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10 YEARS AGO... JULY 1993
NEWS: included announcement of the MO Awards (country sections won by LEE KERNAGHAN, ANNE KIRKPATRICK and the FARGONE BEAUTIES with an award also to JOHN WILLIAMSON for Most Successful Attraction for the second year running)... ROGER KNOX named Artist of the Year by NAIDOC (the National Aboriginal & Islander Day Observance Committee)... JOHN WILLIAMSON helping Telecom launch a new logo... Louise Blundell, wife of James, hurt in a horse riding accident... and the death at age 59 of America's CONWAY TWITTY.
SPECIAL FEATURES: highlighted the life of TEX MORTON and an "Aussie invasion" of America's biggest country music event Fan Fair in Nashville. In addition to Wayne Horsburgh and Lee Kernaghan, GINA JEFFREYS, KEITH URBAN, GREG CHAMPION and ARTHUR BLANCH were there, together with two Australian tour groups.
COUNTRY MUSIC PEOPLE: featured a tribute by JOHNNY ASHCROFT to the late BETTYBO (Reiman), a performer and songwriter in her own right and tireless worker for the NSW South Coast Country Music Association... a novel new band known as the BETTAHANNA CHOOK RAFFLE...up and coming Sydney entertainer TANYA SULLIVAN... and "the girl from the gulf" VAL BUTLER.
FESTIVAL NEWS: included coverage of the biggest ever Barmera Country Music Festival in South Australia's Riverland... another successful Gold Guitar Awards in Gore, New Zealand... record numbers for the 1993 West Moreton Country Music Festival near Ipswich and the fifth annual Brass Buckle Country Music Festival at Laidley, both in Queensland... and in NSW, the annual Beef Week promotion at Casino... the first Rosevale Rodeo Country Music Festival on the Hawkesbury River... the Cherry City Music Festival at Young... a big line-up for the upcoming Sydney Country Music Festival at Richmond... and the fourth Bush Music Festival coming up at Glen Innes.
HERE & THERE: reported on the success of PAUL "PIXIE" JENKINS’ first headline tour... many country music performers rallying to raise funds for farmers hit hard by the drought in most of Queensland and parts of NSW... Tamworth '94 slated for a revival of the BUSHWACKERS... LEE KERNAGHAN and COLIN BUCHANAN getting together to write She's My Ute (the first of many collaborations to come!)... the proposed formation of a "country music council" for South Australia.
CHARTS: GRAEME CONNORS takes over the number one spot with The Return with LEE KERNAGHAN slipping to number two with Outback Club and WILLIE NELSON's Across The Borderline rising to number three. DWIGHT YOAKAM rises to number four with This Time and DOLLY PARTON drops to number five with Slow Dancing With The Moon.
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