Songs of the Australian Bush, including the first ever recording of the original version of Waltzing Matilda.
Another disc of Australian bush songs? You bet - and brought to life by one of Australia's most respected folk singers, Denis Gibbons.
Features the original version of Banjo Paterson's Waltzing Matilda (as well as the one we all know and love) and many more of our finest bush songs - 23 tracks in all including Click Go The Shears, Wallaby Stew, The Wild Colonial Boy, The Drover's Dream and The Broken Down Squatter.
Press quotes:
“songs, familiar and obscure, come evocatively to life in the hands of a premier folkie.”
— Sunday Herald Sun
“on this entertaining album ... grog shanties, road junctions and waterholes are brought to life by one of Australia's most respected folk singers”
— New Classics, UK
“Gibbons sings with a gentle simplicity, concentrating on the meaning of the words.”
Click Go the Shears (trad. arr.. Jones) The Drovers Dream (trad.) Reedy River (Lawson) Waltzing Matilda (Paterson/McPherson) Another Fall of Rain (trad.) The Old Bullock Dray (trad.) Denis O'Reilly (trad.) Wallaby Stew (trad.) Lazy Harry's (trad.) The Bush Girl (Lawson) Billy of Tea (trad.) The Billygoat Overland (Paterson) Botany Bay (trad. arr. Jones) The Broken Down Squatter (Flower) The Old Palmer Song (trad.) The Gum Tree Canoe (trad.) The Wild Colonial Boy (trad.) Melody of the Rain (Magoffin/Webb) LimeJuice Tub (trad.) Andy's Gone with Cattle (Lawson) South Australia (trad.) Waltzing Matilda (trad.) Waltzing Matilda Queensland version (Paterson)
Denis Gibons has sung Australian folk songs from Simpsons Gap in Central Australia to Government House in Victoria. In 1982 he received an Advance Australia Award, for his outstanding contribution to Australian Folk Music.