The final Oils album , it was partly inspired by the book Capricornia by Xavier Herbert, a fictional tale set in the early days of white settlement in Australia. It reached the top on the Australian Kent Music Report Albums Chart. The album was later distributed by CBS Records and issued as a CD.
ARIA albums charts , top in Sweden and Switzerlan Top on Billboard 20 and top thirty in the UK albums chart. The title of the album was inspired by a wall graffiti, a picture of which can be seen in the promotional Oil Rag Vol. VI issued along with album release.
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It is renowned (in Australia at least) for its politically fuelled and pro-environmental songs. Annie Haslam of RenaissanceSongwriter Interviews. The 5-octave voice of the classical rock band Renaissance, Annie is big on creative expression. Prime Minister John Howard had triggered controversy that year with his refusal to embrace symbolic reconciliation and apologise to Indigenous Australians and members of the Stolen Generations.