Lazy Harry Release Date: 01 March 2010 Format: CD ISBN: lz3
All these beautiful melodies form a deep part of our Australian Heritage and each one strikes a familiar chord in our hearts. This album is simply the beautiful music of our wide brown land.
All these melodies are arranged and performed by Lazy Harry. "Edward Kelly" is his own composition. Enjoy the beautiful sounds of his Alex Steinback grand piano, his hand-made acoustic guitar, the accordion, harmonica and the mandolin.
Tracks on this CD
1. Waltzing Matilda - a beautiful performance of our national melody
2. Morton Bay - is a convict lament of unsurpassed beauty.
3. Wild Colonial Boy - a celebration of the romantic myth of the daring highwaymen.
4. Overlanders - The work of the bullock teams and the drover's lonely life on the dusty road
5. Botany Bay - A hopeful sea shanty which came with the First Fleet in 1788.
6. Edward Kelly - This tune is a tribute to Ned Kelly, Australia's most famous outlaw.
7. Click Go The Shears - a melody inspiring thoughts of the shearers, the intense heat, the back-breaking work and the old Australia long since gone.
8. Dying Stockmen - This beautiful lament is a heart-felt tribute to a stockman's last wish to become part of the bush forever.
9. Advance Australia Fair - Australia's National Anthem.