Hi Walt,
Nah, that's a fairly broad pommy accent right down the line... ;)
Normally singing tends to temper this sort of thing! even a broad Scots
is tamed... Of course there are exceptions (like the Proclaimers!)
What I do find weird is that the current crop of popular Country artists
from down here sound more like Tennessee denizens than Elvis did! an
Aussie accent was good enough for Slim Dusty :(
And speaking of Australian music, one of our older 'leading lights',
Billy Thorpe, died yesterday... it is said that he played to larger
crowds than the Beatles in the same era.
davidt
On Thu, Mar 01, 2007 at 06:58:23AM +0000, Walt Wayman wrote:
> It's just somehow strange to hear a singer with such an obvious
> English -- actually, he sounds more Aussie -- accent singing to the
> accompaniment of a steel guitar. I tend to associate those with our good
> ol' boys' country music, but it worked. And I like country music too.
> Got lots of Willie and Waylon and Johnny.
>
> Walt
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