Slim Dusty Pubs Trucks & Plains

Price: $29.95

It is not every year that we have the opportunity to celebrate the recording of a truly treasured song that can be called an Australian Anthem. But in 2007 we can. This year the Australian Music Industry and EMI Australia commemorates the 50th Anniversary of the recording of Australia’s first ever hit single A Pub With No Beer. This iconic 1957 recording by Slim Dusty, written by Slim’s mate Gordon Parsons was not only the first ever #1 hit by an Australian artist but also Australia’s first ever international hit single (In England, it entered the top three in January 1959 and Internationally sold well over half a million - staggering figures for 1959). It was also Australia’s first ever Gold Record and will always be the only Gold 78 rpm disc to have ever been presented to any Australian artist. EMI Australia release this 3 CD, 60 song set PUBS TRUCKS AND PLAINS. The set not only commemorates A Pub With No Beer and Slim’s many beer related songs (including Slim’s other #1 Hit single Duncan) but also includes the songs, over two other themes that Slim also made his own and served him so well over his 60 year career…and his 7 million recording sales.

CD 1 – PUBS
1. A Pub with No Beer (1979 version) 2. Born with an Endless Thirst 3. The Bloke Who Serves The Beer 4. Duncan 5. Must’ve Been a Hell Of A Party 6. Three Rivers Hotel 7. Wobbly Boot (with Rolf Harris) 8. He’s A Good Bloke When He’s Sober 9. Drowning My Blues 10. Brown Bottle Blues 11. Old Bush Pub 12. Callaghan’s Hotel 13. Pay Day at the Pub 14. Joe Maguire’s Pub 15. Nebo Pub 16. Finney’s Home Brew 17. Little Old One Horse Pub 18. The Pub Rock 19. The Answer To The Pub with No Beer 20. A Pub with No Beer (Original 1957 Version)

CD 2 …TRUCKS
1. No Good Truckin’ Man 2. Bent-Axle Bob 3. Under The Spell of Highway One 4. Pushin’ Time 5. Long Black Road 6. Names Upon The Wall 7. Gotta Keep Movin’ 8 Truckin’s in My Blood 9. Dieseline Dreams 10. The Lady is a Truckie 11. Rolling Down the Road 12. Kelly’s Offsider 13. Star Trucker 14. Highway One 15. Something in the Piliga 16.Trucks, Tarps & Trailers 17. Sally (the Girl on Channel 8) 18. Mechanised Swaggie 19. Lights on the Hill 20. One Truckie’s Epitaph

CD3 - PLAINS
1. Hard Hard Country 2. Back To The Old Saltbush Plains 3. When the Rain Tumbles Down in July 4. Land of No Second Chance 5. The Birdsville Track 6. Plains of Peppimenarti 7. By a Fire of Gidgee Coal 8. Things I See Around Me 9. Indian Pacific 10. Cattlemen from the High Plains 11. Things Are Not The Same On The Land 12. Walk a Country Mile 13. Cunnamulla Fella 14. Keela Valley 15. Paddy William 16. The Drovers are Back 17. Trumby 18. Gumtrees by the Roadway 19. The Man from Snowy River 20. End of the Bitumen