title: Portrait: The Very Best of John Schumann
text: # Portrait: The Very Best of John Schumann
  
  Portrait: The Very Best of John Schumann is a "best of" album by John Schumann, previously the frontman of Redgum. It includes songs from his previous two solo albums, Etched in Blue and True Believers, I was only 19 from his Redgum days, and a previously unreleased track, "One True Game", about Australian rules football.
  
  ## Album artwork
  
  The cover art shows a painting of Schumann by Sue Flanagan, which was entered in the Archibald portrait competition in 2002.
  
  ## Track listing
  
  * "I Was Only Nineteen"
  * "Borrowed Ground"
  * "Holy Mary"
  * "Thunder Across The Reef"
  * "Safe Behind The Wire"
  * "For The Children"
  * "If I Close My Eyes"
  * "Leigh Creek Road"
  * "Clancy of the Overflow"
  * "Eyes on Fire"
  * "Roll on the Day"
  * "If the War Goes On"
  * "One True Game"
  