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S1 - Reedy River Review by Dale Dengate
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The Bush Music Club was founded in 1954 to collect, publish and popularise Australia’s traditional songs, dances, music, yarns, recitations and folklore and to encourage the composition of a new kind of song - one that was traditional in style but contemporary in theme.
Articles © Bush Music Club Inc unless stated otherwise, photographs © individual photographer.
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Monday, 2 December 2024
From the Archives - Extracts from Mulga Wire no. 244 Reedy River review by Dale Dengate
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Sunday, 1 December 2024
From the Archives - Extracts from Mulga Wire - Special 60th Anniversary issue, Dec 2014 - Tributes to John Dengate & poem by Mike Waters
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| S1 - Vale John Dengate © John Warner & Jenni Cole Warner, Aug 2014 |
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| S2 - We Won't See His Like? © John Warner 14/09/13 |
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| S3 - Paean for John Dengate - tune Carrickfergus © John Warner Sept 2013 |
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| S4 - Sixty Years "Bush Music Club" by Mike Waters, 2014 |
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From the Archives - Extracts from Mulga Wire no. 226, Dec 2014 - "The Bush" by Don Watson & Our First Folk Song
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S1 - "The Bush" by Don Watson 
S2 - review by Allen Davis 
S3 - review (cont) 
S4 - Our First Folk Song by John Meredith,
extract from Singabout Feb 1980, Mulga Wire no. 17
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From the Archives - Extracts from Mulga Wire no. 223, June 2014 - BMC Competition Winners
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S1 - Winners of Tune, Song & Verse competitions 
S2 - Verse winner - Australian Dreaming by Stephen Whiteside 
S3 - Song Winner - The Reedy River Still Flows by Bruce Watson 
S4 - Barcoo Dogs for Australia Chamber Orchestra
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From the Archives - Extracts from Mulga Wire no. 297, Oct 2011 - Mixed Bag Aussie Folk Observations
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| S1 - CD Reviews, & songs from John Dengate & Gail Copley |
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| S2 - Review of CDs from Perth band, Loaded Dog |
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| S3 - Mr Murdoch's Song by John Dengate tune - The wearing of the green |
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| S4 - The Room by Gail Copley |
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Friday, 29 November 2024
From the Archives - Extracts from Mulga Wire no. 196, Dec 2009 - The Rambles of Lazy Harry
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From the Archives - Extracts from Mulga Wire no. 146, August 2001 - Archives and the WWW on The Road to Gundagai, plus Son of Lazy Harry, and version of Lazy Harry's collected in UK.
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| S1 - The Rambles of "Lazy Harry" |
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| S2 - Lazy Harry as published in Old Bush Songs by Douglas Stewart & Nancy Keesing, A&R, 1957 |
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| S3 from Songs Sung in Suffolk, vol. 3, Veteran Tapes VT103 (field recording 1985-87 by John Howson ) Sung by Fred Whiting of Kenton, Suffolk |
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| S4 Where Have All the Flowers Gone - A Singalong Memoir Pete Seeger, rev.ed. 2009 + CD. Review by Bob Bolton |
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Monday, 25 November 2024
From the Archives - Extracts from Mulga Wire, no. 186 Feb 2008 - Two Book Reviews
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S1. Two Book Reviews 
S2 - The Songs of Henry Lawson, with music by Chris Kempster,
2nd edition 2008
S3 - The City Bushman, verses selected by John Broomhall 
S4 - One Hundred dances by Mike Waters
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Sunday, 24 November 2024
From the Archives - Extracts from Mulga Wire, no. 195 - October 2009 - Different paths of glory ...
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| S1 - Different Paths to Glory ... or, at least ... to Remembrance: Two sides of a Broken Down Squatter |
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| S2 - The Broken Down Squatter - Mr. C. Lee |
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| S3 - Alan Scott's notes on Mr Lee's version |
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| S4. Extra verse To The Broken Down Squatter, found by Bill Scott in Charles Flower's notebooks |
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From the Archives - Extracts from Mulga Wire, no. 199, June 2010 - Jason & Chloe Roweth score gong at National Folk Festival
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S1 - Best Folk CD of 2009 - National Folk Recording Award 
S2 - review - A Voice That Was Still -
Chloe & Jason Roweth with Jim McWinnie 
S3 - review - Collector - Bill Browne, Roger Hargraves,
Jason Neville, Jim McWinnie, Jason & Chloe Roweth 
S4 - Ballad of 1891 - Words - Helen palmer Music - Doreen Bridges
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From the Archives - Extracts from Mulga Wire, no. 214 - Dec 2012 - We Made the Steel, Songs of the Steel Industry in 1960s NSW (review)
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| S1 - We Made the Steel, Songs of the Steel Industry in 1960s NSW (RF043CD) Roaring Forties |
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| S2 - Steelers' March © Robin Connaughton |
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| S3 - The Sankey Benson Press Shop © Robin Connaughton |
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| S4 - The Booze Fairy © John Warner/Robin Connaughton tune - The Ash Grove (trad) |
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Saturday, 23 November 2024
From the Archives - Extracts from Mulga Wire, no. 193, Jan 2009
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| S1 - Jamborees - Past and Future - Waltzing Around Dagworth - 10 CD history of Australia - and a Poetic point of view from John Dengate |
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| S2 - The Creation of Waltzing Matilda - Australia's Unofficial National Anthem & International Icon, by Dennis O'Keeffe |
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| S3 - CD Review - Folk Songs and Bush Verse by Warren Fahey Vol 1 - Convict Stain to Shearer's Blades - 4 CDs Vol 2 - Celebration of a Nation - 5 CDs |
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| S4 - Australian Made by John Dengate |
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From the Archives - Extracts from Mulga Wire, no. 185 - February 2008 - Two sad farewells over the festive season
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| S1 - Sad News- Death of Ron Edwards |
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| S2 - Passing of Ron Edwards, memories by Dale Dengate |
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| S3 - Ron Edwards (from Oxford Companion to Australian Folklore by Gwenda Beed Davey & Graham Seal) |
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| S4 - Memories of Len Norris and Gulgong by Dale Dengate |
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Thursday, 21 November 2024
From the Archives - Extracts from Mulga Wire, no. 201 - Oct 2010 - The Songs of Reedy River ... and other things
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| S1 - Reedy River + Obit of Rowan Webb, who posted under the name Rowan on Mudcat Cafe folk website - Mudcat obit thread |
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| S2 - By The Eumerella Shore - lyrics Trad, music Louis Lavater (1866-1953) |
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| S3 - By The Eumerella Shore - lyrics |
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| S4 - Obit for Rowan |
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