Greg Champion - Strayana

He's made cricket and christmas cds, comedy and sensible singer songwriter cds, and with his "around twentieth" album 'strayana', Greg Champion achieves just about the ideal balance. 'strayana' has been three years in the cooking, and features a blend of humorous and heartfelt songs with one common thread: they're all about "straya", and they're all making a statement about who we are as strayans. What "champs" does best is tell US about ourselves. So here you're served up tales about upper kumbuckna, working dogs, the mighty murray, giant echidnas and razor-toothed ferocious platypusses, a toddler's funeral, fishing boats, don bradman (in duet with kamahl) and two songs inspired by torres strait islander music. The first single is track one bushman from the outback, owing a little to commander cody, bob wills - and to stuie French!