Stranger In My Land Roger Knox & The Pine Valley Cosmonauts SKU: BS179V Barcode: 744302017914 14.00 £14.00 Genre: Americana / Country Label: Bloodshot Released Date: 22nd March 2013 Buying Format: 1LP Includes Download Code Out of stock Back Order Add to your Wishlist Description Product Info Stranger In My Land is a collection of songs originally written by Aborigine artists who were Knox’s peers and predecessors; some tunes previously recorded but difficult to find as well as several unrecorded, handed-down folk songs (which without this recording, could have been lost forever). It is powerful and moving material, heartbreaking and hilarious, downtrodden and uplifting, suffused with longing, alienation, resilience and hope; universal themes arising out of largely unexplored context. It possesses the urgency of a Alan Lomax field recording, but with a spirit that remains relevant in today’s world. Country music crossed the equator in the kitbag’s of US servicemen in WWII and magically struck a chord with a voiceless and near invisible aboriginal population. Soon American cowboy songs and honkytonk classics were retooled to describe rugged outback lifestyles and the migration from country to city. Turns out, you can’t beat this music as a vehicle for telling tough tales and the Aboriginal Country & Western Songbook is peppered with drinking songs and prison songs; songs that yearn for justice and for home; songs of alienation and the loneliness of the outsider. Humor, resignation and outrage stalk a superficially familiar musical landscape that’s been re-populated with stockmen, bandicoots, wallabies, porcupines, grog-drinkers, pelicans and policemen. Stranger In My Land features guest vocals and instrumental performances from Bonnie Prince Billy (\”Scobie\’s Dream\”), Kelly Hogan (\”Blue Gums,\” \”Took The Children Away,\”) Dave Alvin of X, Blasters (\”Land Where The Crow Flies Backwards\”), Sally Timms (\”Home In The Valley\”), Andre Williams (\”Stranger in My Country\”) and perhaps the last known recording from Charlie Louvin of the Louvin Brothers (\”Ticket to Nowhere\”). All this star power is backed The Pine Valley Cosmonauts and the Sadies. Also included in a album is a lovely insert by Langford that gives an apt history of the songs, artists, and people behind this fragile, yet empowering music. This is an album about a man and a people’s struggles in their own place of origin, and the experiences in a journey that such a complex life path can take. Knox is the conduit for these stories and these songs, but this isn’t ancient history and these songs are not museum pieces. The place names and characters are different, but the humanity remains common. In making Stranger In My Land, Roger Knox closes the circle on a strange journey that takes the music and stories of his people all the way around the planet and back to America. “The best music is border music, the sound of cultures colliding. In the late 20th century Black Australians assimilated Country & Western, that whitest of American musical forms, to tell the story of their physical subjugation, spiritual stoicism and eventual political awakening.” — Jon Langford, from the liner notes Artist Roger Knox & The Pine Valley Cosmonauts Genre Americana / Country Label Bloodshot Buying Options 1LP Includes Download Code Format 1LP , Includes Download Code Condition New Country UK Track Listings The Land Where The Crow Flies Backwards Stranger In My Country Blue Gums Calling Me Back Home Took The Children Away Arafura Pearl Brisbane Blacks Wayward Dreams Scobie's Dream Ticket To Nowhere Warrior In Chains Streets of Tamworth Home In The Valley Share this On Facebook On Twitter Via Email More from Americana / Country View Product Quick View Drive-By Truckers Dirty South Americana / Country | New West | 180g, 2LP, Gatefold Sleeve Released 2nd September 2005 £22.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Drive-By Truckers Dirty South £22.00 Genre: Americana / Country Label: New West SKU: NW5007 Formats: 180g, 2LP, Gatefold Sleeve Released Date: 2nd September 2005 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Waylon Jennings Right For The Time (Remembered) Americana / Country | Black Country Rock | 1LP Released 28th March 2014 £17.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Waylon Jennings Right For The Time (Remembered) £17.00 Genre: Americana / Country Label: Black Country Rock SKU: BCR0141 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 28th March 2014 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Son Volt Ballymena Americana / Country | Transmit Sound/Thirty Tigers | 10", EP/Mini Album Released 24th November 2017 £13.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Son Volt Ballymena £13.00 Genre: Americana / Country Label: Transmit Sound/Thirty Tigers SKU: TS20171 Formats: 10", EP/Mini Album Released Date: 24th November 2017 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Jack Francis Early Retirement Americana / Country | Archtop Records | 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 22nd March 2024 £28.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Jack Francis Early Retirement £28.00 Genre: Americana / Country Label: Archtop Records SKU: ATRLP102 Formats: 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released Date: 22nd March 2024 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Arlo McKinley This Mess We’re In Americana / Country | Oh Boy Records | 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 15th July 2022 £19.00 Select options Arlo McKinley This Mess We’re In £19.00 Genre: Americana / Country Label: Oh Boy Records Formats: 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released Date: 15th July 2022 Read More Select options View Product Quick View Loretta Lynn Full Cirle Americana / Country | Sony Legacy | 1LP Released 29th February 2016 £14.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Loretta Lynn Full Cirle £14.00 Genre: Americana / Country Label: Sony Legacy SKU: 88875168971 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 29th February 2016 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Lucinda Williams This Sweet Old World Americana / Country | Thirty Tigers | 2LP, Coloured Vinyl, Gatefold Sleeve, Includes Download Code Released 20th October 2017 £22.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Lucinda Williams This Sweet Old World £22.00 Genre: Americana / Country Label: Thirty Tigers SKU: H20051 Formats: 2LP, Coloured Vinyl, Gatefold Sleeve, Includes Download Code Released Date: 20th October 2017 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Victoria Williams Victoria Williams & The Loose Band ‘Town Hall 1995’ Americana / Country | Fire Records | 1LP Released 22nd April 2017 £20.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Victoria Williams Victoria Williams & The Loose Band ‘Town Hall 1995’ £20.00 Genre: Americana / Country Label: Fire Records SKU: FAME391LP Formats: 1LP Released Date: 22nd April 2017 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Sam Morrow Getting’ By On Getting’ Down Americana / Country | Forty Below Records | 1LP Released 20th November 2020 £21.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Sam Morrow Getting’ By On Getting’ Down £21.00 Genre: Americana / Country Label: Forty Below Records SKU: FBR025LPC Formats: 1LP Released Date: 20th November 2020 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Calexico Edge Of The Sun Americana / Country | City Slang | 180g, 1LP, Includes Download Code Released 13th April 2015 £17.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Calexico Edge Of The Sun £17.00 Genre: Americana / Country Label: City Slang SKU: SLANG50072LP Formats: 180g, 1LP, Includes Download Code Released Date: 13th April 2015 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders See more in Americana / Country Start again
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