Graeme Connors

Graeme Connors (born 29 April 1956) 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.

Graeme Connors
Born29 April 1956 (1956-04-29) (age 64)
Mackay, Queensland, Australia
Occupation(s)Singer, songwriter, composer, musician
Years active1974–present

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".[1]

In 2016, Connors was inducted into the Australian Roll of Renown.[2]

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.

From the late 1970s through to the late 1980s, Connors wrote songs that became big hits for Slim Dusty, John Denver and Jon English.

The 1980s

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", 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

Studio Albums
  • 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)
  • This Is Life (2002)
  • The Moment (2004)
  • The Last Supperteers (with The Fiddler's Feast) (2007)
  • Still Walking (2010)
  • At the Speed of Life (2011)
  • Kindred Spirit (2013)
  • From the Backcountry (2018)

Compilation Albums
  • The Best... Til' Now (2000)
  • It's All Good... More of the Best (2006)[3]
  • 60 Summers – The Ultimate Collection (2016)

Video Albums
  • Concert to Camera (2017)
  • So far… and a little further (2004)
  • Up Close (2003)

Live Albums
  • #1 Hits Live (2018 streaming release, from Concert to Camera)
  • North Live (2018 streaming release, from Concert to Camera)

Repackaged Albums
  • And When Morning Comes (Deluxe Reissue) (1999)
  • North – 25 Years On (Remixed & remastered with bonus track) (2014)

Other Songs
  • "I've Got Your Back" (with Brad Butcher) (Single for charity, 2017)[4][5]

References
  1. Bligh, Anna (10 June 2009). "PREMIER UNVEILS QUEENSLAND'S 150 ICONS". Queensland Government. Archived from the original on 24 May 2017. Retrieved 24 May 2017.
  2. "Roll of Renown". TCMF. Archived from the original on 21 August 2018. Retrieved 21 August 2018.
  3. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 20 March 2012. Retrieved 16 July 2012.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  4. "Graeme Connors & Brad Butcher release I've Got Your Back". www.kixcountry.com.au. Retrieved 27 December 2018.
  5. "I've Got Your Back - Graeme Connors & Brad Butcher (Released: 24 Oct 2017)". Apple Music. Retrieved 27 December 2018.
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