Welcome Home
1993 · Larrikin LRF 282 · Australia
- Artist
- Eric Bogle
- Title
- Welcome Home
- Release
- Mirrors
- Year
- 1993
- Label
- Larrikin # LRF 282
- Format
- CD · Album
- Language
- English
- Country
- Australia
- Songwriter
- Eric Bogle
- Genre
- Folk · Contemporary Folk
- Primary theme
- Post-War
Annotation — Australian & New Zealand Songs
Eric Bogle, a contemporary folk artist born in Scotland, who then moved permanently to Australia in 1969. He is especially well-known as the composer of "And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda", an anti-war track, which looked back at the Australian war experience in the Gallipoli campaign in 1915 (World War One), while making a contemporary note about the younger generation, in reference to the Vietnam War. He also wrote and released the Vietnam War song "The War Correspondent", which featured on the 1980 album Now I'm Easy. On this album featured the song "Welcome Home" (Larrikin Records # LRF 282), which paid tribute to Vietnam War veterans, considered to have been neglected in Australian society and culture - the Australian Vietnam Forces National Memorial was only dedicated on 3 October 1992, commemorating the 60,000+ Australians who served in Vietnam, located on Anzac Parade, in Canberra. Bogle's other Vietnam songs are strongly anti-war, but this one is focused on the impact of war on soldiers and the home front, arguing that "when a nation goes to war, everyone's a casualty". He also returned to the theme of "And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda", referencing an ANZAC…
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
Annotation — European Songs
Eric Bogle, a contemporary folk artist born in Scotland, who then moved permanently to Australia in 1969. He is especially well-known as the composer of "And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda", an anti-war track, which looked back at the Australian war experience in the Gallipoli campaign in 1915 (World War One), while making a contemporary note about the younger generation, in reference to the Vietnam War. He also wrote and released the Vietnam War song "The War Correspondent", which featured on the 1980 album Now I'm Easy.. On this album featured the song "Welcome Home" (Larrikin Records # LRF 282), which paid tribute to Vietnam War veterans, considered to have been neglected in Australian society and culture - the Australian Vietnam Forces National Memorial was only dedicated on 3 October 1992, commemorating the 60,000+ Australians who served in Vietnam, located on Anzac Parade, in Canberra. Bogle's other Vietnam songs are strongly anti-war, but this one is focused on the impact of war on soldiers and the home front, arguing that "when a nation goes to war, everyone's a casualty". He also returned to the theme of "And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda", referencing an ANZAC…
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
Notes
Written around the 1992 dedication of the Australian Vietnam Forces National Memorial, Canberra.
About the artist
Eric Bogle - contemporary folk singer-songwriter born 23 September 1944 in Peebles, Scotland; settled in Australia in 1969; writer of "And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda".
Themes
Vet · Home Front Perspective · Mistreatment of Vet · Welcome Home Parade · ANZUS