I grew up in Castlecrag, that hippie trouble spot of the lower North Shore. Mucked about in Perth, where I was hired by a troupe of travelling actors, presenting plays to the schoolkids around WA. Met the Slim Dusty Show at Lake Grace (Google it, Mate!), where I recognised Australian Country Music as local folk music, which I had been singing in Perth coffee shops. I listened and heard 3 chords and honesty, with great story-telling and considered melody; what more could a person want?
Later, battled through Non-Hodgkins Lymphoma with the help of my sisters, then Joined Northside in 2005 as a clerk, eventually graduated to my stand-in Station Manager.
But my wife was offered a job in Taree, so we escaped to a tree change on 10 acres with a creek at the bottom of the land. Grew our own eggs, fruit, vegetables and meat – yep, we watched the calves being borne, fed them to maturity and killed them and ate them.
Finally, fully retired and back in Sydney, re-joined Northside Radio and, with the death of our loved Georgie Cadwallader, was offered the time slot that Smokey Dawson had at 2NSB – the last station Smokey originated his nationally broadcast show.
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Playlists
Time
Title
Artist
09:08
It Sure Is Monday
Mark Chesnutt
09:09
Gentle On My Mind
Tammy Wynette
09:13
Amarillo
Alan Jackson
09:17
Backwoods Barbie
Dolly Parton
09:20
Star of The Show
David Francis
09:23
Comeback Queens
Amber Lawrence
09:26
Think Of Me (When You're Lonely)
The Mavericks
09:28
Won't Be Lonely Long
LeAnn Rimes
09:32
Port Of Lonely Hearts re-recording
Cash, Johnny
09:34
Seven Lonely Days - Original Mix
Patsy Cline
09:37
Aussie Girls
Graeme Connors
09:42
Fat Bottom Girls
Adam Brand & The Outlaws
09:45
Girls' Night Out
Gina Jefferys
09:48
Country Girls
Lee Kernaghan
09:52
Good Girls Gonna Go Bad
Sandra Humphries
09:54
Can't Stop Thinkin About Girls
Crakajak (Duet with Magnificant 7)
09:58
Girl's of '75
Jayne Denham
10:03
Funky Garage A
Jay Michaels, Tom Toomey
10:03
Listen to the Words
Luke O'Shea & Medicine Wheel
10:08
Skin
Allan Caswell
10:19
Listen to the Children
Isla Grant
10:23
Center Of The Universe
Eagles
10:27
The Truck Got Stuck Talkin' Blues (featuring Ramblin' Jack E
Corb Lund
10:33
Grew up 'Round Trucks
Jayne Denham
10:36
Chickin Lights and Chrome
Jesse Watson
10:39
Eighteen Wheels and a Dozen Roses
Kathy Mattea
10:43
Mate I'm Feelin' Lucky
Jeff Brown
10:48
Convoy
C.W. McCall
10:52
Men In Trucks
Melinda Schneider
10:55
I'll Be Home Soon
Sara Storer
11:00
Buckle Hits the Floor
Magnificent Seven
11:03
Star of The Show
David Francis
11:05
California Girls
Gretchen Wilson
11:08
Girls Women and Ladies
Ollie Austin
11:11
Girls Like Me
Kellie Pickler
11:15
The Bluebell Man
Charlie Landsborough
11:22
Naked Women And Beer
Hank Williams, Jr.
11:25
God Created Woman
Anita Cochran
11:29
I Want My Rib Back
Adam Harvey
11:32
Single Women
Dolly Parton
11:38
Fist City
Loretta Lynn
11:42
A Woman In Love
Frankie Laine
11:45
Girls With Guitars
Wynonna Judd
11:48
I Like Girls That Drink Beer
Toby Keith
11:54
To All the Girls I've Loved Before
Julio Iglesias
11:58
A Year or Three
Simply Bushed
Time
Title
Artist
09:05
You To Me Are Everything
Real Thing
09:08
The Power Of Love
Huey Lewis And The News
09:12
Hard To Say I'm Sorry
Chicago
09:15
Knock On Wood / Ash 48
Amii Stewart
09:21
In The Year 2525 (Exordium & Terminus)
Zager & Evans
09:24
Shout to the Top!
