album. The sound of the open road is there in The Waifs' spacious acoustic sound, with well-placed harmonica and dobro. And it's in the natural twang of sisters Vikki and Donna Simpson's harmonies. "Fisherman's Daughter" sounds like a long-lost country single, complete with reference to a 1962 Valiant. In "Three Down" they roll through Austin and hit 6th Street for cocktails, making it sound like a fine way to pass a sleepless night.

Album: Sink or Swim by The Waifs (2000)
Genre: Singer/Songwriter
Record Label: Jarrah Records
Format: Album

Related Artists: Missy Higgins, Hunters & Collectors, Bernard Fanning, Paul Kelly

Music Scene: Emerged in the 1990s era. Associated with Folk movement.

Tags: Singer/Songwriter, 2000s, Album, Jarrah Records

Additional Context: Available on Discogs marketplace


Album: Shelter Me by The Waifs (1998)
Genre: Folk
Record Label: Jarrah Records
Format: Album

Related Artists: Missy Higgins, Hunters & Collectors, Bernard Fanning, Paul Kelly

Music Scene: Emerged in the 1990s era. Associated with Folk movement.

Tags: Folk, 1990s, Album, Jarrah Records


Album: Ironbark by The Waifs (2017)
Genre: Singer/Songwriter
Record Label: Jarrah Records
Format: Album

Related Artists: Missy Higgins, Hunters & Collectors, Bernard Fanning, Paul Kelly

Music Scene: Emerged in the 1990s era. Associated with Folk movement.

Tags: Singer/Songwriter, 2010s, Album, Jarrah Records


Album: Beautiful You by The Waifs (2015)
Genre: Folk | Style: Blues
Record Label: Jarrah Records
Format: Album

Related Artists: Missy Higgins, Hunters & Collectors, Bernard Fanning, Paul Kelly

Music Scene: Emerged in the 1990s era. Associated with Folk movement.

Tags: Folk, Blues, 2010s, Album, Jarrah Records


Album: Sun Dirt Water by The Waifs (2008)
Genre: Folk
Record Label: Jarrah Records
Format: Album

Description: On their playful, rock-driven fifth studio album, The Waifs take a cue from former tour partner Bob Dylan, going electric with wild abandon. After joining the legendary troubadour on the road in 2003 to support their acclaimed folk-pop collection Up All Night, the beloved Western Australian folk trio let loose on 2007’s rollicking Sun Dirt Water. Guitarist Joshua Cunningham takes on most of the songwriting, injecting the band’s rustic melodies with raucous riffs and bluesy licks via harmonica-soaked anthems (“How Many Miles”), organ-rich stompers (“Stay”) and feel-good country jams (“Eternity”). Meanwhile, sisters Vikki Thorn and Donna Simpson prove they’re natural rockers, lending a heavy dose of soul and seduction—especially on Simpson’s devilish bar-room romper “Sad Sailor Song” and Thorn’s jazzy title track, an earthy ode to everlasting love. Recorded in Nashville, the album gets a boost from notable Music City session musicians. Keys master Reese Wynans bangs hardest on the gospel-touched torch song “Sweetest Dream”, while Jeff Coffin slips in some mood-setting clarinet on the old-timey ukulele lullaby “Feeling Sentimental”, a winking, unplugged ode to nostalgia.

Related Artists: Missy Higgins, Hunters & Collectors, Bernard Fanning, Paul Kelly

Music Scene: Emerged in the 1990s era. Associated with Folk movement.

Tags: Folk, 2000s, Album, Jarrah Records

On their playful, rock-driven fifth studio album, The Waifs take a cue from former tour partner Bob Dylan, going electric with wild abandon. After joining the legendary troubadour on the road in 2003 to support their acclaimed folk-pop collection Up All Night, the beloved Western Australian folk trio let loose on 2007’s rollicking Sun Dirt Water. Guitarist Joshua Cunningham takes on most of the songwriting, injecting the band’s rustic melodies with raucous riffs and bluesy licks via harmonica-soaked anthems (“How Many Miles”), organ-rich stompers (“Stay”) and feel-good country jams (“Eternity”). Meanwhile, sisters Vikki Thorn and Donna Simpson prove they’re natural rockers, lending a heavy dose of soul and seduction—especially on Simpson’s devilish bar-room romper “Sad Sailor Song” and Thorn’s jazzy title track, an earthy ode to everlasting love. Recorded in Nashville, the album gets a boost from notable Music City session musicians. Keys master Reese Wynans bangs hardest on the gospel-touched torch song “Sweetest Dream”, while Jeff Coffin slips in some mood-setting clarinet on the old-timey ukulele lullaby “Feeling Sentimental”, a winking, unplugged ode to nostalgia.

Album: John Dee Holeman & The Waifs Band by The Waifs (2006)
Genre: Folk
Format: Album

Related Artists: Missy Higgins, Hunters & Collectors, Bernard Fanning, Paul Kelly

Music Scene: Emerged in the 1990s era. Associated with Folk movement.

Tags: Folk, 2000s, Album


Album: The Waifs by The Waifs (1996)
Genre: Folk
Record Label: Jarrah Records
Format: Album

Related Artists: Missy Higgins, Hunters & Collectors, Bernard Fanning, Paul Kelly

Music Scene: Emerged in the 1990s era. Associated with Folk movement.

Tags: Folk, 1990s, Album, Jarrah Records


Album: Temptation by The Waifs (2011)
Genre: Folk
Record Label: Jarrah Records
Format: Album

Related Artists: Missy Higgins, Hunters & Collectors, Bernard Fanning, Paul Kelly

Music Scene: Emerged in the 1990s era. Associated with Folk movement.

Tags: Folk, 2010s, Album, Jarrah Records


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