Black Fingernails, Red Wine

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Black Fingernails, Red Wine

Studio album by Eskimo Joe
Released	10 June 2006
Recorded	Grove Studios, N.S.W, Aust. December 2005 - January 2006
Genre	Rock
Length	42:37
Label	Mushroom
Producer(s)	Eskimo Joe, Matt Lovell
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Eskimo Joe chronology
A Song Is A City (2004)	Black Fingernails, Red Wine (2006)	N/A

Black Fingernails, Red Wine is the third album by the Australian band Eskimo Joe, released on the 10 June 2006. The album became their first Australian ARIAnet Albums Chart #1, debuting at that spot on the chart week of 19 June 2006.The first single released off the album is Black Fingernails, Red Wine, the second single was Sarah with the third single which is yet to be relased being New York. The band flying off to New York to record the video.

The album is noted for being heavily influenced by the production techniques and sound of early 80's rock, with many similarities to vintage Icehouse and INXS. This has led to Tony Martin (Get This, Triple M), backannouncing their songs by calling them 'INXSkimo Joe'.

Kavyen Temperly explains "I always think of things in a concept-record type of way. So I wanted to make a record as if we were a stadium rock band" "If we were like INXS, what kind of record would I want to write?".

Interestingly enough, the band recorded Black Fingernails, Red Wine on the central coast of NSW's "The Grove Studios." The Grove Studios were originally known as "Mangrove Studios" and were formerly owned by INXS bass player Garry Gary Beers.

To record the album the band enlisted sound engineer, Matt Lovell (The Mess Hall, Jebediah, Sleepy Jackson) and also stepped up to the desk and took on production duties themselves for the first time.