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In Australia, Irish music
and the Kelly legend go hand in hand, and so they should.
Even as Ned's Gang roamed northern Victoria, ballads
were being sung in pubs all around the bush. Today,
songs like Poor Ned by Redgum and If Ned Kelly Were
King by Midnight Oil have kept the story alive. |
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Soundtrack
Ned
Kelly (2003)
Germany’s
Klaus Badelt, K-19: The Widowmaker; The
Recruit, composed the original score for Ned
Kelly — a collection of beautiful and
dramatic compositions that reflect the life of the
Australian outlaw. Badelt’s work bears the
influence of his interest in modern music, but is
rooted in his passion for the classical masters.
The soundtrack also features two songs from Powderfinger’s
Bernard Fanning, who also worked on Gregor Jordan’s
feature Two Hands. The soundtrack is available
Australia wide from April 7, 2003 at Sanity
Entertainment Stores.
Tracks
include:
Shelter For My Soul Bernard
Fanning
The Light Klaus
Badelt
Father Klaus Badelt
Moreton Bay Bernard
Fanning |
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Soundtrack
Ned
Kelly (1970)
This
is one great CD. With vocals from Waylon Jennings,
Kris Kristofferson and even a track by Mick Jagger,
the soundtrack features sixteen tracks including
dialogue from the not so great film. As a bonus the
deluxe edition of Ned Kelly offers a multimedia
clip from the 1970 movie which can be played on either
a Mac or PC. It is worth buying the CD just for the
fold out cover. Mick Jagger adds a cappella version
of Wild Colonial Boy to the soundtrack.
Featuring words and music by acclaimed author and
poet Shel Silverstein, the soundtrack is very western
sounding with twangy bawdy ballads and hoedown
music. Check out a sample from the soundtrack below
saved as .wav files. And if you are after your own
copy start your search at iMusic.
01.
Ned Kelly Waylon Jennings
02. Such is Life
03. The Wild Colonial
Boy Mick Jagger
04. What Do You Mean
I Dont Like
05. Son of a Scoundrel Kris Kristofferson
06. Shadow of the
Gallows Waylon Jennings
07. If I Ever Kill
08. Lonigans Widow Waylon Jennings
09. Stoney Cold Ground Kris Kristofferson
10. Ladies
and Gentlemen
11. The
Kellys Keep Comin Kris Kristofferson
12. Ranchin in the Evenin Waylon
Jennings
13. Say
14. Blame it on the
Kellys Waylon Jennings
15. Pleasures of a
Sunday Afternoon Waylon Jennings
16. Hey Ned Tom Ghent |
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Merv Webster
It’s Tough To Be a Kelly
Available from users.tpg.com.au/thegrey
YouTube videos youtube.com/user/bushballader
Multi Award winning Ballad writer Merv Webster brings you a compilation of nine original ballads along with tracks of Australian bush verse by his multi award winning poet wife, Chris Webster. Merv expresses his thanks to Buddy Thomson of Outback Studios for engineering the album It’s Time To Stop The Rumours Lads and playing rhythm & electric guitar along with percussion. Lynne Bennett for harmonies, bass guitar and percussion. His thanks also to Buddy Thomson for engineering The Storyteller and playing rhythm guitar, also Lynne Bennett for playing bass and backing vocals. Kelvin Nolan for playing electric rhythm and lead guitar. |
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Bushwackers
Ned
Available
from bushwackers.com.au
Contact rogerc@pnc.com.au or
02 4751 7099
In
November 1980 the Bushwackers were an integral part
of the Ned Kelly Centenary Festival in Winton, Victoria.
For three days many legendary artists, including
Redgum, and Johnny Chester, came together to celebrate
the life and times of Ned Kelly. The Bushwackers
produced this album as a celebration and acknowledgement
of the special place Ned holds in the hearts of all
Australians. Songwriters who contributed to this
collection include John Williamson, Ted Egan, Tim
Freedman, Shane Howard, and many anonymous authors
who first sang and wrote of Ned.
01.
Kelly In Our Hearts Roger Corbett
02. Devils Boots John Williamson
03. His Story The Bushwackers
04. Glenrowan, Farewell traditional
05. Ned Kelly Was
Born In A Ramshackle Hut traditional
06. Beechworth Gaol Shel Silverstein
07. Poor Ned Trevor Lucas
08. Kate Kelly Tim Freedman
09. Poor Ned Kelly Smilin Billy Blinkhorn
10. Stringybark
Creek traditional
11. Our Ned Kelly Grant and Lee Millar
12. Farewell Dan
and Edward Kelly traditional
13. Such Is Life Ted Egan
14. Heart Of Australia Roger Corbett |
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Various Artists
100
Years a Hero
Available
from ironbark.info
PO Box 3603 Weston Creek ACT 2611
This
four track EP, including a four page song book, was
released to celebrate the Ned Kelly Centenary Festival
held at Winton, Victoria on November 8 and 9, 1980.
