The Fair Dinkum Matilda
Songs of the Australian Bush, including the first ever recording of the original version of Waltzing Matilda. Another disc of Australian bush songs? You bet - and brought to life by one of Australia's most respected folk singers, Denis Gibbons.
Features the original version of Banjo Paterson's Waltzing Matilda (as well as the one we all know and love) and many more of our finest bush songs - 23 tracks in all including Click Go The Shears, Wallaby Stew, The Wild Colonial Boy, The Drover's Dream and The Broken Down Squatter.
Artist
Denis Gibbons
Denis Gibons has sung Australian folk songs from Simpson's Gap in Central Australia to Government House in Victoria. In 1982 he received an Advance Australia Award, for ‘his outstanding contribution to Australian Folk Music’.
Press quotes
“songs, familiar and obscure, come evocatively to life in the hands of a premier folkie.”
— Sunday Herald Sun
“on this entertaining album ... grog shanties, road junctions and waterholes are brought to life by one of Australia's most respected folk singers”
— New Classics, UK
“Gibbons sings with a gentle simplicity, concentrating on the meaning of the words.”
— The Age - Green Guide
Audio preview
Track Listing
- Click Go the Shears
- The Drovers Dream
- Reedy River Henry Lawson
- Waltzing Matilda Banjo Paterson
- Another Fall of Rain
- The Old Bullock Dray
- Denis O'Reilly
- Wallaby Stew
- Lazy Harry's
- The Bush Girl Henry Lawson
- Billy of Tea
- The Billygoat Overland Banjo Paterson
- Botany Bay
- The Broken Down Squatter
- The Old Palmer Song
- The Gum Tree Canoe
- The Wild Colonial Boy
- Melody of the Rain
- LimeJuice Tub
- Andy's Gone with Cattle Henry Lawson
- South Australia
- [traditional version]
- [Queensland version]
Waltzing Matilda Banjo Paterson
Performers
- Denis Gibbons · vocal
- Brian Fitzgerald · bass, synthesiser, drums, piano, recorder, harmonica, vocals · all except tracks 18, 20, 22 and 23
- Andrew Pendlebury · guitars · all except tracks 1, 13, 17, 22 and 23
- Ade Monsbourgh · recorder · tracks 1, 6, 8 and 12
- Alan Hawking · autoharp, guitar, vocals · tracks 2—4 and 22
- Lorraine Milne · percussion · track 23
- Charlie Gauld · guitar · track 23
- Bill Ackfield · whistling · track 23
Where to buy
The Fair Dinkum Matilda is available for download from the iTunes Music Store.
It's available for streaming through
Spotify and
Apple Music.
The Fair Dinkum Matilda is available as as CD. It can be purchased online through Buywell Music or the Australian Music Centre which both offer secure online ordering.
Move CDs can be ordered through music retailers across Australia including Readings.
Product details
- List price
- $25.00 AUD
- Engineer
- Peter Thorp
- Mixing
- Peter Thorp
- Mastering
- Jim Atkins
- Release date
- June 1995
- Copyright
- © 1995 Move Records
- Phonogram
- ℗ 1995 Move Records
- Categories
- Australian, Folk music, Vocal
- Catalogue number
- MD 3175
- Barcode
- EAN 9314574317527
