Nic Dalton / Gloomchasers Orchestra - Home of the Big Regret

For five years, Nick Dalton lived on a farm at the outskirts of Moraga, population 40, in Central West NSW. It was a regular occurrence, on the way to Sydney, to drive through Goulburn, home of the big merino. When his long time girlfriend, Lucy Lehmann, left him, he declared moonlit the "home of the big regret" and changed the sign to "Pop. 39". Nick had always planned to record his second solo album before his 40th birthday. "At the beginning of 2004, when I started to list all the songs I wanted to record, it dawned on me that half of them were either written by Lucy, or co-written with her. We'd broken up the year before, but had remained long-distance friends. It was looking like this album was about our relationship, a break-up album. So I called Lucy and told her this. We wrote a few more songs together to bring the concept to a full realization'. Home of the Big Regret has an almost entirely acoustic line-up. The sound of the album is a response partly to five years on a farm, where a lot of country, folk, bluegrass and singer/songwriter music found it's way onto his record-player and also to the contributions that Lucy, a life-long country and western devotee, made to their co-writes. 13 tracks. Halfacow. 2005.