ROGER GREEN
Sings Country for Cancer
Old Man’s Kingdom – Camooweal – Streets of Old
Sydney Town – Saddle Boy – Dry Weather Winds – Winter Winds – By The
Plains of Peppinarti – A Land He Calls His Own – Exile – Saddle Up And
Ride – Every Road I Travel – Lights On The Hill – Old Time Country Hall
Roger Green is one of those Australian country
music entertainers, vocalists, recording artists, songwriters, and more,
who have a lot of heart in their music. Not only in their music, this
particular CD was recorded with all revenue generated by it going to
cancer research. I like Roger’s voice. He’s a very nice vocalist. He
does things with country music that we don’t hear anymore in America.
For instance, on the very first song, “Old Man’s Kingdom” we actually
hear him whistling the lead. I haven’t heard that in many years, and
here it is, live, real, and certainly entertaining. Roger has a very
nice to listen to voice, and he uses it all the way through this super
nice CD. There’s not much information with it, don’t know who the
excellent backing musicians are. Be that as it may, it’s a very
pleasant listening experience hearing this Australian sing songs he
likes a lot. He picked four songs from Slim Dusty to do. I had the
opportunity to meet Slim a number of years ago, and found him to be a
very dedicated ‘country’ artist, and a super nice friend. So do a lot
of Australian performers who worked with Slim. We will be having no
less than ten folks from Australia at our 44th annual National Old-Time
Music Festival (October 3-4-5-6, 2019) at the Christensen Field House in
Fremont, Nebraska. Kris Kross Records are going to be well represented
with an amazing number of Australian country singers. Going to be fun
that’s for sure. I am looking forward to that, and wishing, as I listen
to Roger Green, sing his favorite country songs written by Australian
writers, that he might be among the visitors. Super good steel guitar
player throughout this entire recording. The session went well,
obviously, with the just right changes in tempo and melody lines to make
it a super interesting one to listen to. I believe the Rural Roots
Music Commission have closed down entries for this year’s CD of the
Year awards, but I might keep this CD in my files and send it in for
next year. It’s very traditional, just the way I like it, and knowing
the RRMC taste in country music, I believe they’d like it too. Hang in
there Roger, there’s no ‘contact’ on this CD or I would be sending this
review to you. Keep up the good work, your ‘traditional’ sound even
carries a bit of the Irish in your very listenable voice. Our very best
to you mate.
RECORD REVIEW BY BOB EVERHART, President, National Traditional Country Music Assn. www.music-savers.com for Country Music News International Magazine & Radio Show