CD cover notes: The Never Never Land

THE NEVER NEVER LAND – songs of Henry Lawson   ((c) Ian MacDougall, 1984)

 As set to music and sung by Ian MacDougall

THE TRACKS we have travelled

 If you have the CD but not the cover notes, well then here they are. If you don’t have the CD, well at least you can get an idea of what you are missing. If you want a copy of the CD to go with these notes, drop me an email at charlie.honk@live.com and we’ll see what we can do. I keep stocks low, so there may be a short wait while new CDs are made.

 01. The Old Bark School                                            5:11

02. The Never Never Land                                         5:18                

03. The Lights of Cobb and Co.                                  4:57

04. Down the River                                                     3:47

05. The Bush Dance (from the short story;

      The Fox Hunters [trad.]/ St. Anne’s Reel [trad.])         4:32

06. The Roaring Days/The Wild Colonial Boy [trad.]  5:10

07. Andy’s Gone With Cattle                                      3:04

08. I’m a Rebel Too                                                    3:18

09. The Days When the World was Wide                   6:43

10. The Flash Stockman [trad.]/ Shearers                 4:45

 

Henry Lawson (1867-1922)

 Though he rarely held an Australian fiver in his hands during his whole lifetime, his face appears on its modern equivalent, the ten dollar note. This is because he is to this day the nation’s most popular story teller. Indeed, his short stories are to Australia’s literature what Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales are to England’s: a heady brew of characters and situations drawn from a crucial period in the nation’s development that often bubbles over with its humour, detail and wisdom.

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