Songversations Podcast

Our guest today Kelly Brouhaha.

Kelly is an award-winning songwriter and multi-instrumentalist known for having an extraordinary rare voice.
The South Australian Award Winning Songwriter is one of those artists whose unique style simply cannot be put into a box, Kelly is an artist you simply need to hear.

Living full-time out of her 92 Toyota Hiace Campervan and touring the country, in her music the audiences get a sense of the down to earth country kid and the stories she’s collected on the road after leaving a mortgage and marriage behind to pursue a minimalist lifestyle, enjoying the simpler things in life.

From big blues to soulful country, it is music that is real, raw, and vulnerable, and her captivating live show will have you giggling one minute and in tears the next as she tells stories about her travels and her family.

Our guest for this new episode is Lachlan Bryan.

Lachlan is a singer-songwriter, producer, and musical director. He first emerged as frontman and songwriter for alt-country band The Wildes in 2009 and together the band has released 4 critically praised albums, toured the UK, Europe, and The USA many times, and opened for artists ranging from Justin Townes Earle to Shawn Colvin and John Hiatt.
They won The Age Music Victoria Award for Best Country Album in 2014 and won The Golden Guitar for Best Alt-Country Album the same year. They’ve been ARI Awards nominees and twice shortlisted for The Australian Music Prize.

Lachlan has been the Musical Director for ‘Zevon: Accidentally Like a Martyr’ (starring Henry Wagons) and can be regularly found on festival stages playing piano for and musical directing other acts. He has collaborated with the likes of Tim Rogers, Kasey Chambers, and Henry Wagons as well as Americans Hannah Aldridge and Amelia White.

After two records with ABC, Lachlan Bryan and The Wildes signed to Social Family Records in 2020 and with the new label are expected to publish two albums in 2021, including Nearest Misses Live and a studio album.

Our guest today is Clint Wilson.
Singer/ Songwriter from Melbourne Clint Wilson possesses that rare and special something in his songwriting, that makes his fans instantly connect to his story.
He is a singer and songwriter who obviously feels a deep connection to his role as a storyteller.

Appropriately compared to the likes of Paul Kelly and Crowded House, Clint’s nostalgic Folk, Alt-Country music is an enjoyable amble through the tradition of storytelling in song.
No stranger to the Australian circuit, Clint has played at events including the legendary Tamworth Country Music Festival and supported fellow musicians Kevin Bennet and The Flood, and Andrew Swift.

With two albums published, ‘Dark Water’ in 2018 and ‘Another Death in the Family’ in 2020 Clint’s passion for his music is something that is felt tangibly in his performance and writing style.

Our guest today is Kere Buchanan.

Mainly drummer but multi-instrumentalist Kere started to play drums on gigs around Christchurch New Zealand with his dad when he was 12 and at the young age of 13 was the winner of ‘Most Outstanding Young Musician of the Year’ for drums @ the Tauranga Jazz Festival NZ.

From that moment the list of collaborations, recording sessions, music projects, and productions he has been involved with is incredible, a career that took him to play around the world while keeping receiving acknowledgments and performing requests by a long list of artists including David Campbell, Margaret Urlich, Louie Shelton, Chris Lloyds, Shania Twain, Marcia Hines Wendy Matthews, Tina Arena/ Human Nature/ Kylie Minogue, Dionne Warwick, Felicity Urquhart, Karen Lynne, Grace Knight, Simon Bruce, Bella and has been in tour with many artists including a decade with Marcia Hines, but also with Tina Arena, Grace Knight, Doug Parkinson, Steve Clisby, Jeff Duff just to mention some.

Our guest today is Allison Forbes, one of the best emergent talented singer-songwriters of Australian Country Music. 

Tamworth’s rebel child is a new-age outlaw of country music,

Allison Forbes has secured her spot tightly in Australia's alt-country scene. Brave and authentic, will insightful lyrics and addictive melodies, her stories will hit you deeply.

She is an honest and inspiring performer, her voice soars easily through any style with strength, warmth, and consideration.

This is Part 2 and the conclusion of our Songversation with Gina Jeffreys, a royalty of Australian Country Music.

Star Maker multi Golden Guitar winner in Australian Country Music and first ever Australian has been touring around the world with touring Australia with music greats like Lee Kernaghan, Kenny Rogers, Guy Sebastian, Kris Kristofferson, and the most famous of all – Johnny Cash.

After stepping out of the music scene for several years Gina come back in 2019 with the new album "Beautiful Tangle".

Our guest for this episode of Songversations Podcast is Gina Jeffreys, a royalty of Australian Country Music

Star Maker multi Golden Guitar winner in Australian Country Music and first ever Australian has been touring around the world with touring Australia with music greats like Lee Kernaghan, Kenny Rogers, Guy Sebastian, Kris Kristofferson, and the most famous of all – Johnny Cash.

After stepping out of the music scene for several years Gina come back in 2019 with the new album "Beautiful Tangle".

Our guests today are The French Family, Camille, Stuie, and Sonny. Australian country music multi Golden Guitar winners as the duo "Camille & Stuie", they now live in Nashville and added a new member, their son Sonny, transforming the successful duo into The French Family.

Our guest today is Melody Pool, a singer-songwriter that critics have considered as one of the best songwriters in Australia and that wrote some songs that still today bring me to tears for their intensity and deep emotions.

A profoundly emotional and talented artist that struggled with the pressure of mental health that threatened more than her budding stellar career. After being the support act for Australian tours by the Eagles and Rodriguez among many others, in 2017 following the release tour for her second acclaimed album "Deep Dark Savage Heart", she decided to step out of the music business and put her career on pause to take care of her own self first.
In 2021 she announced her return to music with a new album and live shows.

This is Part 2 of our Songversation with Kevin Bennett,
a prominent singer/songwriter in Australian Country Music highly respected by his peers.

Multi Golden Guitar winner and Aria nominee He writes relevant, contemporary Australian music containing elements of Blues, Rock, and Country - telling stories of where he's from and where he might be going. He sings his life.
It speaks to and is informed by the Australian landscape and the people of this wide, brown land, Australia.

In 2005 he discovered that he had Aboriginal heritage and belonged to the Kamilaroi tribe of Northern New South Wales. Since then he has been involved in several Indigenous Songwriting / Musical Skills and Mentoring projects with Tamworth Regional Council, APRA, and lately with the Jimmy Little Foundation.
In 2011 was asked to be an indigenous ambassador for Apra.

Was a fantastic and extended Songversation with our guest that we decided to spit it in two episodes and this is part #2.