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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 169The
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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.
