The night before he blitzed the 38th CMAA Country Music Awards of Australia by winning 6 Golden Guitars, Troy Cassar-Daley made a surprise appearance at the Scully Room of the Southgate Inn to assist HARMONY JAMES who was headlining her own ‘Tailwind’ show before a raptuous audience. (Photo by Peter Versace)
Announced today, the latest inductee onto the Australasian Roll of Renown - an accolade regarded as the pinnacle of recognition for the Australian Country Music Industry…ANNE KIRKPATRICK.
“A true child of country music, Anne first came to prominence when she introduced an exciting new contemporary sound to the Australian scene in the late 1970s. Initially recording her first solo album in 1974, she won her first Golden Guitar in 1979 for Female Vocal.
Over her long and highly acclaimed career she has won five more Golden Guitars including two for Album and Female Vocal and an ARIA Award for her watershed album “Out Of The Blue” in 1991.
A talented songwriter with a unique vocal style, Anne achieved great success as a recording artist and performer - both as an individual and in concert with her parents Slim Dusty and Joy McKean and her family.
For over four decades Anne’s ability to blend a contemporary style with traditional themes has influenced the way many Australians think about modern country music and her early success helped prepare the way for the many young artists who followed in her footsteps.”
Pictured above left:
Cowboys In Cyberspace’s Bob Howe with ANNE KIRKPATRICK at the Australian Country Music Hall of Fame Pioneering Ladies concert earlier in the week. Anne is wearing an original Joy McKean stage outfit.
(Photo by Karen V.)
BECCY COLE and Duncan Toombs rip it up at the Tamworth 2010 TOMKINS GUITAR SHOWCASE (photo by Peter Versace). Dozens of artists played their Tomkins guitars, basses, mandolins, lap steels and fiddle before a packed house in Blazes at Wests. Lots more photos - click here…
A standing ovation for FRANK IFIELD’s
International Spur Award Show at the Tamworth Town Hall,
starring NICKI GILLIS, JOHANNA HEMARA, MIKE CARR and DONNA BOYD
with Bob Howe & the Hillbilly Heaven band
and a surprise appearance from Darren Carr.
More photos by Peter Versace - click here…
The Dead Ringer Band (L to R:) Bill, Kasey, Nash & Diane Chambers,
reunited for the all-star Bill Chambers Tribute Night at The Pub.
To see photos of all the artists, click here…
The JIM HAYNES Big Bush Brekky Variety Show is renowned for encouraging new talent. You never know when the next star might appear.
Pictured right: Young Tiffany plays the guitar for the first time ever…not in a classroom, but in front of a huge audience!
The legendary CHAD MORGAN closes the show at the Tamworth Town Hall
for the Country For Lifeline benefit concert.
2010 Hands of Fame recipients announced:
L to R: Clelia Adams, Nick Erby, Tom Maxwell,
“Slim” Jim Pike, Rodney Walker.
Not pictured, Rod Coe and Susan Jarvis
Here’s wishing a fabulous 2010 to all our readers!
Cowboys In Cyberspace is taking a short break to prepare for our annual pilgrimage to the Tamworth Country Music Festival -10 days of excitement, commencing on 15th January, 2010.
If you’re attending, come and say “G’day”. You’ll find me here…
We’ll be posting up photos from the Festival as it happens, so watch this space!
Meanwhile, you can read my December 2009 Capital News magazine feature story on KRIS KRISTOFFERSON by clicking HERE…
plus album reviews of:
KRIS KRISTOFFERSON - CLOSER TO THE BONE
GUY CLARK - SOMEDAYS THE SONG WRITES YOU
THE WAILIN’ JENNYS - LIVE AT THE MAUCH CHUNK OPERA HOUSE
JOHN FOGERTY - THE BLUE RIDGE RANGERS RIDES AGAIN
All the best,
Big Bob from Bondi
A welcome return to the studio following the completion of his duties as Australian Of The Year, Planet Country is LEE KERNAGHAN at his best. He approaches the country from the inside and writes with the authority of someone who knows and lives the life. Lee is joined by the best of Australian musicians and a few Nashville cameos, including a vocal contribution by Dierks Bentley on Scars. Timely and relevant sounds and lyrics. (ABC/Universal 8000288)
You can take the girl out of Australia, but you can’t take Australia out of the girl! Now residing in Nashville and constantly flying the flag on tour across the States, AUDREY AULD has released Billabong Song, an E.P. of unashamed Australiana. With fellow ex-pat Mark Moffatt and visitors Stuie French and Camille Te Nahu to lend a hand, Audrey sings Waltzing Matilda, And The Band Played Waltzing Matilda, Pub With No Beer, Camooweal, and her own delightful tribute to ‘home’, Australia (Paint You A Picture). To complete the journey, she recites My Country. Heart-warming and heart-felt. (Reckless Records RECK0010) www.audreyauld.com
Fifteen years have passed since TODD SNIDER first hit our airwaves with Alright Guy. He’s seen a lot of life since then and his latest album The Excitement Plan is full of, as he puts it himself, “the best… most open hearted … well-thought-out lyrics I could come up with. I wanted every song to be sad and funny at the same time, vulnerable and entertaining at the same time, personal and universal at the same time”. He succeeds and with the help of producer Don Was, this is one of the most engaging albums of the year. (through Shock Records in Australia CTX495CD)
Equal parts sugar and spice, MIRANDA LAMBERT moves with ease from tender self-penned introspective songs, to letting it all hang out on a raucous take on Julie Miller’s Somewhere Trouble Don’t Go. The 15 tracks on Revolution are just like life. Some days are sweet and other times, well you just have to rock out. Just nominated for Best Female Country Vocal Performance in the 52nd Annual GRAMMY Awards and riding high on the U.S. album and singles charts. (Sony Music Entertainment 88697-46854-2)
Congratulations to
TROY CASSAR-DALEY on wining the 2009 ARIA award for Best Country Album…
‘I Love This Place’.
Troy is pictured right, performing at the media launch for the 2010 Golden Guitars where he received a massive SEVEN nominations.
