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We can't afford to put fuel in the car so we're staying home and taking a radio road trip.
Wide Open Road - the Triffids, from Born Sandy Devotional, a 1986 release, This version from the expanded 2006 reissue.
Road Trip - Adrian Kosky, it was on his album The High Side of the Low End, from 2006. Before taking up the guitar, Kosky was renowned as a player of the mountain dulcimer. He splits his time between western Victoria in Australia and Clarksdale, Mississippi.
Time To Go - the Davidson Brothers, true blue Victorian bluegrass players, from their 2014 album Wanderlust.
West Coast Cosmic Highway - Datura 4, the title track of their 2020 album. Datura 4 is one of several musical projects led by Dom Mariani, who also provides extra music for The Down Under Hour each week with his band the Majestic Kelp.
Devil On the Road - Dirt River Radio, from 2009, their album Beer Bottle Poetry.
Ride On - AC/DC, from the album Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap, released in Australia in 1976 and in the US in 1981. Recorded in Sydney.
Treasures from the vault, and a detour from our radio road trip
No More War - Billy Thorpe and the Aztecs, it was on an album titled More Arse Than Class, a 1974 release. If you say it with an Aussie accent, arse rhymes with class.
War Or Hands of Time - the Masters Apprentices, from 1967, their debut album. This version was on a 2009 Aztec Music compilation titled The Master’s Apprentices.
I Was Only 19 - Redgum, a 1983 single and it was on their 1983 album Caught In the Act. The lyrics describe the plight of soldiers returning home after fighting in the war in Vietnam and receiving shabby treatment from the government and from people in the community.
Our radio road trip continues, maybe in a new 1966 Holden car
It's A Long Way There - Little River Band, from their 1975 debut album. Recorded in Sydney.
Let's Go - King Stingray, it was on their self-titled debut album, a 2022 release. They're from northeast Arnhem Land and their songs have lyrics in English and Yolŋu Matha. Several of the band's founding members have relatives from renowned First Nations bands Yothu Yindi and Warumpi Band.
Ride Around the World - the Cartwheels, from their 2014 album At Home.
After a long day of travel...
Get Drunk, Ring Yer Friends - Tim Rogers, it's from an expanded CD version of Dress Me Slowly, an album he made in 2001 with his band You Am I, but this song is on a bonus disc by another of his groups, called the Temperance Union.
Dom Mariani and the Majestic Kelp start us off, move us along, and tell us when we're done.
