Dougie Young

Dougie Young
Born	1930s, Mitchell, Queensland, Australia
Died	1991
Genres	country
Instruments	Vocals, Guitar

Dougie Young was a singer and songwriter from South West Queensland. Young had a white father and a Gurnu mother.^[1]

Earlier in his life he worked as a stockman, during which he learnt the guitar and started writing songs. A riding accident later ended his working as a stockman. In 1963 or 64 Jeremy Beckett, an anthropologist made field recordings of Young, many of which were released in 1965 as an ep called Land Where the Crow Flies Backwards (Wattle). The title track has since been covered by Gary Shearston, Athol McCoy and Chad Morgan. He was recorded twice more, first in Walgett in 1969 and then in Sydney in 1979 (soon after a report of his death). Songs from these three recordings were released by AIATSIS in 1993 as The Songs of Dougie Young^[1]

Young sang "Cut A Rug", a drinking song from his troubadour days in the Wilcannia in the 50s and 60s, in both the SBS documentary and accompanying cd, Buried Country: The Story of Aboriginal Country Music.

Discography

• Land Where the Crow Flies Backwards (1965) Wattle
• The Songs of Dougie Young (1993) AIATSIS^[2]

References

1. ^ ^{a b} Walker, Clinton (2000). "I'm a bludger, I'm a drunk, I'm a jailbird". Buried Country: The Story of Aboriginal Country Music. Pluto Press. pp. 89–99. ISBN 1-86403-152-2. 
2. ^ Music Australia The songs of Dougie Young

• Breen, Marcus (1989). Our Place Our Music. Aboriginal Studies Press. ISBN 0-85575-197-5. 
• Gilbert, Kevin (1978). Living Black. Melbourne: Penguin. 
• Beckett, Jeremy (3 July 1965). "Aboriginal Balladeer". The Australian 
• Beckett, Jeremy (July 1965). "Where the Crow Flies Backwards". Quadrant 

External links

• Green Left Weekly 11 May 2004 An oral history of the outback
• National Library of Australia Dougie Young sings own folk songs . 1963 recording by Dr. Jeremy Beckett
• National Library of Australia Dougie Young singing. 1979 recording by Glen Vallance

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