Best of Koori Classic
The Early Years Aboriginal Collection
RRR55

KOORI CLASSIC, the series that launched Australia’s great Aboriginal music. The sound, the style, the feeling – now for the first time available as download!

This forty song collection of classic Aboriginal country and early years Aboriginal rock ‘n’ roll features Roger Knox, Tracey Lee Gray, Vic Simms, Buddy Knox, Mop & the Dropouts, Sharon Mann, Mac Silva, Manny West, Ian ‘Moonie’ Atkinson & Johnny Huckle.

The producers and session musicians are also a Who’s Who of their era. 

The “Best Of” collection was released through Larrikin / Festival as two CDs in 1996.  The new ROUSEABOUT RECORDS re-release can be downloaded from iTunes.

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Mastertouch Pianola
Let The Pianola Play
RRH7

The player piano "Pianola" as we all know it has provided recorded music in hundreds of thousands of homes for almost one hundred years.

The heyday of the instrument was from the end of the Great War through the "Roaring Twenties" - thousands are still in use in 1992. Australia's own Mastertouch Piano Rolls have been manufactured continuously from 1919, providing untold joy for millions of Aussies at sing-alongs in the home, the pub, school or in early cinemas.

The selection of musical favourites from all eras recorded here is played on a 1930's player piano using Mastertouch piano rolls manufactured in 1992 in exactly the same way as they were in 1919.

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Eric Bogle
'A Few Old Songs For Very New Times'
Catalogue Number RRR54

Eric Bogle’s songs are as relevant today as when they were written.

A Few Old Songs For Very New Times features 32 songs from Bogle’s back catalogue not contained on Singing The Spirit Home (RRR49) hand picked by Eric himself and is a must have for any Bogle fan.

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Gary Shearston
Renegade
RRR53

The new album from “the doyen of Australian folkies!”

Gary Shearston has been a major influence on Australian music for some five decades. In a society where we are conditioned to take music for granted, as yet another dismissible commodity, Gary's music has stood the biggest test of all - the test of time.

Renegade is the new album from the father of Australian folk. It features sixteen brand new impeccably written songs from one of the nation's most eulogized singer/songwriters who has also been dubbed "Australia's answer to Johnny Cash" by renowned Australia Producer, Phil Punch.

"This new collection of songs by the doyen of Australian folkies will not disappoint. Here are marvellous songs about Shearston's trouble-laden career (Truth Is), his deep affection for the artist Martin Sharp (Paint Me A Painting, Painter) and the great writer and folklorist Edgar Waters (His Name Was Edgar Waters), all sung with Shearston's distinctive delivery and saturated with Australian imagery. Shearston is a genuinely great songwriter. Anyone who can write something as persuasive as And a Butcherbird Overhead Sang, a very Australian song about suicide, is a national treasure."
(Bruce Elder, SMH, February 2011)

"From the opening track 'Live In Love' to the closing track and album title 'Renegade' this album's brilliant, kept my full attention and give Gary his due, he's a wonderful songwriter and lyricist covering a fascinating range of topics. If Australian folk has passed, well long live Gary Shearston."
(David Turner, Capital News, May 2011)

Album of the week – 5EFM & QBN-FM + featured on 2CH's Saturday Night "Reminiscing with Bob Rogers".

First single 'A Change of Circumstance' featured on CRS Publicity (formerly NFS Publicity) 149 (May 2011)

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