Australian Bush Poetry Performances by Jack Drake Bush Poet



Original Bush Poetry CD's performed by Jack Drake Bush Poet

Australian Bush Poetry Classics by Jack Drake

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Australian Bush Poetry
Classics won a golden Gumleaf Award, one of the Australian Bush Laureate
Awards, for the Album of the Year 2011 at the 2011 Tamworth Country Music
Festival.

 

"Australian Bush Poetry Classics"

by Jack Drake

12 poems written by Australia’s early Bush Poetry Masters and recited by Jack in camp-fire style. Includes “The Man from Snowy River”. This CD was the winner of the 2011 Golden Gumleaf Award for Album of the year.

The CD has been produced in accompaniment with a Teacher's Package designed to aid teachers in sharing this unique style of literature in class. It contains the CD, a DVD on tips for performance plus a Teacher's Book of Notes with over 100 pages elaborating on the history and explanations of the poems and their authors.

Australian Bush Poetry has re-surfaced since our bi-centennial and the making of the movie "The Man from Snowy River". Modern Bush Poets perform regularly at festivals, breakfasts, dinners and are particularly popular with the Grey Nomads.

"Australian Bush Poetry Classics" the CD is available from Jack for

$22.00AU incl postage & handling within Australia.

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This CD includes the following titles

The Man from Snowy River (AB "Banjo" Paterson)

Shearing in the Bar (HP "Duke" Tritton)

How the Fire Queen crossed the Swamp (Will Ogilvie)

Jones's Selection (GH "Ironbark" Gibson)

Sweeney (Henry Lawson)

Said Hanrahan ( John O'Brien)

The Riding of the Rebel (Will Ogilvie)

The Women of the West (George Essex Evans)

Trouble on the Selection (Henry Lawson)

On Old Master (C J Dennis)

Rio Grande's Last Race (AB "Banjo" Paterson)

The Spirit of the West (Lex McLennan)

 
Bronco Harry's Last Ride - Bush Poetry on CD

"Bronco Harry's Last Ride"
and Other Irreverent Verse

by Jack Drake

11 of Jack’s original humorous poems

Produced by Roger Ilott © 2005 Restless Music
13 tracks - track list

Sample track (first 5 verses)
The Compo Kid (MP3 file 1.02mb)
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This CD includes the following titles

Bronco Harry's Last Ride

The Compo Kid

Uramol

Big Drinkers

Grandpa Does the A.C.T.

The Saga of the Sexual Saddle

The Brisbane Bean-a-thon

Deliverance

Conversation Blues

The Regulator

Woody and the Hereafter

 
Bush Poetry CD cover The Cattle Dog's Revenge and other humerous verse

"The Cattle Dog's Revenge"
and other humorous verse

by Jack Drake

13 of Jack’s original humorous poems

Produced by Roger Ilott © 2001 Restless Music
13 tracks - track list

Sample track (first 2 verses)
The Cattle Dog's Revenge (MP3 file 628 kb)
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This CD includes the following titles

The Cattle Dog's Revenge

The Green Knob

Mulga Bill - The Sequel

Shearing in the Nudist Club

The H.G. Panel Van

Harvey's Toorak Tractor

Desmond and the Dunny Cart

The Worlds First Horse Breaker

Hippy Dogs

The Possum

City Fleas

Skiting Johnny

Afterburner

 
Bush Poetry CD Dinkum Poetry

"Dinkum Poetry"

by Jack Drake

17 of Jack’s original bush poetry, humorous & serious including a sequel to the poem “The Cattle Dog’s Revenge”, and “The realities of War”

Produced by Roger Ilott © 2002 Restless Music
17 tracks - track list

Sample track (first 2 verses)
The Whistlestop Hotel (MP3 file 767 kb)
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This CD includes the following titles

The Cattle Dog' Return

Storm

The Little Fat Cricketer Bloke

To Own a Horse

The Whistlestop Hotel

Roxanne's Wedding Dress

Clear Brown Eyes

The Breaker's Grave

Bleep Bleep

Australia's Heroes

The Super Scooper

The P-Day Invasion

Running Board Mick

The Realities of War

The Song of the Outback

 

 
Bush Poetry CD Dinkum Poetry

"Jack Drake Live at Eukey Hall"

By special request from his audiences, Jack resents this hilarious selection

Introduction by Eugene Paramanoff

Recorded live at the Eukey Hall near Stanthorpe Qld,
by Restless Music.

The CD has a bonus track of one of his
latest poems which was commended in the Winton Bronze Swagman Awards for
2012. "The Water of the Wells - Beersheba 1917".

This poem has also been
requested by patrons of Jack's work.

$22.00AU incl postage & handling within Australia.

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This CD includes the following titles

Eukey Village Idiot

Dad

Grandad

Mum

Coastal Complications (J. Drake)

The Irish

Rindercella (Archie Campbell)

Phones

Green Ranger

Ducks

Country Life (J Drake)

Bonus track .....Jack gets serious

The Water Of The Wells - Beersheba 1917 (J Drake)

 

WHY NOT BUY A FULL SET OF CD's

(all 5 the above CD's)

ONLY $85.00AU incl postage& handling within Australia

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TEACHER’S PACKAGE

This aid for teachers presenting Australian Bush Poetry to classes contains

The CD “Australian Bush Poetry Classics”, a Teacher’s Note book of over 90 pages with the history, culture, explanations of poems & authors, student projects. read..listen..write..perform, a DVD with performing tips and the work sheets to be printed off for students’ use.

Includes 12 Classics from Paterson, Lawson, Ogilvie, Dennis etc including “The Man from Snowy River”.

Suitable for Grade 7 & upwards.


$87 plus postage & handling

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