Listen & tracks
1 of 25 tracks have a preview · 22 works · 67:05
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1 Click Go the Shears 3:34
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2 The Drover’s Dream 2:18
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3 Reedy River Henry Lawson 3:09
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4 Waltzing Matilda Banjo Paterson [original version] 2:48
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5 Another Fall of Rain 3:02
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6 The Old Bullock Dray 3:20
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7 Denis O’Reilly 2:02
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8 Wallaby Stew 2:33
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9 Lazy Harry’s 3:24
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10 The Bush Girl Henry Lawson 3:57
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11 Billy of Tea 2:04
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12 The Billygoat Overland Banjo Paterson 2:47
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13 Botany Bay 3:17
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14 The Broken Down Squatter Charlie Flower 3:59
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15 The Old Palmer Song 2:10
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16 The Gum Tree Canoe 3:00
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17 The Wild Colonial Boy 3:13
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18 Melody of the Rain Richard Magoffin 2:46
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19 Lime Juice Tub 2:53
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20 Andy’s Gone with Cattle Henry Lawson 2:33
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21 South Australia 2:25
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Waltzing MatildaBanjo Paterson 2 movements5:51
- 22 Waltzing Matilda [traditional version] 2:31
- 23 Waltzing Matilda [Queensland version] 3:20
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.
The songs were recorded for a Radio Australia programme, Understanding Australian Folk Songs. Alongside the familiar bush repertoire sit three settings of Henry Lawson and three versions of Waltzing Matilda, among them the first recording of the original Craigielea setting.
Reviews
songs, familiar and obscure, come evocatively to life in the hands of a premier folkie.
on this entertaining album ... grog shanties, road junctions and waterholes are brought to life by one of Australia’s most respected folk singers
Gibbons sings with a gentle simplicity, concentrating on the meaning of the words.
Artists
Denis Gibbons
vocals
Denis Gibons has sung Australian folk songs from Simpson's 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’.
Henry Lawson
composer
Henry Lawson was an Australian poet and short-story writer whose bush verse has long been sung and set to music. His words catch the hard beauty and melancholy of life inland.
Banjo Paterson
composer
Banjo Paterson (1864–1941) was an Australian bush poet, journalist and author whose ballads helped define colonial Australian identity. His 1895 song Waltzing Matilda is widely regarded as Australia’s unofficial national anthem.
Charlie Flower
composer
Christina Macpherson
composer
Richard Magoffin
composer
Lorraine Milne
composer
Lorraine Milne is a composer of songs for young children. Her pieces sit among nursery rhymes and early-childhood repertoire, often marking ordinary moments in a child’s day.
Digital booklet
Digital booklet Notes, texts and credits — read online or download the PDF Download the PDFPerformers
- Denis Gibbons · vocals
- Brian Fitzgerald · bass, synthesiser, drums, piano, recorder, harmonica, vocals · tracks 1–17, 19 and 21
- Andrew Pendlebury · guitars · tracks 2–12, 14–16, 18–21
- Ade Monsbourgh · recorder · tracks 1, 6, 8 and 12
- Alan Hawking · autoharp, guitar, vocals · tracks 2–4 and 22
- Lorraine Milne · percussion · track 23
- Charlie Gauld · guitar · track 23
- Bill Ackfield · whistling · track 23
Technical credits
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Contributor
Martin Wright
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Recording Engineer
Peter Thorp
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Mixing Engineer
Peter Thorp
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Mastering Engineer
Jim Atkins
Details
- List price
- $25.00 AUD
- Total playing time
- 67 minutes 5 seconds
- Release date
- 1 Jun 1995
- Categories
- Australian, Folk music, Vocal
- Genres
- Folk, Vocal & Opera
- Musical work copyright
- © 1995 Move Records
- Sound recording copyright
- ℗ 1995 Move Records
- Catalogue
- MD 3175
- EAN
- 9314574317527
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