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at the pub, or at a party, whenever you're stuck, for what to say,
if
you wanna be dinky-di, why don't you give it a try,
look
'em right in the eye and say g'day..."
(Slim Dusty)
Show 136
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.
