Anne Kirkpatrick "Hold's Too Strong"

Aussie Country :Singer songwriter Anne Kirkpatrick seemed destined to be a performer, being the daughter of country music legends Slim Dusty and Joy McKean.

During a career that started at the age of ten in her parents' travelling country show, Anne Kirkpatrick has been described as "a true revolutionary" and "the godmother of Australian new country".

Her 1991 release Out Of The Blue was heralded as a watershed album in Australian country music and her latest album Showman's Daughter was declared by Bruce Elder of the Sydney Morning Herald to be "a remarkable achievement that keeps Australian country music in the hands of the nation's first family"

There's been myriad accolades along her way six Golden Guitars, a couple of Mo Awards and, honoring Out Of The Blue as Best Country album, a coveted ARIA Award (in a year when she edged out the top male stars of the day Keith Urban, James Blundell, Graeme Connors and John Williamson). Early this year she became the 39th artist (since the great Tex Morton in1976) to have been listed on the Australasian Country Music Roll of Renown.

With this new Annethology release, one is held in thrall by the artistry of a woman with an innate understanding of the essential qualities which can render truly great country music emotionally overwhelming.
Latest Album Annethology an album 36 years in the making!

Almost forty years after cutting a first, tentative solo single, three dozen years after crafting an acclaimed debut album, Anne Kirkpatrick, has painstakingly drawn together, as Annethology, the essence of her impressive and admirable body of work - a long-awaited Best Of ranging across a wide musical terrain. Selected from her 13 album releases from 1974 through to 2010 Annethology will be released on the family label Nulla Records on August 28.

A recording artist since the age of 12 Anne, daughter of revered Australian country music pioneers Slim Dusty and Joy McKean, staked her claim early as a woman of distinctive voice. Her albums, beginning with 1974's earthy Down Home and proceeding through to what music historian Glenn A. Baker described as the creatively courageous Showman's Daughter album (of recent times) have demonstrated a gradual, comfortable evolution and her own light on the hill to aspiring female country performers.

The natural tones and the empathy for the material, both old and new, which consistently astounded reviewers and observers, was forged in a crucible of fairgrounds, showgrounds, town halls and rodeos over decades of touring as a part of the Dusty Family Show. As far as growing up and learning the ropes Anne recalls "The Slim Dusty Show was a great show in the grand old tradition. Dad's was a music show, but there was also always variety, like a juggler, a whipcracker, a comedian or a strong man (a real one named Samson from Greece!). I graduated to my own spot in the show in my early teens after starting with a song or 2 in my Dad's bracket. Dad and I recorded a series of father daughter duets round this time as well. Because of the family's nomadic lifestyle, David and I later went to boarding school, flying back to join the show every holidays".

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[tuneweaver2]

Wow!  This lady can sing! Great song too.

[latokatn506]

good country done the right way thank's to the Best Aussie DJ

[bramley1001]

A song written by the guys from SALTBUSH , best country band Australia has ever seen , and Slim would agree.

Anne has recorded a number of their songs.

[johnnybaustralia]

Great song. Please checkout some of my original songs for recording:

regards

johnnybaustralia

[oldbark52]

i love all country music but we all miss slim but his music will never die .