Lee Kernaghan & Smoky Dawson - Days Of Old Khancoban

[pyrofella]

This video has been flaged by Youtube as being in breach of copyright.....go figure..

Every video on my channel was done, either as support of Australian Country Music and/or a historic example of the same....I make no money from them... and where applicable...I note where the CD can be purchased....I am hardly in breech of copyright as such.

[roseanne74]

Just come home from a trip down south .... and we drove from west to east over the Snowy Mountains through Corryong, stopping to have lunch at Khancoban, down to Tom Groggin and on to Thredbo and Jindabyne ... I've always loved this song, but it

means more to me, now that I've seen where they're singing about

[pyrofella]

@roseanne74 I have not yet had the chance to visit that area...and in truth ....it's not all that far from where I live...

I plan to do a couple of trips to the south next year..... I will check out the Khancoban area for sure....

Thanks for dropping by...Cheers

[roseanne74]

@pyrofella Make sure you stop in Corryong too ... Jack Riley (THE Man From Snowy River) is buried in the Corryong Cemetery and they have a statue erected in memorial of him beside the Information Centre in the main street.

[pyrofella]

Respond to this video...Will do for sure.... The Man from Snowy River is the best piece of descriptive Aussie poetry ever written in my opinion.... I'd like to see the statue of Jack.

I have been looking up info on the area... looks good.... Cheers 

[c0untryfusion]

My good friend Mel Sommers here in Newcastle, was good friends with old Smokey and Dot through which shone the light of his life... I wish I could have met old Smokey, he seemed like a character... I'm recording a couple of his songs coming up in an album with Rod McCormack, hope it does him justice :-)... This is a fantastic songs also, well done!!

[pyrofella]

Thanks Trevor... It is one of the best songs I have heard .... I placed it on YouTube as a gesture of respect and appreciation....

Smoky was a great Australian and is sadly missed.

Thanks

[jag158]

In 1989 Smoky and I recorded the original version of this song.. and we won our first Golden Guitar with it.

It take me back to the days of my youth as a stockman in Tom Groggin Station down the Alpine Way from Khancoban.

Smoky was my friend and mentor, he was one of the finest writers of evocative bush verse .. the real McCoy.

I have recorded my own version and tribute to Smoky and,, our days in old Khancoban! TREVOR KNIGHT

[jag158]

In 1989 Smoky and I recorded the original version of this song.. and we won our first Golden Guitar with it.

It take me back to the days of my youth as a stockman in Tom Groggin Station down the Alpine Way from Khancoban.

Smoky was my friend and mentor, he was one of the finest writers of evocative bush verse .. the real McCoy.

I have recorded my own version and tribute to Smoky and,, our days in old Khancoban! TREVOR KNIGHT