John Schumann & The Vagabond Crew - The Corrugated Highway Tour

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Back in March 1983, Redgum recorded one of its most successful albums, live at Rose, Shamrock and Thistle in Rozelle, Sydney. "Caught in the Act" became a benchmark for live albums, capturing the quintessentially Australian Redgum songs and highlighting John Schumann as one of the best frontmen in the country.

It's 2025. Sold-out performances of "The Redgum Years" across Australia have whipped up a fair bit of demand for a live record.

Recorded over 2 nights in Melbourne in August, John and the boys are setting out on "The Corrugated Highway Tour", 8 concerts in October to feature the live album of the same name.

Updated lyrics reflect the comprehensively mad world we find ourselves in.

"Songs to make you laugh, some to make you cry, songs to make you think. Unlike some others, we're not tiptoeing around the genocide in Gaza. We were also particularly angry about what happened to the ATO whistleblower, Richard Boyle. He gets a mention - as does that towering intellect, Donald Trump," said John Schumann.

John Schumann and the Vagabond Crew concerts are marked by the superb musicianship and vocal harmonies of what is clearly a bunch of mates who love playing together.

"Some mates get together and go away fishing, some go on golfing trips: we go away together and we play music."

And then there's John Schumann himself, the dry-humoured artist/intellectual with an acerbic tongue, an unerring popular touch and a campfire voice.

The album – "Corrugated Highway – the Redgum Years Live"

"Corrugated Highway" is almost 2 hours of music and banter. Very much in the tradition of Redgum's "Caught in the Act", this album rattles and hums with memories of highways and dirt roads criss-crossing an Australia glazed hard by the blistering Australian heat.

"Redgum's songs and concerts reflected, sometimes far too clearly, a country wrestling with itself and this record is a pretty fair map of those years," said John Schumann.

"As we revive these songs - funny, the furious, the compassionate - it's pretty clear to us that Australia is still wrestling with itself. Listening to them today, these songs remind us that our history isn't tidy and the corrugated road winding into the sunset is always hard-travelled."

Statement - No Streaming

We decided that we're not going to put this album up on the streaming services in the foreseeable future. Maybe not ever. This record is a serious investment in our time and our resources. The streaming business model is simply unfair; .003 cents per stream is absolutely outrageous - a blatant rip-off. We're confident that our fans will support the record by buying a double CD or double vinyl at gigs or through what will be our dedicated website. The people who own Spotify and the other streaming services can buy their own yachts.

Full tour dates and tickets HERE

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