SLIM DUSTY SONG BOOK VOL 4
The Slim Dusty Story began back in the 1940s6 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, unequaled), 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.
Australiana Music Books are hard enough to find. The volumes on offer here are only available in strictly limited numbers and if you are a fan we urge you to buy now – once sold out they cannot be replaced – Most are original EMI prints.
48 Slim Dusty favourites arranged for easy guitars with chord boxes, melody line and all the lyrics.
Reprinted in 2006 with new cover shot.
48 National Treasures from the legendary Slim Dusty including:
- Camooweal
- Sugar Shed Lane
- Cattle Camp Crooner
- Keela Valley
- Ghosts of the Golden Mile
- Last Train to Nowhere
- Drought
- Rose of Red River Valley
- Travellin’ Guitar
- The Bequest
- The Paper Boy, Big Frogs in Little Puddles
- A Truckie’s Last Will and Testament
