In 1937, on a small dairy farm at Nulla Nulla Creek (three hundred miles north of Sydney), an eleven-year-old boy, David Gordon Kirkpatrick, decided to change his name and become a country music star. The Slim Dusty Movie is 'the story of a man who believed in a dream that he had and the woman who stands by his side. The war years when a young boy's hopes of a recording contract are almost dashed forever, the courting days when he meets Joy McKean, the woman he will later marry, the radio shows of Sydney in the late 1940s, the travelling carnival sideshows of the 1950s - the good times, the bad times. For forty years he's been on the road.' (Source: The Slim Dusty Movie soundtrack liner notes)
Filmed over 20,000 kilometres in a variety of rural towns, truck stops, highways, bush tracks, Aboriginal tribal lands, rodeo arenas, and concert halls, the fim combines historical recreations, concert performances, and candid on-the-road footage of Slim Dusty, his family, musicians, and road crew. The biographical aspect celebrates fifty years in the life of a legendary Australian country music artist. The live performances include some of his greatest hits, including 'Where Country Is,' 'Walk a Country Mile,' 'When the Rain Tumbles Down in July,' 'How Will I Go with Him, Mate?,' 'Pushin' Time,' 'Cunnamulla Feller,' 'Lights on the Hill,' and the all-time classic 'The Pub with No Beer.'
Musical performances and spoken extracts from the film are included on the 1984 original motion picture soundtrack, released by EMI Records Australia.
The Slim Dusty Movie : Across Australia
David Parker
(illustrator),
Dingley
:
Budget Books
,
1984
Z1652693
1984
single work
biography
travel
The text and stills photography that comprise this book are taken from the 1984 biographical motion picture The Slim Dusty Story. The film includes footage from the Australia-wide tour (invariably an annual event) that Dusty undertook while making the film.
