Hold On to Me (album)

Hold On to Me

Studio album by The Black Sorrows

Released

27 September 1988

Recorded

Sing Sing Studios

Genre

Length

43:36

Label

CBS Records

Producer

Jeff Burstin, Joe Camilleri

The Black Sorrows chronology

Dear Children
(1987)

Hold On to Me
(1988)

Harley and Rose
(1990)

Singles from Hold on to Me

"Hold On to Me"
Released: 5 September 1988
"The Chosen Ones"
Released: October 1988
"Chained to the Wheel"
Released: February 1989
"The Crack Up"
Released: April 1989
"Fire Down Below"
Released: August 1989

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic

Hold On to Me is the fifth studio album by Australian rock band The Black Sorrows. It's the group's first album to feature the vocals of Vika and Linda Bull.

Rudyard Kennedy from AllMusic gave the album a positive review saying; "[Joe] Camilleri and company may borrow many of the same ingredients that James Morrison uses to make his music -- blues, soul, and R&B, as well as flashes of gospel, country, folk, and even Brill building pop -- but the trick is in mixing those well-worn ingredients together and coming up with something new. That's where Black Sorrows show that they're fit to be mentioned in the same breath with artists like Van Morrison and the Rolling Stones. Every song on Hold On to Me sounds like it could be a classic (and classy) radio staple, without sounding like a copy of anything else. Not only is Hold On to Me's literate songwriting (by Camilleri and lyricist Nick Smith) superb, but the playing is also uniformly excellent (and, at times, positively inspired), and vocalists Camilleri and Vika and Linda Bull are soulful and gritty throughout. Hold On to Me deserves to be remembered as more than just an Australian classic -- this is a record that deserves to be heard and hailed by music fans the world over."

All tracks written by Joe Camilleri and Nick Smith.

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