Graeme Connors

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Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Albums
The Best ... 'Til Now
  AU 45 05/11/2000 (2 weeks)
60 summers
  AU 11 05/15/2016 (6 weeks)
From the backcountry
  AU 31 08/13/2018 (1 week)

Graeme Connors (born April 29, 1956 in Mackay , Queensland ) is an Australian country musician and songwriter . He is known in Australia for his hits A Little Further North and Let the Canefields Burn . During his music career, Conners produced fourteen albums and received fourteen Golden Guitar awards among many important Australian country music awards. He wrote the poem for the Paralympic Anthem and performed at the opening event of the Paralympic Gamesin 2000 in Sydney . Most recently he was named Album of the Year 2011 at the Tamworth Country Music Festival for Still Walking .

He also wrote the song Boomerang in Paradise about the early socialist colony of New Australia , which Australians founded in Paraguay in 1893.

Early career

Graeme began his music career in the mid 1970s as a vocal accompanist for Kris Kristofferson and for the band Sherbet . Probably his first album is And When Morning Comes .

During the late 1970s through the late 1980s, Connor wrote lyrics that became great hits for Slim Dusty , John Denver, and Jon English .

The Eighties

Connors wrote songs based on truck driving that became hits for Slim Dusty in the first half of the 1980s. Examples of this are I'm Married to My Bulldog Mack and Dieseline Dreams .

1988 Conners was the single A Little Further North , as his first album under the label North of the Australian ABC Records came out, then followed the singles Let The Canefields Burn , Cyclone Season , Sicilian Born "and A Heartache (Or Two) . North " was one of the best selling Australian country music albums of all time.

Discography

  • The Song Just Kept On Playin ' (1974; re-released on CD as "And When Morning Comes" in 1999)
  • North (1988)
  • South of These Days (1989)
  • Tropicali (1991)
  • The Return (1993)
  • Homeland (1993)
  • The Here and Now (1995)
  • The Road Less Traveled (1996)
  • One of the Family (1997)
  • A Delicate Balance (1999)
  • The Best ... Til 'Now (2000)
  • This Is Life (2002)
  • The Moment (2004)
  • It's All Good (2006)
  • The Last Supperteers (with The Fiddler's Feast) (2007)
  • Still Walking (2010)
  • At the Speed ​​of Life (2011)
  • Kindred Spirit (2013)
  • North - 25 Years On (2014)
  • 60 Summers - The Ultimate Collection (2016)
  • From the Backcountry (2018)

swell

  1. ↑ Graeme Connors in the Australian charts
  2. ↑ Greame Connors in the Australian Country Music Hall of Fame, accessed May 23, 2016

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personal data
SURNAME Connors, Graeme
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Australian country singer and lyricist
DATE OF BIRTH April 29, 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH Mackay , Queensland , Australia