View basket “Car Wheels on a Gravel Road” 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 Sheryl Crow Be Myself Americana / Country | Warner Bros | 1LP Released 30th May 2017 £19.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Sheryl Crow Be Myself £19.00 Genre: Americana / Country Label: Warner Bros SKU: 093624912941 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 30th May 2017 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Florida Georgia Line Dig Your Roots Americana / Country | Big Machine | 1LP Released 14th October 2016 £TBC Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Florida Georgia Line Dig Your Roots £TBC Genre: Americana / Country Label: Big Machine SKU: 00843930025121 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 14th October 2016 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Chris Hillman Bidin’ My Time Americana / Country | Rounder | 1LP Released 22nd September 2017 £27.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Chris Hillman Bidin’ My Time £27.00 Genre: Americana / Country Label: Rounder SKU: 1166100250 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 22nd September 2017 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View American Aquarium Chicamacomico Americana / Country | Losing Side Records | 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 19th August 2022 £20.00 Select options American Aquarium Chicamacomico £20.00 Genre: Americana / Country Label: Losing Side Records Formats: 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released Date: 19th August 2022 Read More Select options View Product Quick View Johnny Cash Sings The Songs That Made Him Famous Americana / Country | Charly | 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 20th July 2018 £21.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Johnny Cash Sings The Songs That Made Him Famous £21.00 Genre: Americana / Country Label: Charly SKU: SUNSLP1235 Formats: 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released Date: 20th July 2018 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Willie Nelson Teatro Americana / Country | UMR | 180g, 1LP Released 4th August 2023 £26.00 Add to basket Reserve View Reservations Willie Nelson Teatro £26.00 Genre: Americana / Country Label: UMR SKU: 5549067 Formats: 180g, 1LP Released Date: 4th August 2023 Reserve View Reservations Read More Add to basket View Product Quick View Allison Moorer Blood Americana / Country | Autotelic Records | 1LP Released 3rd April 2020 £15.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Allison Moorer Blood £15.00 Genre: Americana / Country Label: Autotelic Records SKU: ATR0011 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 3rd April 2020 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Eilen Jewell Queen Of The Minor Key Americana / Country | Signature Sounds | 1LP Released 3rd October 2011 £19.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Eilen Jewell Queen Of The Minor Key £19.00 Genre: Americana / Country Label: Signature Sounds SKU: LPSIG7002 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 3rd October 2011 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View (Original Harmony Ridge) Creek Dippers, The Golden State Locket (The First 3 Albums) Americana / Country | Glitterhouse | 4LP, Box Set Released 14th December 2018 £99.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders (Original Harmony Ridge) Creek Dippers, The Golden State Locket (The First 3 Albums) £99.00 Genre: Americana / Country Label: Glitterhouse SKU: GRBOX965 Formats: 4LP, Box Set Released Date: 14th December 2018 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Lukas Nelson & Promise of the Real A Few Stars Apart Americana / Country | Fantasy | 1LP Released 11th June 2021 £24.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Lukas Nelson & Promise of the Real A Few Stars Apart £24.00 Genre: Americana / Country Label: Fantasy SKU: 7223697 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 11th June 2021 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders See more in Americana / Country Start again
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