 | | Gina & Reg Briskey KooroongarraPrice: $0.00 NOT CURRENTLY AVAILABLE Released November 2002 and featuring the popular title track "Kooroongarra" which was released as a single on the A.B.B.A "Bush Balladeers Vol 4". The title track is a song written about a ghost town in South East Queensland called Kooroongarra. Like so many early townships, it was once a thriving community, but now the streets lie silent and still. Merle (Reg's wife of 50 years) was born there in a farmhouse at Koonangarra, and it holds many fond memories for her and Reg. Merle wrote at least five of the tracks for the album, a talent which has only just emerged. It is wonderful to see such great people beginning a career at such a late stage in their lives. Reg first picked the guitar up at sixty-nine and has taken lessons from Hughie Stone, a local who is a popular identity at the Tamworth Country Music festival.
Track Listing: 1. Fire of Gidgee Coals (S.Coster), 2. Kooroongarra (M. Briskey/H.Stone), 3. Drovers Boy (Ted Egan), 4. North We Go (M.Briskey/H.Stone), 5. Somethings a Man Just Can't Fight (S.Coster), 6. When Will the Gullies Run Again (M.Briskey/G.Doyle), 7. Sitting On My Verandah (M.Briskey/H.Stone), 8. Anakie (M.Briskey/H.Stone), 9. A Bushman Can't Survive (John Williamson), 10. MacQuarie River (H.Stone/D.Hynde), 11. Power of the Land (K.Chambers), 12. Daddies Girl (H.Stone), 13. Care of the Blues (Millar.Stevenson), 14. Crazy (W.Nelson), 15. How Great Thou Art (S.K.Hine).
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