The Junk Drawer

I read at CNN today that at Steve Irwin’s funeral, murners heard a song titled “True Blue” by “Australian Country singer John Williamson.”  I didn’t even know Australia had a Country and Western music industry, but I suppose it makes sense in some way.  Both Australia and America were once rural, frontier nations, and former colonies of England.

So I went to iTunes and looked up the song True Blue [link will open iTunes].  The music isn’t bad.  The album is rather humorously titled for a “country” album, Old Man Emu.  To me, it sounds more like folk.  Even so, it’s not to my taste; however, I’ll be interested to see if sales of the song or album improve as a result of the publicity.  Right now, there are no customer reviews of the album at iTunes or at Amazon.  Amazon does not even offer a picture of the album cover.