Dougie Young Cut A Rug

Tracks 1 to 8 recorded in 1963 64 six previously released by wattle recordings in 1965 tracks 9 10 11 recorded 1969 at walgett nsw tracks 12 13 14 recorded 1979 at sydney nsw.

Dougie young cut a rug.

Dougie young was a singer and songwriter from south west queensland. 8 dougie young cut a rug 1965 9 george bracken blue jean rock 1959 10 candy williams oh lonesome me 1979 11 wilma reading that s how i go for you 1961 12 lionel rose jackson s track 1972 13 auriel andrew truck driving woman 1970 14 col hardy blacktracker 1978 15 lionel rose i thank you 1969. Song information for cut a rug dougie young on allmusic. Tom bob rodd 4 581.

Toby martin of youth group talks about the music and life of indigenous. Songs from these three recordings were released by aiatsis in 1993 as the songs of dougie young young sang cut a rug a drinking song from his troubadour days in the wilcannia in the 50s and 60s in both the sbs documentary and accompanying cd buried country. Dougie young sings cut a rug a drinking song from his troubadour days in the wilcannia in the 50s and 60s. The story of aboriginal country music.

Young had a white father and a gurnu mother. These circumstances were the theme of young s first composition cut a rug pass him the flagon and they say it s a crime followed about 1960. Young sang cut a rug a drinking song from his troubadour days in wilcannia in the 1950s and 1960s in both the sbs documentary and accompanying cd buried country. The recording was made in wilcannia in 1964 where young was living in the aboriginal community on the edge of town by anthropologist dr jeremy beckett and released by.

The story of aboriginal country music. Dougie young was born of mixed parentage in cunnamulla in the early 1930s and worked as a stockman in southern queensland while learning guitar and developing his songwriting.