DISC ONE

To The Shores Of Botany Bay

The Wooloomooloo Lair

Clancy Of The Overflow

The Overlanders

And The Band Played Waltzing Matilda

Waltzing Matilda

Theme From Ben Hall

One Of The Has Beens

Jog Along ‘Til Shearing

The New Broom

Van Diemans Land

Lachlan Tigers

Lime Juice Tub

The Flying Pieman

Marijauna Australiana

Theme From Cash & Co.

DISC TWO

Hard Luck Stories

Billy Of Tea

Flash Jack From Gundagai

Faces In The Street

Ned Kelly’s Tunes

The Ballad Of 1891

Weevils In The Flour

Freedom On The Wallaby

Les Darcy

Dick’s Pig

Bill’s Yarn

The Tent Poles (Are Rotten On The Wallaby)

The Mistress On The Floor

Stringybark Creek

Annie, Past Carin’

THE BUSHWACKERS STORY

For the record //

There are only a few Australian artists who manage to enjoy an extensive recording career. One reason is the relatively small home market in which locals compete with one another and a huge international catalogue for a share of the consumer’s discretionary music dollar. Another is that it requires a significant amount of luck to maintain positive relations with labels where personnel come and go on a regular basis. The loss of their label ‘champion’ often spells the end of the artist’s relationship.

In the folk (later country) market in which the Bushwackers operate, the numbers are even smaller - about 10% market share by most estimations. The bush music/trad market is a much smaller part of that again. Given that, most Australian artists identifying as folk/roots usually manage just a handful of commercial releases across a career and those often - by necessity, self-funded.

To have managed to release 40+ commercial recordings across a career, all of which have recouped costs for the issuing label, is notable. Indeed unique.