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Slim Dusty
12+ albums
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David Gordon "Slim Dusty " Kirkpatrick AO, MBE (13 June 1927—19 September 2003) was an Australian country music singer-songwriter and producer, with a career spanning nearly eight decades. He was known to record songs in the legacy of Australian poets Henry Lawson and Banjo Patterson that represented the Australian Bush Lifestyle, and also for his many trucking songs. Dusty was the first Australian to have a No. 1 Hit song with Gordon Parsons (Pub With No Beer). He received an unequaled 37 Golden Guitar and two ARIA awards and was inducted into the ARIA Hall of Fame and the Country Music Roll of Renown. At the time of his death at the age of 76, Dusty had been working on his 106th album for EMI Records. In 2007 his domestic record sales in Australia surpassed seven million. Over the course of his career, he collected more gold and platinum albums than any other Australian artist. Dusty not only recorded songs written by himself and other fellow Australian performers, but also recorded classic Australian poems by Henry Lawson and Banjo Paterson with new tunes, to call attention to the old 'Bush Ballads.' An example is The Man from Snowy River by Paterson. In 1970, he was made a Member of the Order of the British Empire for services to music. In 1971 he won Best Single at the Australian Country Music Awards at the Tamworth Country Music Festival (Slim's wife Joy McKean won Song of the Year as writer of the song for which he won best single). In all, he won a record 35 "Golden
top songs
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Waltzing Matilda
17,4542Duncan
6,9103A Pub With No Beer - 1979 Version
3,8604G'Day G'Day
3,5015A Pub with No Beer
3,1416Looking Forward Looking Back
2,6657Lights On The Hill - Remastered 1992
2,1848A Pub With No Beer - 1979 Version; 1992 Remaster
1,7539Ringer From The Top End
1,59310Walk A Country Mile
1,587albums
The Slim Dusty Heritage Album
No. 50 - The Golden Anniversary Album
The Very Best Of Slim Dusty
The Very Best Of Slim Dusty (Remastered)
G'Day G'Day
Looking Forward Looking Back
Walk A Country Mile
Lights On The Hill (Remastered)
Slim Dusty's Beer Drinking Songs Of Australia
A Piece of Australia
Ringer From The Top End
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Pubs, Trucks & Plains