“Bow River” by Cold Chisel

"Bow River" is Ian Moss's song, words and music, and it turned up on Circus Animals, the fourth album from Australia's Cold Chisel, released on 8 March 1982. The band produced it themselves, with Mark Opitz and Dave Walsh engineering, and the credits show the lineup at work: Moss on guitar, Don Walker on piano, Phil Small on bass and Steve Prestwich on drums.

The album was cut and mixed in Sydney, at Paradise Studios and EMI Studios 301, between September and December 1981, and it was a deliberate swerve. Coming off the pop success of East, the band, and Walker above all by singer Barnes's account, rebelled against the formula that had worked, and many of the new songs came dressed in odd, experimental arrangements.

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