View basket “Happy Days” has been added to your basket. View basket “Mother” 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 Strand Of Oaks Eraserland Americana / Country | Dead Oceans | 2LP Released 22nd March 2019 £22.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Strand Of Oaks Eraserland £22.00 Genre: Americana / Country Label: Dead Oceans SKU: DOC171LP Formats: 2LP Released Date: 22nd March 2019 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Matt's picks View Product Quick View Jade Bird Jade Bird Americana / Country | Glassnote Records | 1LP, Gatefold Sleeve Released 19th April 2019 £18.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Jade Bird Jade Bird £18.00 Genre: Americana / Country Label: Glassnote Records SKU: GLS-0242-01 Formats: 1LP, Gatefold Sleeve Released Date: 19th April 2019 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Mount Washington Mount Washington Americana / Country | Glitterhouse | 180g, 1LP Released 20th February 2012 £18.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Mount Washington Mount Washington £18.00 Genre: Americana / Country Label: Glitterhouse SKU: GRLP737 Formats: 180g, 1LP Released Date: 20th February 2012 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Paul's picks View Product Quick View Son Volt Union Americana / Country | Transmit Sound | 1LP, Includes Download Code Released 29th March 2019 £16.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Son Volt Union £16.00 Genre: Americana / Country Label: Transmit Sound SKU: TS2020LP Formats: 1LP, Includes Download Code Released Date: 29th March 2019 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Lori McKenna 1988 Americana / Country | CN Records | 1LP Released 21st July 2023 £19.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Lori McKenna 1988 £19.00 Genre: Americana / Country Label: CN Records SKU: 73384LP Formats: 1LP Released Date: 21st July 2023 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Josh Ritter Sermon On The Rocks (Limited Indies Only) Americana / Country | Pytheas Recordings | 1LP, Coloured Vinyl, Includes CD Released 16th October 2015 £17.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Josh Ritter Sermon On The Rocks (Limited Indies Only) £17.00 Genre: Americana / Country Label: Pytheas Recordings SKU: LPPYTH011 Formats: 1LP, Coloured Vinyl, Includes CD Released Date: 16th October 2015 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Ags Connolly Siempre Americana / Country | Finstock Music | 1LP Released 16th June 2023 £20.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Ags Connolly Siempre £20.00 Genre: Americana / Country Label: Finstock Music SKU: FINST002LP Formats: 1LP Released Date: 16th June 2023 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Merle Haggard Live From Austin, TX Americana / Country | New West | 180g, 1LP Released 27th January 2017 £20.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Merle Haggard Live From Austin, TX £20.00 Genre: Americana / Country Label: New West SKU: NW5155 Formats: 180g, 1LP Released Date: 27th January 2017 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Kathleen Edwards Voyageur Americana / Country | Rounder | 180g, 1LP, Gatefold Sleeve, Includes Download Code Released 22nd February 2012 £20.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Kathleen Edwards Voyageur £20.00 Genre: Americana / Country Label: Rounder SKU: 311451 Formats: 180g, 1LP, Gatefold Sleeve, Includes Download Code Released Date: 22nd February 2012 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Drive-By Truckers Its Great To Be Alive! 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