Tex Morton The Essential Tex Morton 2CD

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Save $10 in June Born Robert Lane August 30th 1916 in Nelson, NZ. Performed and recorded at the age of 16. Came to Australia in 1932. Pioneered the travelling country show and toured the world. Tex Morton the showman supreme, single handedly established the identity of Australasian country music. Australia’s “Yodelling Boundary Rider”, this amazing man would develop a career and reputation as one of the most exciting and versatile performing artists on any stage in the world. As the first to record original country music in this nation, Tex is renowned as “the father of Australian country music”.

Disc 1

1. Happy Yodeller 2. Swiss Sweetheart 3. Carry Me Back To The Lone Prairie 4. Wrap Me Up In My Stockwhip And Blanket 5. The Wandering Stockman 6. On The Gundagai Line 7. All Set And Saddled 8. The Black Sheep 9. Rocking Alone In An Old Rocking Chair 10. I’m Dreaming Tonight Of The Old Folks 11. Bird In A Guilded Cage 12. Sergeant Small 13. Crime Does Not Pay 14. Travel By Train 15. The Ned Kelly Song 16. I Was There In Old Wyoming

Disc 2
1. Billy Brink The Shearer 2. Aristocrat 3. Beautiful Queensland 4. In The Luggage Van Ahead 5. Mandrake 6. The Good Old Droving Days 7. I’m A Rolling Stone 8. Waitin’ For A Train 9. You And My Old Guitar 10. Rose Of Shenendoah Valley 11. I’ve Known The Truth 12. The Neighbour’s Wife 13. I’ve Got You (Right Out Of My Head) 14. Circus Boy 15. Kiwi Songs 16. Railroad Boomer