All of The Chaps' CD releases are available for purchase directly from us by emailing your request to info(at)thechaps.com - replace the (at) with @.
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For our fans in the US, CD's can be purchased from CD Baby where you can also preview all the tracks. "Don't Worry 'Bout Your Age" will be available at CD Baby soon and all three CDs will be available on iTunes about mid 2012.

NEW! Check out previews of CD tracks and download "official" bootlegs of The Chaps in concert and other un-released audio at Soundcloud.

CD releases by The Chaps

Released on August 6, 2011 at a sold-out concert in Dunedin, "Don't Worry 'Bout Your Age" was later selected as one of three finalists for the RIANZ NZ Music Tui Awards Best Folk Album of the Year 2012. Recorded over a three year period at the University of Otago Albany Street Studios by John Egenes, it was one of the first recording projects mixed on the new SSL desk installed in 2010. Interestingly, the very first recording made by The Chaps and never released was done by the late John Clarke in 1990 at the very same studios when they were owned by Radio New Zealand!

The CD contains 12 tracks with all but three penned by one of The Chaps. With the exception of Jane Clark who played fiddle on three tracks, all instruments have been played by The Chaps and recorded simultaneously and few additional parts have been added giving it an almost "live to tape" sound.

• Don't Worry 'Bout Your Age (Dodd)
• Do It in the Shade (Turner)
• Mess Around (Ertegün)
• Mama Bear (Ballard)
• We Can't Depend On You (Dodd)
• John (Turner)
• Come See About Me (Holland, Dozier, Holland)
• Feets Too Big (Benson, Fisher)
• Hey Baba Rhubarb (Dodd)
• She's Good (But She Ain't You) (Ballard)
• Ain't That the Truth (Dodd)
• Fire That You Set (Turner)

Following the success of "In the Club" which featured tracks from a live concert, The Chaps decided to produce a studio album. "Hiphopalong" was completed in 2003 and features 14 tracks, including songs written by each of The Chaps and by former New Zealander Paul Metsers.

The Chaps are ably assisted on this album by many other fine musicians including Doug Wright, Chris Maydon, Jim Strang, Red McElvie, Mike Gibbs, Robin Wellaway, Jo van der Laarn and a string quartet!

Nick Leaden and Nigel Jenkins engineered the recording of many of the tracks with additional recording, mixing and mastering done by Hyram Ballard at Magnetic South.

• A Believer Like Me (Turner)
• Pathway of Love (Metsers)
• Thought of the Longer Days (Moroney)
• Thank You For Leaving Me (Ballard)
• I'm Gonna Try Again (Turner)
• Line of Fire (Dodd)
• Walking One and Only (Hicks)
• Portrait of a Serial Photographer (Dodd)
• The Simple Life (Metsers)
• Thirty Days or Thirty Dollars (Ballard)
• Flow and Ebb (Dodd)
• You Sure Did a Number on Me (Turner)
• Eye of the Storm (Dodd)
• Do It Without the Numbers (Turner)

A concert on 3 July 1993 at the University of Otago Staff Club was recorded on 16-track two inch tape recorder and selected tracks were overdubbed and mixed by Sid Limbert at Remarkable Records in Queenstown, New Zealand.

The result is a fine collection of original material and other songs seldom heard elsewhere.

Originally released on cassette, the CD release features four previously unreleased tracks mixed by Hyram Ballard and John Dodd and mastered by Hyram Ballard at Magnetic South.

• Toward the Light (Turner)
• Blues at Sunrise (Dodd)
• One at a Time (Wayne/Raleah)
• Tiff (Turner)
• Land of the Navajo (Rowan)
• Eye of the Storm (Dodd)
• Wife and Mother (Trad./Jolly Boys)
• Red Blooded Lover (Dodd/Smith)
• Ashes of Love (Analin/Analin/Wright)
• One Step Over the Line (Hiatt)
• Karikari Kirikiri (Melbourne)
• Deep Elem Blues (Trad.)
• Money Tree (Pendergast)
• There's a Party Goin' On (Turner)