- Graeme Connors【 6 albums 55 lyrics 】
- Graeme Connors (born in 1956 in Mackay, Queensland) is an Australian country music singer, songwriter, and performer. He is best known for the hits A Little Further North and Let The Canefields Burn. Throughout his music career Graeme has released over fourteen albums and to date has received fourteen Golden Guitar awards among other prestige Australian country music awards. He wrote the lyrics for the Paralympic Anthem. Most recently, he was awarded Album of the Year at the 2011 Tamworth Country Music Festival for Still Walking.
In 2009 as part of the Q150 celebrations, Graeme Connors was announced as one of the Q150 Icons of Queensland for his role as an 'Influential Artists'.
Early career and life
Graeme attended school St. Patricks in Mackay. Graeme commenced his music career in the mid-1970s doing support vocals for many well-known acts of the day, including Kris Kristofferson and Sherbet. He eventually recorded his first album And When Morning Comes which received a respectable amount of good reviews.
During the late-1970s through late-1980s, Connors wrote songs that became big hits for Slim Dusty, John Denver and Jon English.
The-eighties
Connors spent the first half of the 1980s writing songs based on truck driving which became hits for Slim Dusty such as 'I'm Married To My Bulldog Mack' and 'Dieseline Dreams'.
By 1988, Graeme had recorded and released the breakthrough single 'A Little Further North' to be featured on his first album on the Australian ABC Records label 'North'. Subsequent singles followed with the releases of 'Let The Canefields Burn', 'Cyclone Season', 'Sicilian Born' and 'A Heartache (Or Two)'. 'North' remains one of the best-selling Australian country albums of all time.
Discography
And When Morning Comes (1976)
North (1988)
South of These Days (1989)
Tropicali (1991)
The Return (1993)
Homeland (1993)
The Here and Now (1995)
The Road Less Travelled (1996)
One of the Family (1997)
A Delicate Balance (1999)
And When Morning Comes (Deluxe Reissue) (1999)
The Best... Til' Now (2000)
This Is Life (2002)
The Moment (2004)
It's All Good... More of the Best (2006)
The Last Supperteers (with The Fiddler's Feast) (2007)
Still Walking (2010)
At The Speed Of Life (2011)
Kindred Spirit (2013)
North - 25 Years On (2014)
60 Summers - The Ultimate Collection (2016) - Sorted by ＞ Sorted by album (Time) Sorted by song name (Characters) Sorted by other
- Album name Release Date Song
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It's All Good: More Of The Best
2008
1.It's All Good
2.Simple Truth (Provided)
3.Louisa
4.You're Getting To Me
5.Whatever It Takes
6.All That Matters
7.Won't Forget Loving You8.Cyclone Season
9.Sicilian Born
10.When The Rain Tumbles Down In July
11.What If
12.On A Roll
13.Soft Place To Fall (Provided)
14.I Got A Plan -
This Is Life
2003
1.Big Country (Provided)
2.Every Time You Fall In Love (Provided)
3.Good On You (Provided)
4.This Is Life (Provided)
5.Could You Still Be Here (Provided)6.Sea Horses
7.Ain't That The Way It Goes (Provided)
8.We Are What We Do (Provided)
9.All Hell Broke Loose (Provided) -
Best Til Now
2002
1.Little Further North (Provided)
2.Let The Canefields Burn
3.Child Of This Land
4.Pacifica
5.Tropicali (Provided)
6.Prodigal Son
7.Better Off Alone (Provided)
8.When I Sleep With You
9.Songs From The Homeland (Provided)10.Love Works (Provided)
11.Ringer And The Princess
12.Great Australian Dream
13.Road Less Travelled
14.Big Jimmy And Felicidad
15.These Uncertain Times (Provided)
16.Land Boys We Live In (Provided)
17.Being Here (Provided) -
Delicate Balance
1999
1.I Still Enjoy The View (Provided)
2.Delicate Balance (Provided)
3.When Lola Came To Town (Provided)
4.New York Winter (Provided)5.I Notice These Things (Provided)
6.Little Piece Of Peace (Provided)
7.Paul Robeson On The Steps Of The Sydney Opera House (Provided) -
#1 Hits Live
1.Prodigal Son (Live)
2.Love Works (Live)
3.The Great Australian Dream (Live)4.The Road Less Travelled (Live)
5.The Ringer and the Princess (Live) -
Miscellaneous
1.Let the Canefields Burn - 2014 Remastered Version
2.All That Matters Now3.A Little Further North
【Correction of errors in the album information】