One of the most significant genre of music in Australia is the Country music. There are different kinds of country music in Australia such as the folk songs, yodeling, bluegrass and the more popular ones. The genre of country music in Australia are influenced by English and Celtic folk music, the Australian bush and its balladeers, and other popular American music. The themes that the country music in Australia have are outlaws, truckers, stock men, and the life in the outback. Country music in Australia is also full or songs depicting beauty and terror of the Australian bush, political protests, and romantic songs. Below are the most notable country music artists in Australia:
David Gordon “Slim Dusty” Kirkpatrick
Slim dusty is a very important artists in the country music industry in Australia. He is a song-writer, a singer and a producer. His career span for almost eight decades. Slim Dusty made songs about the truckers in the Australian bush. Some of the characters that he made songs about are Banjo Patterson and Henry Lawson. Slim has a reputation of being the first ever Australian who got a number one hit with the great Gordon Parsons. This song was entitled Pub wWith No Beer. He gained a lot of awards and he got a lot of recognition. Some of his most important awards and recognitions are the Golden Guitar, ARIA Awards and being included in the ARIA Hall of Fame as well as the Country Music Roll of Renown. Before he died at 76 he was still working an album. This was his 106th album that he set to be included in the EMI records. He died on 2004, but his album got 7 million sales in 2007.
Joy McKean
Joy McKean is the wife of Slim Dusty. She is also one of the most important country music artists in Australia. She is also a singer-songwriter. She is also referred to as the “Grand Lady” of the Australian Country Music. She has a reputation as one of the best songwriters and bush balladeers in Australia. Some of the most popular songs sung by Slim Dusty was written by McKean.
Olivia Newton-John
Olivia is one of the country musicians of Australia. She is also an actress. She was born in Britain. She is a very talented country music artists winning four Grammy awards. She became top one five times and was included in the top ten Billboard of the Hot 100 Singles ten times. Her album also became the number 1 in the Billboard 200 solo albums two times. The RIAA recognized 11 of her singles and 14 of her albums as gold. Besides country music she also has a successful career in other genre of music such as adult contemporary, and pop. She has already sold a hundred million albums all over the world. She was the co-star of John Travolta in Grease.
