Tune Add: Slim Dusty

Subject: Tune Add: Slim Dusty
From: Peace
Date: 20 Jul 07 - 05:10 PM

I have noticed that it's really difficult at times to track down Australian folk songs or the works of Australian writers--and I certainly mean NO offense to Australia or its musicians. I chanced upon this site

E-Chords.com - Slim Dusty Guitar Tabs

and there are a dozen of his songs there (with chords that may or may not be accurate to greater or lesser degrees). Anyway, would it be a reasonable consideration to have a thread of some sort that keeps chance finds like this?


    Slim Dusty - A Pub With No Beer

    Slim Dusty - Dead On Time

    Slim Dusty - G'day g'day

    Slim Dusty - Gum Trees By The Roadway

    Slim Dusty - I Love To Have A Beer With Duncan

    Slim Dusty - Indian Pacific

    Slim Dusty - Lights On The Hill

    Slim Dusty - Plains of Peppimenarti

    Slim Dusty - Ringer From the Top End

    Slim Dusty - Rusty It's Goodbye

    Slim Dusty - Saddle Boy

    Slim Dusty - The Biggest Disappointment

    Slim Dusty - Three Rivers Hotel

    Slim Dusty - Walk A Country Mile

    Slim Dusty - When the Rain Tumbles Down in July

    Slim Dusty - Where Country is


http://www.e-chords.com/tabs.asp?idartist=6375

Subject: RE: Tune Add: Slim Dusty
From: Folkiedave
Date: 20 Jul 07 - 07:34 PM

Anyone know the words to "When the Rain Tumbles Down in July" it seems singularly appropriate for the UK.......!!

Serious request...............

Dave

Subject: RE: Tune Add: Slim Dusty
From: Peace
Date: 20 Jul 07 - 08:03 PM

From that link above, Dave.

Subject: RE: Tune Add: Slim Dusty
From: Bob Bolton
Date: 20 Jul 07 - 09:49 PM

G'day Peace,

It's worth keeping in mind that a popular singer, as Slim was, inevitably has other people's songs "credited" to him. Two obvious examples in your list are:

The Pub With No Beer: © Gordon Parsons (even if he did pinch most of the words from Paddy Sheehan's 1941 poem A Pub Without Beer ... and the tune from the first part of Stephen Foster's Beautiful Dreamer!)

Gum Trees By The Roadway was the title of an earlier popular Australian song ... (~)'20/'30s. I'm not sure if Slim's rendition is his own - or a case of him reviving an old favourite.

Regards,

Bob

Subject: RE: Tune Add: Slim Dusty
From: Peace
Date: 20 Jul 07 - 11:59 PM

Yeah. Right to that, Bob. It's much the same when we search for North American songwriters. However, would you see any percentage to logging specifically Aussie songs on a thread? On the rare occasion when someone has requested a song by an Ozite, often as not it's not until YOU come along that we can get anything definitive about the song or sometimes the performer/writer.

Subject: RE: Tune Add: Slim Dusty
From: Bob Bolton
Date: 21 Jul 07 - 04:08 AM

G'day Peace,

You are right - with a performer of (say) Slim's stature, a repertoire builds up which is identified by his/her fans as a body of "his/her songs". A thread dediciated to any performer who has a large following will help those who come here to find lyrics / tunes / chords / history / translations?... even if those with a wider view see all sorts of other connections - even "ownerships".

If the thread works ... what other justifications does it need?

Regards,

Bob

Subject: RE: Tune Add: Slim Dusty
From: Peace
Date: 21 Jul 07 - 07:29 PM

I'll run it by Joe. I'll be gone until August, so maybe after that. Thanks.

Subject: RE: Tune Add: Slim Dusty
From: Jim Lad
Date: 21 Jul 07 - 08:22 PM

Ah, this Slim!