Show 169
The Down Under Hour #downunderhour
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Folk music: what even is it. We sure don't know, but we could make the point that all music is folk music.
A Pub With No Beer - Slim Dusty, a hit for him in 1957. The song was written and first recorded by another Australian musician, Gordon Parsons, in 1954.
Good Light In Broome - Neil Murray, from his 2000 album The Wondering Kind, telling us a bit about the lively coastal town in Western Australia.
Bush Medicine - Andy Baylor, from his 2012 album Down Where The Banksias Grow.
Sally And The Preacher - the Audreys, from 2008, their album When The Flood Comes. Produced by frequent contributor to the show, Shane O'Mara.
Beware of Bandits - Van Walker, from his 2008 album Celestial Railroad.
Hard Land - Chris Wilson, singing, playing harmonica, and, unusually for him, playing guitar, from his album Flying Fish, a 2012 release.
This week's venture into the vault
Goanna, not the large lizard, Goanna the band, known for mixing social commentary with popular music - here's three tracks from a crackling disc of 1982 vinyl album titled Spirit of Place.
- Children of the Southern Land
- Stand Y'r Ground
- Solid Rock
Folks like us
Where the Wild Roses Grow - Alex Burnett and Lanie Lane singing the Nick Cave song. It's from a Nick Cave tribute concert tour called "Straight To You" that went around Australia in 2012, presented by a national radio network. Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds did it in 1996 on an album titled Murder Ballads, presented as a duet with Cave and Kylie Minogue.
House of the Rising Sun - Tommy Emmanuel, from a performance he did in Melbourne in 2005 and released on the album titled Live One.
The Desert Blooms Again - Broderick Smith, from his 2018 album Man Out of Time.
Waltzing Matilda - the Bushwackers with their version of the Aussie classic, from an album titled The Bushwackers Lost Attic Tapes 1970s. The original lyrics were composed in 1895 by Australian poet Andrew Barton "Banjo" Paterson.
Dom Mariani and the Majestic Kelp start us off, move us along, and tell us when we're done.
