Down The Overlander’s Trail – The Early Days of Country Music In Australia.
It may seem amazing to some there was a time when country music ruled the Australian capital city radio airwaves. This was the 1940s and early 1950s when we didn’t feel as ‘musically pigeon-holed’ as today. There was also a lot of ‘light classical’ music available but it was ‘country and western’, for that’s what it was called, that you heard when you tuned into the more popular stations.
Much of the music was used for station breaks, interludes and to back spoken commercials. It had a ‘western’ sound familiar to anyone who had seen a Hollywood western film – for this is where ‘country and western’ got its name.
Down The Overlander’s Trail – The Early Days of Country Music In Australia features 38 tracks highlighting this significant time in Australian music history with artists such as Tex Morton, Reg Lindsay, June Holms, Johnny Ashcroft, Slim Dusty and many more.
Album Highlights include:
| CD 1 The Hillbilly Singers – When I Get To The End of the Way Art Leonard – The Face on the Barroom Floor Len Maurice – The Big Rock Candy Mountain Tex Morton and Harry Thompson – South American Joe Tex Morton – Along the Stock Route Smilin’ Billy Blinkhorn – Poor Ned Kelly Jenny Howard – Oh Johnny, Oh Johnny Oh Bob Dyer – I Never See Maggie Alone Shirley Thoms – Night Time On The Prairie June Holms – Happy Yodelling Cowgirl Gordon Parsons – The Australian Bushman The Two Barnstormers – Mary Jane Waltz |
CD 2 Tim McNamara with the McKean Sisters – Red River Valley Reg Lindsay – Then I’ll Keep On Loving You Queenie and David Kaili – When It’s Springtime in the Rockies Mayo Hunter – Honolulu March Harry Cash – The Black Yodel Buddy Williams – The Overlander Trail Johnny Ashcroft – Little Boy Lost Chad Morgan – The Sheik of Scrubby Creek Tex Croft – Chicken Yodel The McKean Sisters – Where the Frangipani Grow Slim Dusty – The Rain Still Tumbles Down Smoky Dawson – When the Bloom is on the Sage |
This 2CD collection is to be released on 20th January, 2012 through ABC Music/Universal Music Australia.
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