View basket “A Good Feelin’ To Know Poco” has been added to your basket. 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 Neil Young A Letter Home Americana / Country | Third Man Records / Reprise | 180g, 1LP Released 12th May 2014 £18.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Neil Young A Letter Home £18.00 Genre: Americana / Country Label: Third Man Records / Reprise SKU: TMR245 Formats: 180g, 1LP Released Date: 12th May 2014 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Justin Townes Earle Harlem River Blues Americana / Country | Bloodshot | 180g, 1LP, Includes Download Code Released 25th September 2010 £17.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Justin Townes Earle Harlem River Blues £17.00 Genre: Americana / Country Label: Bloodshot SKU: BS178LP Formats: 180g, 1LP, Includes Download Code Released Date: 25th September 2010 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Nearly New View Product Quick View Natalie Maines (Dixie Chicks) Mother Americana / Country | Colombia | 1LP, Includes CD Released 20th July 2023 £12.00 Add to basket Reserve View Reservations Natalie Maines (Dixie Chicks) Mother £12.00 Genre: Americana / Country Label: Colombia SKU: nn267783 Formats: 1LP, Includes CD Released Date: 20th July 2023 Reserve View Reservations Read More Add to basket View Product Quick View Don Henley Cass County Americana / Country | Virgin Records | 180g, 2LP Released 25th September 2015 £25.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Don Henley Cass County £25.00 Genre: Americana / Country Label: Virgin Records SKU: 4741809 Formats: 180g, 2LP Released Date: 25th September 2015 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Lucinda Williams Car Wheels on a Gravel Road Americana / Country | Music On Vinyl | 180g, 1LP, Includes Insert Released 16th June 2014 £27.00 Add to basket Reserve View Reservations Lucinda Williams Car Wheels on a Gravel Road £27.00 Genre: Americana / Country Label: Music On Vinyl SKU: MOVLP1125 Formats: 180g, 1LP, Includes Insert Released Date: 16th June 2014 Reserve View Reservations Read More Add to basket Nearly New View Product Quick View Kathy Mattea Walk The Way The Wind Blows Americana / Country | Mercury | 1LP Released 12th January 2023 £5.00 Add to basket Reserve View Reservations Kathy Mattea Walk The Way The Wind Blows £5.00 Genre: Americana / Country Label: Mercury SKU: nn256102 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 12th January 2023 Reserve View Reservations Read More Add to basket View Product Quick View Hiss Golden Messenger O Come All Ye Faithful Americana / Country | Merge Records | 1LP, 2LP, Coloured Vinyl, Gatefold Sleeve, Includes Download Code Released 12th November 2021 £21.00 - £29.00 Select options Hiss Golden Messenger O Come All Ye Faithful £21.00 - £29.00 Genre: Americana / Country Label: Merge Records Formats: 1LP, 2LP, Coloured Vinyl, Gatefold Sleeve, Includes Download Code Released Date: 12th November 2021 Read More Select options View Product Quick View Drivin' N' Cryin' Archives Vol. 1 ’88-’90 Americana / Country | Plowboy Records | 1LP Released 27th October 2016 £16.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Drivin' N' Cryin' Archives Vol. 1 ’88-’90 £16.00 Genre: Americana / Country Label: Plowboy Records SKU: PLOLP1039 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 27th October 2016 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Korey Dane Youngblood Americana / Country | Innovative Leisure | 1LP Released 7th October 2015 £17.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Korey Dane Youngblood £17.00 Genre: Americana / Country Label: Innovative Leisure SKU: IL2033V Formats: 1LP Released Date: 7th October 2015 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Willie Nelson Ride Me Back Home Americana / Country | Sony Music | 1LP Released 21st June 2019 £20.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Willie Nelson Ride Me Back Home £20.00 Genre: Americana / Country Label: Sony Music SKU: 19075935631 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 21st June 2019 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders See more in Americana / Country Start again
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