Australian folk songs or something or other

by Rowan Blackmore

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1.	Look Out Below 02:53	buy track
2.	Billy Of Tea 03:10	buy track
3.	Botany Bay 03:33	buy track
4.	Click Go The Shears 03:52	buy track
5.	The Loss Of Bob Mahoney 03:31	buy track
6.	Flash Jack From Gundagai 03:00	buy track
7.	The Unlucky Digger 01:50	buy track
8.	Moreton Bay 04:52	buy track
9.	Anderson's Coast 05:35	buy track
10.	Jog Along Till Shearing 02:47	buy track
11.	The Ryebuck Shearer 03:10	buy track
12.	Queensland Drovers 02:58	buy track
13.	The Lachlan Tigers (ft. Mick Coates) 03:07	buy track
14.	The Yowie 01:59	buy track

about

I was in Bretagne back in 2009. When I returned to Australia, I thought, yeah; I should get drunk and arrange some of the songs I heard there. I just ended up getting drunk. You know, I spent far too many years in a Pogues cover band; as you’ll hear - I guess.

But there were these old Aussie songs that I’d played over many years; you know, before wankers in felt hats showed up.
In the true style of the artist, I kept flogging the same dead horse. So, as with my vision of the Breton stuff, this is pretty much the same thing; but Australian folk.

This project (which I will call, because it sounds better) started in Victoria and ended up in Cairns. The quality and instruments in the songs depends on what part of the country I was in and what I had available. A keen as mustard ear will hear the shitty slab box, donated to me by backpackers that I used as a ‘drum set’.

This is it. Not that previous fancy French stuff that suited your artistic Jeunet, Tarkovsky, Flaubert, Camus, Yoplait lifestyle.

They’re colonial songs. They’re befuddled examples of working class poetry for the illiterate; like you - except they worked.
They’re what we had in the halls and kept the honest, modest musos in work.

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released June 2, 2022

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Rowan Blackmore Cairns, Australia

Describing your own band's art isn't easy. How do you inculcate your influences? You know, like Led Zeppelin, The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, the Ramones and Curtis Stone without separating them from your own, hubris, ephemeral impact on the current music scene?

It's a solipsistic fantasy; like flipping through re-released vinyl in JB-HiFi and believing you're discovering new music. ... more

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