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Obama’s Aussie mixtape
Mr Obama will be able to check out Australian country favourites Troy Cassar-Daley and Kasey Chambers on his new player - as well as a genre-hopping mix of tunes by Jimmy Barnes, Kylie Minogue, Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu and Midnight Oil. The music, selected by the PM's staff, was presented to the US President during Ms Gillard's visit to Washington.
Here's the full list – should it feature more country artists? Tell us what you think...
Jimmy Barnes
Red Hot
That's Right
Hallelujah (I Love Her So)
That's How It Is
Keep a Knocking
Reconsider Me
Shake Rattle & Roll
Rockin Pneumonia
A Fool In Love
You Can't Judge a Book
I was Made to Love Her
Young Blood
My Baby Just Cares for Me
Paul Kelly
To Her Door
From Little Things Big Things Grow
Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu
Bapa
Wirrpangu
Djarimirri
Temper Trap
Sweet Disposition
Love Lost
Panics
Don't Fight It
Dan Kelly and The Alpha Males
Star of the Sea
Hilltop Hoods
The Hard Road
The Nosebleed Section
John Butler Trio
Funky Tonight
One Way Road Used to Get High
Angus and Julia Stone
Big Jet Plane
The Herd
I Was Only 19
Ian Moss
Good Times
Standing in The Shadows of Love
Dan Sultan
Your Love is like a Song
INXS
Never Tear Us Apart
Need You Tonight
The Loved One
New Sensation
Xavier Rudd
Let Me Be
Better People
Midnight Oil
King of the Mountain
Blue Sky Mine
Beds are Burning
Short Memory
Nick Cave (and the Bad Seeds)
Into My Arms
Troy Cassar Daly
Bow River
Kasey Chambers
Pony
The Captain
Jessica Mauboy
Burn
Time After Time
Crowded House
Now We're Getting Somewhere
World Where You Live
Weather With You
Something So Strong
When You Come
Four Seasons in One Day
Distant Sun
Sister Madly
Better Be Home Soon
Mean to Me
It's Only Natural
Fall At Your Feet
Don't Dream It's Over
Kylie Minogue
Confide in Me
Where the Wild Roses Grow
Megan Washington
How to Tame Lions
Sunday Best
Bliss n Eso
Bullet and a Target
Yothu Yindi
Treaty
Djapana
Dots on the Shells
Cat Empire
Hello
Days Like These
Hunters and Collectors
Holy Grail Throw Your Arms Around Me
When the River Runs Dry
Do You See What I See
Augie March
One Crowded Hour
Janelle
Missy Higgins
Scar
The Special Two
Steer
James Morrison
Chameleon
God Bless the Child (duo with Deni Hines)
St Louis Blues
St James Infirmary Blues
Powderfinger
These Days
Burn Your Name
My Happiness
Baby I've Got You on My Mind
Lost and Running
Bernard Fanning
Wish You Well
Songbird
Watch Over Me
Thrill Is Gone
Wash Me Clean
Which Way Home?
Hope and Validation
Down to the River
Yesterday's Gone
Not Finished Just Yet
The Strangest Thing
Sleeping Rough
Further Down the River
Believe
Clare Bowditch
Message to My Girl
Modern Day Addiction
Guy Sebastian
Like It Like That
In the Midnight Hour
(Sittin On) The Dock of the Bay
Living End
All Torn Down
White Noise
Silverchair
Straight Lines
Tomorrow
Ana’s Song (Open Fire)
Wolfmother
Joker and the Thief
Woman
Tame Impala
Solitude is Bliss
Eddy Current Suppression Ring
Which Way to Go
Tina Arena
Chains
To Sir With Love
Savage Garden
To the Moon & Back
Affirmation
Lior
This Old Love
Tumbling into the Dawn
Christine Anu
Island Home
Sunshine On a Rainy Day
No Woman No Cry
GANGgajang
Sounds of Then
The Go-Betweens
Streets of Your Town
Archie Roach and Ruby Hunter
Little by Little
Coolman Baby
Nagarrindjeri Woman
Archie Roach
John Pat
Too Many Bridges
Liyarn Ngarn
The Waifs
London Still
Lighthouse
Bridal Train
Renee Geyer
Heading in the Right Direction
Stares and Whispers
It's a Man's Man's World
Saltwater Band
Compass
Djarridjarri-Blue Flag
Arafura Sea
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Troy Cassar-Daley (born 18 May 1969) is a multi-award-winning country musician from New South Wales, Australia. He released his first EP, Dream Out Loud, in 1994 and was nominated for his first Golden Guitar for Best Male Vocalist the same year. He has won many awards, including the 1995 ARIA Award for Best Country Record, 1996 Best Male Vocal Award at the Country Music Awards in Tamworth, Best...
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Comments
No, country music was not forgotten but where was our one-time Australian of the Year Lee Kernaghan? Slim Dusty - the greatest of all CM performers? I respect the artists featured and yes, they are great Australian country music performers. While Jimmy Barnes, Crowded House and possibly Bernard Fanning are also remarkable musicians, why the large percentage of inclusions? Oh and were our artists paid for the use of there works on this CD or was it a pirated version?
Hi Deb,
You've raised some good points. There's certainly a lot of great Australian country talent missing from the list including Lee Kernaghan. Good to see the Neil Murray penned 'Island Home' get a mention though. Perhaps a few less tracks from some of the artists could have created space for the great Slim Dusty and others. But isn't that the same problem with all mixtapes? Once you've made it, you find that one song (or several!) that should have been included! I wonder if the PM staffer who compiled the list included a detailed note on the choices? Perhaps they should have got some tips from the mixtape master and author Nick Hornby, who wrote a whole book about mixtapes!
I'm disgusted that on Australia All Over, Ian McNamara's comments on this tape were along the lines of that he didn't think the "politically correct" artists, Paul Kelly and Peter Garrett should be on this tape. The works of these artists maybe politically palatable to the Rudd/Gillard governments. However I can think of a number of Paul Kelly tracks that John Howard would be likely to label as the "black-armband view of Australian history".
Having seen the full listing of the compilation now, I'm even more incensed that Macca chose to single these two artists, when they only represent six tracks out of the total. I've cut out several of the Jimmy Barnes tracks to make room for:
John Williamson (Galleries of Pink and Gray Galahs, Raining on the Rock, The Drover's Boy and others...)
Sara Storer
Gina Jeffries
The Pigram Brothers
amongst others (and I second the nominations for Lee Kernaghan and Slim Dusty)
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