Henry Lawson Rock (Lyrics)

Henry Lawson Rock (Lyrics)

  Your memory still lives in this rock Myth or truth – it matters not Kanimbla Valley’s vast divide Recalls a time the world was wide. Buildings here you worked upon And like your writing they live on Vast spaces tramped your whole life through At this...
Kurt Jacob, Hohner Harmonicas and Me

Kurt Jacob, Hohner Harmonicas and Me

The Kurt Jacob Portrait Melbourne 1937 Kurt Jacob had only recently arrived in Melbourne from Germany to start the first official Hohner Agency, when he was approached one day in 1937, while walking along a Melbourne street, by Horace Pearson. Jacob was on his way to...
Gary Shearston: THE BEST OF ALL TRADES

Gary Shearston: THE BEST OF ALL TRADES

Rouseabout RRR46 (2009) review  ©️Jim Low * The last studio recordings made by Australian singer-songwriter Gary Shearston came out in 2001. In 2007 a selection of Gary’s recorded work was released in recognition of his valuable contribution to Australian music....
The Broken Soldier (Lyrics)

The Broken Soldier (Lyrics)

The stone works mentioned in this song were crafted by a returned World War One soldier named William Shirley. They are in Ku-ring-gai Chase National Park New South Wales. Along a dusty, bushland track When we were only kids We came upon a sandstone sphinx And some...
PEGGY BROOKS – Sweetheart of Song

PEGGY BROOKS – Sweetheart of Song

  © Valda Low Peggy Brooks was born Jean Linda Switzer in 1912 Footscray, Vic, to Henry Andrew Switzer and Emily Jean McCubbin, (known as Harry and Emma). She studied toe, ballet, and tap dancing with Jennie Brenan in Melbourne, Her first known foray into the...
There’s a Fire! [lyrics]

There’s a Fire! [lyrics]

There’s a grey black smoke column Rising over Valley Heights’ way Heralding A warning on this heat-oppressed day. And the birds and the animals Now they are standing still Statue-like It’s eerie on this heat oppressed day. Around late afternoon The...