Spirit of the Anzacs (album)

2015 marks the 100th anniversary of the ANZAC's landing of Australian and New Zealand soldiers at Gallipoli during World War I. In honour of this landmark occasion, former Australian of the Year Kernaghan teamed up with a host of local artists and musicians to record Spirit of the Anzacs. The album was recorded at Rancom Street Studio in Sydney and Kernaghan worked with long-time producer and collaborator Garth Porter.^[4]

The project was inspired by Kernaghan's 2014 visit to the Australian War Memorial when he was shown archives of soldiers' letters to family from the front lines from World War I through to the present day.^[5]

Standard edition (Barcode: 0602547172938)

1. "For King and Country" (by George Sheppard) 0:46
2. "To the Top of the Hill" 3:46
3. "Song for Grace" (by Sara Storer) 4:37
4. "We'll Take Beersheba" 3:23
5. "Oh Passchendaele" 4:32
6. "When the First Bombs Fell" 3:32
7. "Being Your Sons" 4:05
8. "Kokoda – Only the Brave Ones" (duet with John Schumann) 4:12
9. "Teddy Sheean – Forever Eighteen" 3:29
10. "We Heard a Bugle Play" 3:01
11. "Tell Carmelita" 3:52
12. "The Unbearable Price of War" (duet with Lisa McCune) 3:13
13. "The Dust of Uruzgan" (duet with Fred Smith) 6:44
14. "I Will Always Be with You" 3:52
15. "Lest We Forget" (duet with Ben Roberts-Smith) 3:10
16. "Spirit of the Anzacs" (with Guy Sebastian, Sheppard, Jon Stevens, Jessica Mauboy, Shannon Noll & Megan Washington) 3:53

Deluxe edition (Barcode: 602547174987)

17. "As If He Knows"
18. "Changi Banjo"
19. "I Was Only 19 (A Walk in the Light Green)"
20. "The Last Post"

Spirit of the Anzacs debuted at no. 2 in Australia behind Kendrick Lamar's To Pimp a Butterfly before moving to no. 1 the next week. It is Kernaghan's first no. 1 album^[2] and his first to climb in the second week on the charts.^[6] The album sold 7,421 in its first week and 14,005 in its second week.^[7] The album spent four weeks at No. 1.