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Australian Folk Ballads & Parlour Songs

by Archer

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1.
Jacky--Jacky 03:19
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2.
It's Rainin' In My Heart 03:04
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3.
The Land Where The Crow Flies Backwards 03:19
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4.
My Home In The Valley 04:51
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Archer, The Claypan Crooner

Archer is no stranger to the songs of his homeland. Throughout his musical career he has performed and recorded numerous songs of the folk and country traditions from all over his native Australia. Songs penned by both white settlers and Aboriginal artists from the last 100 plus years. That, along with countless original compositions which transport you to a time long gone, these four recordings are just another drop in the bucket for a fella like Archer. Inspired by the vast beauty and rugged nature of his homeland, and from those original inhabitants who he has deep kinship with all over the country, Archer’s music is exactly what people want when they hear the word “Folk.” Drawing inspiration from 1930s vocal groups such as The Ink Spots and The Mills Brothers, Cowboy Ballads, Country & Western, and Ragtime, Archer has a remarkably timeless sound.

Having tramped around his country for over 20 years, with his swag on his back and his guitar in his hand, Archer has lived out in “The Long Grass” amongst various Aboriginal tribes, has farmed, has planted trees, has hitch hiked and train hopped and slept out on the rocks and in the warm summer rain. He has gone through hell and back again, and all the while, the man has written and recorded some of the most tremendous Folk music I have heard from the last ten years. He even owns a cow named Seamus who has its own cooking show.

I was lucky enough to have him answer my email back in the Fall of 2021. I had been introduced to his haunting voice and waltzing guitar by dear friend Amy Lou Keeler that summer and had it in my head that I ought to reach out and see if this swagman would ever consider crossing the planet to Nova Scotia. Lucky again for me, he did. Was the money great? No. Was I embarrassed to send him west with little more than a couple hundred Canadian dollars, a basket of vegetables, and a cheap paperback copy of Longfellow’s Evangeline? Quite. But did we record some gorgeous music from a land far far away? Yes. Yes we did.
---Dylan Jewers. Fall, 2022

credits

released February 24, 2023

Vocals, guitar---Archer Broughton
Recording Engineer--Callum Gaudet
Production---Dylan Jewers & Callum Gaudet
Mastering Engineer--Kurtis Eugene McAllister

Recorded, Produced, & Engineered by Callum Gaudet
Antigonish, Nova Scotia, Sept 19th, 2022
Produced by Dylan Jewers
Cover design by Brendan Morley

1 Australian Traditional
2 written by Archer Broughton
3 written by Dougie Young
4 credited to Clive Kelly

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