Norma O'Hara Murphy - The Rodeo Collection, Vol 1 (2022) Hi-Res

Looking back on over forty plus- years of highlights-with horses-competing-breeding- with many songs dedicated to her equine mates! Rode her Palomino stallion in the Melbourne Royal Show Parade-up Swanston Street-Melbourne! Singing the National Anthem on horseback at Warwick! and Mt Isa Rodeo- having sung National Anthem at National Finals on several occasions- Competing in the Celebrity Cutting in Tamworth- in 1993-as current Female Vocalist of the year. Also rode in the Rodeo Cavalcade in Warwick many years ago! I attended Warwick Rodeo also going back over twenty years or so! Competed in it -wrote about it- now I live here-so proud of our wonderful Rose & Rodeo city! Solid Gold the album -looks at the Hall of Fame which links the three events- Country Music- Cutting and Rodeo. My own version of Paddy William- - recorded originally by Slim & won us both a Gold Guitar. Tributes to two of Australia's best sires - Acres Destiny- Texas to Tamworth- and Solid Gold a love song to my beautiful Stallion Roc Again, by Roc O'Lena. Bundarra Dust- my very first Campdraft-and one of my favorite Bush towns- and a special tribute to our Cowgirls-who always add so much glamour to any Rodeo! (I'm a Cowgirl). our Drovers- (Gone Drovin') both the pioneers & the modern day Drovers -still out on the stock routes. and our Lady Roughriders! Violet Skuthorpe- Kitty Gill and Gwen Winter. This album has been described as (a musical masterpiece) and I won't argue with that- a must for anybody who has ever owned or loved a horse! this is a collectors item -that includes a magnificent booklet & photographs- by June Underwood an Internationally acclaimed photographer!