Produced in 2000 by Bail Records the song list includes:
01. The
Kellys Wouldn't Run Carl Myriad
02. Stringybark
Creek The Bushwackers
Band
03. Poor Ned Redgum
04. Ned Kellys Letter Bluetongue |
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Manjo
Jam
Roaring Jelly
One such Irish band banging out a tune is Northern
Queensland's Mango Jam, who have released a CD titled Roaring Jelly.
Track one from this collection of modern and traditional
tunes is none other than Poor
Ned.
Here is a review of that song by none other than
singer / songwriter John Schumann from Redgum:
"It's
a great compliment when other musicians record
your own compositions or songs you have made famous.
This is especially the case with Mango Jam's version
of Poor Ned. The new CD, Roaring
Jelly, declares
Mango Jam to be very fine band - clever harmonies,
tight but interestingly idiosyncratic rhythmic
structures and above all, energy and passion.
Their
version of Poor
Ned is a case in point. I know
how difficult it is to capture enthusiastic, passionate
performances on record. With Poor
Ned, Mango Jam
has succeeded in doing just this. I love the harmonies,
I love the lazy meandering fiddle part and I love
their different approach to the verse by J S Manifold.
Redgum made Poor
Ned a folk standard. Mango Jam
have taken it and recreated their own version in
their own voice. Ned would have been very proud.
I know I am".
POOR
NED by Mango Jam is
available for download as a .wav file. The
file size is only 1.3 meg and well worth
the download time. Once you have sampled
this track feel free to check out the Mango
Jam website and see the band in all
their glory. More importantly, you can order
their new CD! |
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John
Memery
Granite, Guns and Gold
From the heart of Kelly Country comes a CD full
of soul. Actually its a mixture of Irish folk and country
music, with a focus on stories concerning the Kelly
Gang and their kin. All 11 tracks were written and
performed by John Memery A brief description of three
songs lifted from the CD jacket include:
THOSE
DINGO EYES Ned and Joe speak from the grave.
Most of these words are from the Jerilderie and
the Cameron letters with a few of my own thrown
in. These two had a remarkable gift for language;
a very Irish, vituperative gift to be sure but
no less remarkable for that. The more I read about
these two, the more I admire them.
FOUR
BRAVE MEN Bushrangers used to hold people up
for their watches and wallets. Not the Kelly Gang.
Here they took over an entire town. Had the locals
wanted to, they could easily have shot it out with
them. Instead, they joined them for a drink in
the Royal Mail Hotel. The boys actually managed
to impress even the bank manager, the police and
the Reverend Gribble!
KATE
KELLYS FAREWELL A strange farewell
because she is saying, Hello, rather
than Goodbye. The wild-child dead,
aged thirty-nine, found drowned in a billabong
off the Lachlan River. It may well have been
in defending Kate from the attentions of Fitzpatrick
that the real trouble started for the Kellys.
Now here she is by that billabong; she had borne
five children and she drank a lot. There had
indeed been lots of rain.
To
learn more about John Memery look no further than Tamara
Whitsed's report. If you would like to listen
to one of John's tracks Kate Kelly's Farewell click
on the link above to download a .wav file. It is
2.29 meg and worth every k. Granite,
Guns and Gold is available by phoning 03 5728
2032 or via email
at johnmemery@hotmail.com |
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Bob
Browne and Kelly's Heroes
Stand And Deliver
Fresh
from the studios of Pinewood Records at Emu Plains
in New South Wales comes a CD well worth adding to
your Country n Western collection. Entitled
Stand And Deliver, the album consists of Australian
bushranger material including a song about Ned Kelly
and a great picture of his Iron Mask astride a map
of Australia on the cover.
The
full track listing is as follows: Bushranger; The
Overlanders; Ride The Wild Stallion; Nearly Forty;
The Lachlan Tigers; Brisbane Ladies; Freedom On The
Wallaby; Ned Kelly; A Gold Digger's Life; Dancing
Lady; Fair Dinkum I Love Ya; They Dig Gold Don't
They
NED
KELLY is track eight from the Bob Browne
and Kellys Heroes album Stand
And Deliver.
You can listen to a sample from the song saved
as a 108k .wav file. The album is available for
purchase in LP or cassette ($AUS10.00 each) or
CD ($AUS15.00) online at Pinewood
Records. |
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| TEACHING
HISTORY |
While not everyone wants to read about Ned Kelly or the ANZACs or
even The Great Depression, we hope they
want to learn something about
Australian History. From the ex-Prime Minister
John Howard to a confused ex-NSW Education Minister Carmel Tebbutt
(see the 'ex' pattern here?) a number of politicians have jumped on the teaching history bandwagon. But at what
cost? From right wingers
to a multitude of meddling State Governments, it seems
everyone has an agenda. We'd like to let the readers decide
what is worth learning. Here at IronOutlaw.com we
present the facts, the fiction and everything in between. It
all adds to the experience and hopefully makes history an exciting
place to be while also proving it doesn't always have to be written by the victors.
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