Anyone Remember Slim Dusty ?
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- Alan Brookes
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Anyone Remember Slim Dusty ?
Slim Dusty was very popular in Australia and Britain, but you don't hear much about him nowadays.
His great hit, "A Pub With No Beer", must go down as one of the most melancholy and sad songs of all time, and, once heard, is fixed in your memory for life.
Anyone out there who met him or played with him ?
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Hi Alan ,
I was fortunate enough to have worked with him .
I was in his band from 1983 to 1989 . We toured
constantly and i got to see every corner of Australia and got paid for it . I also recorded with
him right up to his last cd , which was as i remember
his 103rd release for EMI records . On a sad note
i was standing behind the band at the opry watching
Tommy White play when a friend of mine told me that
he had just passed away. he was given the honour of
a state funeral by the Australian government .
we all miss him .
I was fortunate enough to have worked with him .
I was in his band from 1983 to 1989 . We toured
constantly and i got to see every corner of Australia and got paid for it . I also recorded with
him right up to his last cd , which was as i remember
his 103rd release for EMI records . On a sad note
i was standing behind the band at the opry watching
Tommy White play when a friend of mine told me that
he had just passed away. he was given the honour of
a state funeral by the Australian government .
we all miss him .
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Who in Australia has not heard of Slim? Our most iconic, best-loved, most durable, prolific country music performer who wrote songs which were uniquely Australian, sang about Australia and its people and became one of the foundations of Australian country music.
A genuine man of the people who remained humble and lived an honest life without pretence or pretentiousness. A true legend, and greatly missed.
A genuine man of the people who remained humble and lived an honest life without pretence or pretentiousness. A true legend, and greatly missed.
The steel guitar is a hard mistress. She will obsess you, bemuse and bewitch you. She will dash your hopes on what seems to be whim, only to tease you into renewing the relationship once more so she can do it to you all over again...and yet, if you somehow manage to touch her in that certain magic way, she will yield up a sound which has so much soul, raw emotion and heartfelt depth to it that she will pierce you to the very core of your being.
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