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What is country music?
Country country
Two More Bottles of Wine - Suzannah Espie, from her 2006 album A Few More Days.
Rather Be Gone - the Davidson Brothers, from their 2011 album Here To Stay. Country with a bluegrass flair.
Roaming Kinds - Hana and Jessie-Lee's Bad Habits, from their album Say What You Mean, which came out in April 2024.
He Died With His Boots On - the Re-mains, from their 2016 album Field Conditions.
The Devil's Inside My Head - Kasey Chambers, from 2008, her album Rattlin' Bones. It was released as a Kasey Chambers album but also prominent throughout was her then-husband, Shane Nicholson.
Lights On the Hill - from the YouTube archives, one of Australia's greatest folk singers, Slim Dusty (in real life David Gordon Kirkpatrick), in concert with Australian export Keith Urban. The song was written in the early 1970s by Slim's wife Joy McKean and was a hit for them in 1973, earning for Joy the first Golden Guitar award for Song of the Year at the first Tamworth Country Music Festival in January 1973.
Lied To Me - Git, from their 2003 album Flowers. Featuring Trish Anderson, Sarah Carroll, Suzannah Espie and Matty Ryan.
Country rocks
Rolling Through the Straw - Opelousas (the band, not the city in Louisiana), the song was on their album Opelousafried, which came out in February 2024.
Solid Rock - Goanna, from their 1982 album Spirit of Place. A goanna is a type of big lizard that lives in the Australian desert, and the solid rock in the song title is Uluru, or Ayers Rock as it used to be called.
Ballad of a Broken Man - Dirt River Radio, from their album Beer Bottle Poetry, a 2009 release.
Country folk
And When They Dance - Danny Spooner, renowned folk musician, playing with the Australian Chamber Orchestra. They recorded an album, Live from City Recital Hall, in Sydney in 2007. Danny was born in England, moved to Australia in 1962, and became well known in the Australian folk scene.
Waltzing Matilda - the Bushwackers playing in a pub and doing the Aussie classic, from an album titled the Bushwackers Lost Attic Tapes 1970s. The song is deeply embedded in Australian culture. The original lyrics were composed in 1895 by Australian poet Andrew Barton "Banjo" Paterson.
Fisherman's Daughter - the Waifs, from their 2003 album Up All Night.
Down Where the Banksias Grow - Andy Baylor, the title track to his 2012 album.
Frank Moylan supplies our for our hello and goodbye and in between musical bits.
