This morning on my radio programme I spoke to a guy who was born in Dublin then moved to Melbourne at the age of six and then Sydney, before going bush as a young man.
In the years since, Colin Buchanan has won nine Golden Guitar awards, and has written songs with Lee Kernaghan, Adam Brand, Adam Harvey, Troy Cassar-Daley and many others.
He’s one of Australia’s most treasured singer-songwriters. His Christmas album, recorded with Greg Champion, has become an Australian classic, in particular his Aussie Jingle Bells, which is regularly heard at end-of-year school concerts and Carols by Candlelights.
All that, plus appearances as a regular on ABC TV’s Playschool and various other television and radio programmes.
Colin Buchanan is a 9-times Golden Guitar winner, an APRA and ARIA award winner with career album and DVD sales that stand in excess of 240,000 units. A regular on national TV and radio for over 15 years, a leading children’s entertainer, award-winning singer/songwriter and highly sought after co-writer, #1 selling Christian artist, genial host… Colin Buchanan is a hard man to pin down!
If you listened to any one of his five authentically insightful Australian country albums you’d likely deem him an acoustic singer songwriter par excellence, with his sharp eye, keen wit and rare talent for capturing the people, stories and scenery of the bush in song. The Sydney Morning Herald has declared him “…simply the best singer/songwriter to emerge in the Australian CM scene in the last decade.” Besides his own substantial body of self-recorded work, Colin has contributed to a swag of hits in the collective repertoires of Australia’s most successful CM stars, including Lee Kernaghan, Troy Cassar-Daley, Melinda Schneider, Adam Brand and Beccy Cole.
He’ll be in Perth for a series of concerts early next month so I took the opportunity to catch up with Colin Buchanan during my programme today.
You can click the play button on the audio player at the bottom of this post to hear what Colin had to say.
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