The Style Council
09:28
Country Music's Coming To Town
Troy Cassar-Daley
09:33
Let's Call It A Day Today
Tammy Wynette
09:36
All American Country Boy
Alan Jackson
09:41
Star of The Show
David Francis
09:42
I Was Country When Country Wasn't Cool
Barbara Mandrell
09:46
Branded Man
Merle Haggard
09:49
Broken Road
Melodie Crittenden
09:52
Wasted Time
Eagles
09:57
All I Can Do (Single (2002 Remaster))
Dolly Parton
10:01
Mambo Da Capo
Gerhard Narholz
10:01
Call Me The Breeze
The Mavericks
10:05
Crazy
Patsy Cline
10:09
A Friend To Me
Garth Brooks
10:12
All The Women I Am
Reba McEntire
10:20
Maneuver Line
Tomoyoshi Nakayama
10:22
Hey Good Lookin'
Hank Williams
10:26
Lovesick Blues (Remastered)
Hank Williams
10:29
The Most Beautiful Girl In the World
Charlie Rich
10:32
Daytime Friends
Bonnie Tyler
10:36
Girlfriend
Bill Kirchen
10:42
Rollin' With the Flow
Charlie Rich
10:45
This Wonderful Land
Isla Grant
10:49
Facebook Friends (Bonus Track)
Brad Paisley
10:57
An Old Friend of Mine
Joe Nichols
11:03
You Can't Make Old Friends
Kenny Rogers
11:11
I'm the Only Hell My Mama Ever Raised
Willie Nelson
11:16
Wives and Girlfriends (Digital Single)
Willie Nelson
11:21
Good Friends
Reba McEntire
11:23
Fool For Love (Album Version)
Marty Stuart
11:28
These Foolish Things
Bob Dylan
11:32
(Now and Then There's) A Fool Such as I
Elvis Presley
11:34
Fool's Hall Of Fame
Johnny Cash
11:41
The Geebung Polo Club
Jack Thompson
11:45
The Outback Club
Lee Kernaghan
11:52
Where the Outback Starts
John O'Dea
11:58
Good Luck "N' Good Truckin' Tonite
Dale Watson
11:59
A Year or Three
Simply Bushed
Time
Title
Artist
09:07
It Sure Is Monday
Mark Chesnutt
09:08
Skin
Allan Caswell
09:12
Real Smooth Cowboy
Jetty Road
09:17
Blame It On Eve
Adam Brand
09:22
A Little Bit Flirty
Alice Benfer
09:26
In My Boots
Markus Meier
09:33
True Love Is A Golden Ring
Alan Jackson
09:37
Our Time Is Now
Amy Grant, Carole King
09:43
The Twelfth of Never
Charlie Landsborough
09:44
What Colour is the Wind
Charlie Landsborough
09:47
Womanhood
Tammy Wynette, George Jones
09:49
Is Anybody Goin' To San Antone
Dolly Parton
09:52
Good Girl
Carrie Underwood
09:55
Running Through The Rain
Chris LeDoux
09:59
Rain On A Tin Roof
Tania Kernaghan
10:06
I Shall Be Free
Bob Dylan
10:11
California Dreamin'
The Seekers
10:14
Blue Tail Fly
Lead Belly
10:17
Let That Pony Run
Pam Tillis
10:21
Tipperary Girl
Daniel O'Donnell
10:27
TOP END TOUGH
Tom Curtain/Luke O'Shea/Sara Storer
10:31
I'll Be Home Soon
Sara Storer
10:36
Convoy
C.W. McCall
10:41
Star of The Show
David Francis
10:42
Ole Slew Foot
Porter Wagoner
10:44
Too Many Secrets
Patsy Cline
10:49
American Honey
Lady Antebellum, Hillary Lindsey, Cary Barlowe, Shane Stevens