View basket “Walk The Way The Wind Blows” 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 Stephen Stills & Manassas Bananafish Gardens NY Americana / Country | Air Cuts | 1LP Released 27th May 2016 £20.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Stephen Stills & Manassas Bananafish Gardens NY £20.00 Genre: Americana / Country Label: Air Cuts SKU: ACLP8008 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 27th May 2016 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Diana DeMuth Misadventure Americana / Country | Creaky Gate Records | 1LP Released 25th September 2020 £15.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Diana DeMuth Misadventure £15.00 Genre: Americana / Country Label: Creaky Gate Records SKU: 49386LP Formats: 1LP Released Date: 25th September 2020 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Various Artists Lowe Country: The Songs Of Nick Lowe Americana / Country | Fiesta Red/New West | 1LP Released 4th October 2012 £13.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Various Artists Lowe Country: The Songs Of Nick Lowe £13.00 Genre: Americana / Country Label: Fiesta Red/New West SKU: FR002LP Formats: 1LP Released Date: 4th October 2012 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Johnny Cash Easy Rider: The Best Of The Mercury Recordings Americana / Country | UMC | 2LP Released 26th June 2020 £26.00 Add to basket Reserve View Reservations Johnny Cash Easy Rider: The Best Of The Mercury Recordings £26.00 Genre: Americana / Country Label: UMC SKU: 5389733 Formats: 2LP Released Date: 26th June 2020 Reserve View Reservations Read More Add to basket Nearly New View Product Quick View Highway 101 Highway 101 Americana / Country | Warner Bros | 1LP Release Date TBC £10.00 Add to basket Reserve View Reservations Highway 101 Highway 101 £10.00 Genre: Americana / Country Label: Warner Bros SKU: nn273656 Formats: 1LP Released Date: Reserve View Reservations Read More Add to basket View Product Quick View Whiskey Shivers Some Part Of Something Devil Duck Americana / Country | Devil Duck | 1LP, Includes CD Released 27th July 2018 £21.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Whiskey Shivers Some Part Of Something Devil Duck £21.00 Genre: Americana / Country Label: Devil Duck SKU: DDUCK074LP Formats: 1LP, Includes CD Released Date: 27th July 2018 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 Band Of Heathens Simple Things Americana / Country | Megaforce | 1LP Released 17th March 2023 £20.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Band Of Heathens Simple Things £20.00 Genre: Americana / Country Label: Megaforce SKU: BOH02302 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 17th March 2023 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Jade Jackson Gilded Americana / Country | Anti | 180g, 1LP, Includes Download Code Released 15th May 2017 £17.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Jade Jackson Gilded £17.00 Genre: Americana / Country Label: Anti SKU: 8714092743517 Formats: 180g, 1LP, Includes Download Code Released Date: 15th May 2017 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Paul's picks View Product Quick View Frazey Ford U Kin Be The Sun Americana / Country | Arts & Crafts | 1LP, Includes Download Code Released 15th May 2020 £19.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Frazey Ford U Kin Be The Sun £19.00 Genre: Americana / Country Label: Arts & Crafts SKU: AC181LP Formats: 1LP, Includes Download Code Released Date: 15th May 2020 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders See more in Americana / Country Start again
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