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Slim Dusty Walk A Country Mile
First published January 1, 1979
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Slim Dusty
25 booksSlim Dusty, AO MBE was an Australian country music singer-songwriter, guitarist and producer.
He was an Australian cultural icon and one of the country's most awarded stars, with a career spanning nearly seven decades and producing numerous recordings.
He was known to record songs in the legacy of Australia, particularly of bush life and renowned Australian bush poets Henry Lawson and Banjo Paterson that represented the lifestyle. The music genre was coined the "bush ballad", a style first made popular by Buddy Williams, the first artist to perform the genre in Australia, and also for his many trucking songs.
During his lifetime, Dusty was considered an Australian National Treasure. He performed "Waltzing Matilda", a very famous song in Australia, at the closing ceremony of the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games.
- Wikipedia
He was an Australian cultural icon and one of the country's most awarded stars, with a career spanning nearly seven decades and producing numerous recordings.
He was known to record songs in the legacy of Australia, particularly of bush life and renowned Australian bush poets Henry Lawson and Banjo Paterson that represented the lifestyle. The music genre was coined the "bush ballad", a style first made popular by Buddy Williams, the first artist to perform the genre in Australia, and also for his many trucking songs.
During his lifetime, Dusty was considered an Australian National Treasure. He performed "Waltzing Matilda", a very famous song in Australia, at the closing ceremony of the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games.
- Wikipedia
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June 20, 2010
Slim Dusty's Walk A Country Mile is a tough but often hilarious trip through the mulga. It is told by a man who started his singing career as a farm boy with cowdung on his boots and became Australia's most successful country music performer...and a bush legend.
On that long road to success Slim Dusty has busked for a bob in trains and pubs, owned the biggest tent show on the country showgrounds, and hauled caravans around the ocntinent taking his music to the back of beyond. He has sung just about everywhere from outback cattle camps to Sydney's Opera House.
In this book, written in co-operation with John lapsley, well-known as a feature writer for the Australian, Slim Dusty tells about his lifetime of music, about the places he's been, the people he's met, the friends he has made. And he tells the true story behind his best-known song, "A Pub With No Beer."
On that long road to success Slim Dusty has busked for a bob in trains and pubs, owned the biggest tent show on the country showgrounds, and hauled caravans around the ocntinent taking his music to the back of beyond. He has sung just about everywhere from outback cattle camps to Sydney's Opera House.
In this book, written in co-operation with John lapsley, well-known as a feature writer for the Australian, Slim Dusty tells about his lifetime of music, about the places he's been, the people he's met, the friends he has made. And he tells the true story behind his best-known song, "A Pub With No Beer."
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