Show 165
Meet Shane O'Mara, the Mr Everywhere of Aussie music.
I'll Be Your Lover Now - Paul Kelly, a song he released in 1998 as a single, or more of an EP, with four tracks with the feature being Kelly's Christmas staple How To Make Gravy. The song reappears on a single in 1998 as I'll Be Your Lover, the word "Now" omitted from the title, and also on the 1998 album Words & Music. The guitar players in Kelly's band during this period are Spencer Jones and Shane O'Mara.
Your House Is Falling - Stephen Cummings, from his 1988 album A New Kind of Blue. Shane O'Mara played guitars and co-produced the album with Cummings.
Do It Again - Tim Rogers and the Temperance Union, the song is on their album Dirty Ron, which they made in 2005. Along with playing guitar in the band, O'Mara produced the record and recorded it in his own studio, Yikesville Studio.
Shane and Rebecca
Falling Star - Rebecca's Empire, from the 1996 album Way Of All Things. Singer Rebecca Barnard and Shane O'Mara have been partners in many adventures over the years. O'Mara: guitars and production.
Such A Bore - from Rebecca Barnard's 2006 solo album Fortified. O'Mara: guitars, co-production with Barnard.
From the vault
Three songs by Chris Wilson from his 1992 album Landlocked:
- The Big One
- World Keeps Moving Sideways
- Hard LandOne of Shane O'Mara's most enduring musical partnerships was with the late great singer-songwriter Chris Wilson. O'Mara: guitars, co-production with Wilson.
Produced and/or engineered, guitar playing, might have made the tea
The Day I Lost You - Suzannah Espie, from her 2015 album Mother's Not Feeling Herself Today.
So Much Said - Pony Face, from their album Deja Vu, a 2018 release.
When The Flood Comes - the Audreys, the title track of their 2008 album.
It's his band
The Honeyeater - The Silversound, it was on their 2023 EP FuzzBox Girl.
Sylvie - Shane O'Mara doing the guitar work and Jac Tonks singing, and featuring songs by renowned Scottish musician Bert Jansch, on their new album Sorrow Hides The Longing To Be Free, new as in it came out in March.
Dom Mariani and the Majestic Kelp start us off, move us along, and tell us when we're done.
