Slim Dusty 'Winter Winds' 45RPM

Born in 1927 in Kempsey, New South Wales, Australia Slim gained world wide fame with his 1957 recording A Pub With No Beer and the following year with The Answer To A Pub With No Beer. Winter Winds was the b side to The Answer..... . He was invited to sing at the Grand Ole Opry in 1997 recognising 50 years in country music and sang Waltzing Matilda at the closing ceremony of the Sydney Olympics in 2000. He was awarded the MBE in 1970 and the AO in 1998. Slim died in 2003 aged 76

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[MysteriesOfNox]

ok to all the people having a go at me, i was wrong, my uncle did not write it, my mate shorty did. i got my information mixed up somewhere along the way, sorry guys

[roseanne74]

@bullnbarley Trumby is on here somewhere - do a search for it ... I saw it in the side bar earlier today

[roseanne74]

@roseanne74 PS - for those not in the know, Edwin Haberfield is Shorty Ranger and David Gordon Kirkpatrick ... well you can work that one out to be the old S.D.

[roseanne74]

@MysteriesOfNox That's an absolute lie as this was written in 1942 by Edwin Haberfield. It was later recorded by David Gordon Kirkpatrick in 1957. Lindsay Butler was born in 1941 - he'd have to be a pretty bloody clever baby to write Winter Winds at the age of one year old!!

[roseanne74]

@MysteriesOfNox Bollocks

[roseanne74]

@jimoneill01 Yes Butz did a cover version of it - but you're right ... this riff was the one and only Bazza. Butz did a recording of Buddy Williams' Over Hilltop and Hollow, and right at the end of it he puts in the riff from Winter Winds. I love both songs and am searching for Butz's version of Over Hilltop and Hollow. Macca used to play it pretty regularly on Australia All Over in the early 90's.

[jimoneill01]

This song was written by Shorty Ranger, and was recorded by Slim in 1957. It featured Barry Thornton on the lead guitar, and it was this guitar break that set the standard for bush ballad lead guitar for many years.

Lindsey Butler had nothing to do with this original recording (he would have been 12 years old at the time!), however he may have done a instrumental version of it in recent times.

It was, still is, and always will be, a bloody good bush ballad!

[nowlistenere]

well.slim as a young'en used to muck around playin music with my grand dad old mr Kyle,you'll see his fiddle on one of  slims albums.songs my father sang to me...anyways...get some country up ya's,sure as hell .it ain;'t country no more.

[MysteriesOfNox]

@MysteriesOfNox and he was actually Slim's Guitarist for quite awhile.

[OldTimeyGraeme]

Bloody good on ya Francis McNally !!! u must be a top person with fine tastes to do that mate !!! i love slim too