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An Interview with Australian music icon: Peter Head

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Janice:  Peter , What was your most recent recording project? Peter: My most recent recording project was one I actually started in 1973 . Back then I was working with a largely unknown singer by the name of Bon Scott and we both pooled our meagre savings to hire a studio for the afternoon and help each other out by recording a few of our original songs. One of those was a song I wrote for Bon to sing called “Round & Round” I kept the 8 track tape from that session, and only last week  took his vocal from then, and then wrote a whole new backing for it, recording all the instruments myself at home ,using “Logic” recording programme  on my home i Mac computer.  I also added my three most current girl backing vocalists for a track each, namely Cora James, Shirley Smith and Heather King . Then also my son Joshua on guitar . Mixed two versions at a tiny studio in the Cross, one with Bon singing all the way through, and one where we swapped verses as ...

209th edition of CURVED RADIO PODCAST UP

16:08:15 We're lost in music in the 209th edition of Curved Radio! I'm guest host on the 209th edition: Tracks included work by Loene Carmen, Peter Head, Holiday Sidewinder & Josh  “...stark country-soul and shimmering blues ...a direct line to the heart that showcases her glorious voice“ No Depression ‘Loene Carmen sits in a magical, rarefied space, somewhere between Tom Waits and Dolly Parton...’ Australian Stage The spareness of the sound has an authenticity, sincerity and purity of purpose that harks back to the likes of Woody Guthrie. This is folk music. Or country, real country ... With characteristic grace and eloquence, LC reaches the parts other songwriters can’t touch.... I put her on the same pedestal as Kris Kristofferson, Tom T., or Merle Haggard." Something You Said https://soundcloud.com/locarmen https://soundcloud.com/holiday-sidewinder http://www.holidaysidewinder.com/ https://www.mixcloud.com/CurvedRadio/160815-were-...