THE SLIM DUSTY SONG BOOK
VOLUME 12
The Slim Dusty Story began back in the 1940s on a remote dairy farm in the hills behind Kempsey, NSW, when a 10-year-old boy dreamed of being a country music singer. His name was David Gordon Kirkpatrick… he called himself “Slim Dusty” and began to live that dream.
Slim Dusty described his music as “songs about real Australians. I have to be fair dinkum with my audience. I can’t see any other way of doing it,” he said. “You have to believe in what you are singing about.”
Slim Dusty was the first Australian to receive a Gold Record (still the only 78 rpm gold record in existence in this country), the first Australian to have an international record hit, and the first singer in the world to have his voice beamed to earth from space (in 1983, astronauts Bob Crippen and John Young played Slim singing Waltzing Matilda from the space shuttle “Columbia” as it passed over Australia).
His amazing career spanned more than six decades, saw him win 35 Golden Guitars (an achievement as yet, and unlikely to be, unequalled), more Gold and Platinum Record Awards than any other Australian artist, ARIA Awards (Australian Recording Industry Awards) including induction into the ARIA Hall of Fame, video sales Platinum and Gold Awards, an MBE and Order of Australia for his services to entertainment, and he was one of the earliest inducted to the Country Music Roll of Renown.
This volume of songs takes us back to the late 50’s and into the early 60’s, when Slim’s popularity had soared after the release of “The Pub With No Beer” in 1957.
It was a huge success here and overseas and Slim followed up, as was the fashion in those days, with an “Answer To The Pub With No Beer” and “Sequel To The Pub With No Beer”, both of which are included here. Amongst the rest of the 50’s and 60’s songs is the hit “Duncan”, which came out in 1980. Based on drinkers at the “Town and Country” Hotel in Petersham, Sydney, the popularity of “Duncan” was reminiscent of the success of “The Pub”.
Australiana Music Books are hard enough to find at the best of times. Many have slipped out of print and are now simply unattainable. The books on offer here are brand new and remain available in strictly limited numbers – if you are a fan we urge you to buy now – once sold out they cannot be replaced.
Volume 12 features 26 Slim Dusty favourites arranged for easy guitars with chord boxes, melody line and lyrics.
26 Australian Musical Treasures from the Legendary Slim Dusty including
1. Answer to the Pub With No Beer
2. Charley Gray’s Barn Dance
3. Don’t Laugh In the Face of Father Time
4. Duncan
5. Gumtrees by the Roadway
6. Hello and Goodbye
7. High, Wide and Handsome
8. I Don’t Want No Woman Around
9. If You Walk Out That Gate
10. Mareeba’s Rodeo Song
11. Mother’s Wedding Band
12. My Home on The Sunburnt Plains
13. My Pal Alcohol
14. Old Bush Mates of Mine
15. Old Home Week
16. Sequel to “A Pub With No Beer”
17. Silver Spurs
18. Spending My Life in the Sun
19. Sunny Southern Sue
20. The Boys Who Never Returned
21. The Land of Lots of Time
22. The Saddle is His Home
23. The Whispering Bush
24. Travellin’ Through
25. Wagon Trains North
26. When They Muster on the Golden Plain
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