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Focusing on Australian folk music, Australian bush ballads and/or Australian folk musicians. The focus of my blog is on Australian folk music and folk musicians to preserve such music in the public arena before it becomes lost. Much of the music I supply was ripped from LP and edited by me. I am happy to do the same for anyone holding such music. Please email me if you wish to contribute. I was born and raised in Queensland mainly on sheep and cattle stations but migrated to the cities as an adult. Everyone reckoned that I would make a good stockman when I grew up hence the nickname. When I was young my main music influences were the old time hillbillies, Tex Morton, Slim Dusty, Buddy Williams, the McKean Sisters etc mixed with the 1950s hit parade songs. I loved Presley, Everley Bros, Cliff Richards, etc. There's is still a lot I like about much of the music since then but my enduring passion since about 1960 has been folk music especially traditional folk songs from anywhere. Those old songs have been tenderly crafted over decades and sometimes centuries and they usually have such a polished beauty if sung with any real understanding.
Since December 2003 Paul the Stockman has posted over 200 Australian folk albums & here are a few interesting links from the early days.
The Bushwhackers "Australian Bush Songs" EP 1957
Folk Songs from Queensland - 10" LP 1959 -Wattle
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Alex Hood "Songs While the Billy Boils" 1960s?
Alex Hood sings of Australia's First Hundred Years LP c1960
Alex Hood "The Second Hundred Years" LP 1970
Various Artists "The Restless Years" 1968 LPLionel Long "Songs of the Sea" 1964
John Greenway "Australian Folksongs and Ballads" LP 1959 Professor John Greenway was a visiting American scholar. In 1956, he was awarded a Fulbright scholarshop to study Australian labour movement songs. He also undertook field work with traditional aboriginals. He viewed the aboriginal research very positively but he "became so disgusted with the abuses and power of the Australian labor movement" that he became a "rightist" which well accounts for why, when he put out this album of Australian folksongs in 1959, not one union or protest song was included ...
Burl Ives "Australian Folk Songs" 1958 LP
Marian Henderson "Australian Folk Songs" (PIX series) 1964 2 EPs
Glen Tomasetti "Folk Songs with Guitar" LP 1963
Various Artists "Australian Folk Night" 1964
.Leonard Teale and Andy Sundstrom "Songs of the Sundowners" LP 1969
A.L. "Bert" Lloyd "Australian Bush Songs" 1956 LP
Tina Lawton (Untitled Album) LP 1965
Lionel Long "The Bold Bushrangers" 1963 (2 LP Set)
Martyn Wyndham-Read, Phyl Vinnicombe & Peter Dickie "Bullockies, Bushwackers & Booze" LP 1967
Glen Tomasetti "Gold Rush Songs" LP 1975
Various Artists "Folk Concert on Campus" Sydney University 1964 LP - 2 songs by Beth Schurr (early BMC member)
The Bush Music Club "Songs from the Shearing Sheds" Mono LP 1966 Re-issue
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