VA - Buried Country 1.5: The Story Of Aboriginal Country Music (2015)

Festival Records to release 'Buried Country 1.5,'a new 2CD release that updates Clinton's Walker's acclaimed 'Story of Aboriginal Country Music!' 'Buried Country 1.5' includes music by Archie Roach, Warumpi Band, Dan Sultan, Troy Cassar-Daley, Kev Carmody, Thelma Plum, Vic Simms, Jimmy Little, Ruby Hunter, the Painted Ladies, Tom Lewis and others. Festival Records and Warner Music Australia are proud to announce the October 30 release of a new and significantly different edition of the ground-breaking 2000 compilation 'Buried Country: The Story of Aboriginal Country Music,' which was originally released in conjunction with a book and documentary of the same name. All formats were the work of author Clinton Walker, who has created this new edition - 'Buried Country 1.5' - to accompany the new edition of his book. Hailed on publication as "an act of restitution" (Rhythms), and a work that "traces new pathways into the songlines of a hidden and resonant Australian musical history" (The Age), 'Buried Country' has had a substantial cultural impact over the years, and will continue to do so with this new release and new developments in the new year. 'Buried Country 1.5' features the key artists from the original 2CD set on the first disc together with a CD's worth of more recent artists. It includes Archie Roach, Warumpi Band, Dan Sultan, Troy Cassar-Daley, Kev Carmody, Thelma Plum, Vic Simms, Jimmy Little, Tom Lewis, Ruby Hunter, the Painted Ladies (with guest vocalists Paul Kelly and Ed Kuepper and others), as well as new liner notes by Clinton Walker and some beautiful new images. Long before Aboriginal creativity could be expressed freely across contemporary Australian culture, before Aboriginal artists, writers, performers and directors were widely acclaimed, it was country music that first gave the original Australians a voice in modern Australia. It might seem an unlikely combination, but country has always offered a vehicle for the dispossessed to tell their stories, and Aboriginal country music has a rich history that continues to inspire today. 'Buried Country 1.5' reveals that music in all its wonderful variations, and provides a revelatory listen to fans of Country music, Indigenous music and Australian music alike.

TRACKLIST

CD1
1. Kev Carmody - You Beautiful
2. Country Outcasts - Blue Gums Calling Me Back Home
3. Gus Williams - Old Aboriginal Stockman
4. Isaac Yamma - Pitjantjatjara Boy
5. Auriel Andrew - Ghost Gums
6. Roger Knox And Euraba - Koorie Rose
7. Tracey Lee Gray - Streets Of Tamworth
8. Mac Silva - Malabar Mansion
9. Ruby Hunter - Women's Business
10. Tiddas - In My Kitchen
11. Troy Cassar-daley - Proud Young Man
12. Rug Cutters - Land Where The Crow Flies Backwards
13. Vic Simms - Get Back Into The Shadows
14. Jimmy Little - Shadow Of The Boomerang
15. Black Allan Barker - Run Dingo Run
16. Lionel Rose - Jackson's Track
17. Vic Simms - Hey Sheriff
18. Warumpi Band - Jailanguru Pakarnu
19. Mop And The Drop Outs - Brisbane Blacks
20. Kankawa Nagarra (Olive Knight) - Nyantu Yangka Parla Jarranyangany Ngarpuwu
21. Ali Mills - Watjim Bat Matilda
22. Maisie Kelly - My Home In The Valley
23. Roger Knox And The Pine Valley Cosmonauts - Wayward Dreams
24. Lionel Rose - I Thank You

CD2
1. Pigram Brothers - Barefoot Kid
2. Naomi Pigram - Hurts To Be Me
3. John Williamson With Warren H Williams - Raining On The Rock
4. Peter Brandy - Long Time Ago
5. Kutcha Edwards - Get Back Up Again
6. Dan Sultan - Old Fitzroy
7. L J Hill The - Pretty Bird Tree
8. Frank Yamma - She Cried
9. Tom E Lewis - Two Dollar
10. John Bennett - Wangkaja
11. Sue Ray - Red Roses
12. Benny Walker - Time
13. Thelma Plum - Around Here
14. Leah Flanagan - September Song
15. Archie Roach - Big Black Train
16. Painted Ladies - Stranger In My Country
17. Glenn Skuthorpe - Great Beyonder
18. Jimmy Little - Yorta Yorta Man
19. Theona Councillor - Cover Me