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Clinton Walker is an Australian writer, best known for his works on popular music. He is known for his books Highway to Hell (1994; a biography of Bon Scott), Buried Country (2000; also a film and soundtrack album), History is Made at Night (2012), and others. He has also written on other subjects, in books such as Football Life (1998) and Golden Miles (2005), and has worked extensively as a journalist and in television.




= Books

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Walker's sixth book, Buried Country, a history of Aboriginal country music, was published in 2000. "Like many of Walker’s projects", Martin Jones wrote in Rhythms, "Buried Country was at least a decade ahead of its time". At a time when Aboriginal music still wasn't established or accepted as a fixture on the broader Australian music scene, Walker had long been one of its few media champions, and Buried Country was hailed as a pioneering and monumental work of music historiography. A new updated edition of the book was released in 2015 along with a rebooted version of the CD called Buried Country 1.5, and as a result of their even greater success than the first time around, a touring live stageshow adaptation premiered in 2016 and played the festival circuit for a few years. In 2018, Australian singer-songwriter Darren Hanlon, in conjunction with Mississippi Records in the US, produced a vinyl iteration of the Buried Country compilation that included even more new rare tracks.
In 2012, Walker published History is Made at Night, a polemic on the endangered Australian live music circuit.
In 2018 Walker published two books. Early in the year a new edition of his 1996 title Stranded was published, and then later in the year with the all-new Suburban Songbook. Suburban Songbook: Writing Hits in post-war/pre-Countdown Australia is a critical history of the early evolution of rock/pop songwriting in Australia,




Controversy


Deadly Woman Blues, a history of black women in Australian music, was released in 2018 by a division of academic publisher UNSW Press, Each of 99 biographical entries was accompanied by a hand-drawn illustration by Walker. The book immediately garnered a few glowing reviews.
There was an angry backlash from four of the artists who expressed their displeasure at being included without being spoken to, and citing factual inaccuracies. This led to social media outrage in which Walker was shamed as a racist, misogynist, colonialist privileged white male. The book was withdrawn from sale, with the publisher promising to pulp any unsold copies and never to reprint it.
Walker admitted to mistakes and apologised for them, but he nevertheless suffered personal trauma and grave damage to his reputation. "I didn't try to obscure what I was doing, I didn't take all the appropriate steps. I've been involved in underclass music forever, and in some ways, this is no different, but in other ways, it is very different".




Bibliography


Inner City Sound (Wild & Woolley, 1981; revised and expanded edition, Verse Chorus Press, 2005)
The Next Thing (Kangaroo Press, 1984)
Highway to Hell: The Life and Times of AC/DC Legend Bon Scott (Pan Macmillan, 1994; revised edition, Verse Chorus Press, 2001)
Stranded: The Secret History of Australian Independent Music 1977-1991 (Pan Macmillan, 1996/Visible Spectrum, 2021)
Football Life (PanMacmillan, 1998)
Buried Country (Pluto Press, 2000; revised and expanded edition Verse Chorus Press, 2015)
Golden Miles (Lothian, 2005; expanded edition, Wakefield Press, 2009)
History is Made at Night (Currency House, 2012)
Wizard of Oz (Wakefield Press, 2013)
Deadly Woman Blues (New South, 2018/WITHDRAWN)
Suburban Songbook (Goldentone, 2021)




Discography (as producer)


Buried Country (Larrikin-Festival, 2000/Warner Music, 2015)
Long Way to the Top (ABC, 2001)
Studio 22 (ABC, 2002)
Inner City Soundtrack (Laughing Outlaw, 2005)
Silver Roads (Warner Music, 2013)




Videography (as writer)


Notes from Home (ABC, 1987)
Sing it in the Music (ABC, 1989)
Studio 22 (ABC series, also as co-presenter, 1999–2003)
Buried Country (Film Australia, 2000)
Long Way to the Top (ABC, 2001)
Love is in the Air (ABC, 2003)
Rare Grooves (ABC series, also as presenter, 2003)




References






External links


Official website
Buried Country
Clinton Walker on Rock's Back Pages

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