Australia: Folk Songs and Bush Verse Volume 1
Traditional ballads, songs and bush verse exploring the very foundation stones of the Australian identity from its convict birth through to Federation. Australia: Folk Songs And Bush verse Volume One: Convict Stain To Shearer's Blades includes:
Disc 1: Rare Convict Ballads And Broadsides - With the end of transportation in 1868, a total of 806 ships had brought around 162,000 male and female convicts to Australia, and with them they brought songs and stories of misery, despair, contrition and hope.
Disc 2: Bushrangers, Bolters And Other Wild Colonials - Images of goldfields life are etched into our national psyche, including the exploits of that band of men who sought to make their fortunes by a far easier means: bushranging.
Disc 3: Give Me A Hut In My Own Native Land - For many of our pioneering ancestors, life 'up the country' was the real Australia. Here was an endless plain where the very air smacked of freedom. The memories of prison hulks, chain gangs and hostile natives were long forgotten - replaced by gold, sheep, wheat and cattle.
Disc 4: Currency Lads And Lasses: Songs of Australian Colonial Romance - When we think of the bush we usually think of gold, bushrangers, drovers, endless plains and sheep, sheep, sheep - however rest assured, there was also romance.
Disc 5: Songs Of Drovers, Shearers And Bullockies - In the second half of the 19th century, an army of itinerant workers steadied the country on an economic boom ride as they shore the greasy wool from sheep, tended massive herds of cattle and drove teams of bullock drays across mountains and plains, from the bush to the cities.
