Contents:
Or browse results titled:. Murder Murder Greater Sudbury, Ontario. Their virtuosic musicianship and evocative songwriting are backed by a wealth of original and traditional murder ballads.
Streaming and Download help. If you like Murder Murder, you may also like:.
Time Flies by Jim Lauderdale. The latest from Jim Lauderdale is a showcase for his heavily-detailed songwriting and soaring country melodies. Rivers and Vessels by Joan Shelley.
Letters Never Read by Dori Freeman. Freeman updates her roots influences while fine-tuning her songwriting. Bandcamp Album of the Day Nov 2, Joan Shelley by Joan Shelley. The new record from Joan Shelley, produced by Jeff Tweedy, is warm, rich and earthy, Shelley's voice laying deep in a latticework of guitar. Gorgeous, stirring new single from Joan Shelley sets her warm, oaky voice against dry, waltzing guitar.
Also available on 7". Pristine harmonies and gentle twang aplenty on this happy alt-country collaboration. Purchasable with gift card. Parcels circulated from reader to reader, instead of coming back to headquarters. When books wore out they were given to lighthouses, railway, forestry, mining and road construction camps and to missions for Aborigines. Book distribution by rail was more challenging than in neighbouring New South Wales where rails ran fan-wise out from Sydney. In Queensland there were several unlinked railway systems.
Families would make their way to the nearest railway station to collect their parcels. Those living a long distance from the rail depot, made arrangements with private carters or the postal service for the next leg of the journey. Local carters carried books from the centres to the railway stations free of charge. A map, hung in the Brisbane office, illustrated the immense territory covered by the Club - from Birdsville in the south to Coen, Cape York, and settlements along the Gulf of Carpentaria in the north.
Books travelled to sheep stations near the Western border and to lighthouses up and down the coast. Parcels going to Burketown from the Townsville centre, went miles to Dobbyn where the rails ended, and then overland by private carrier. The central line extended to Longreach and Winton. The southern line ran west to Quilpie and Cunnamulla and southwest to Dirranbandi.
A trip of miles was not uncommon. Parcels might go or more miles by train and then another by car. In one member got her books from the closest rail depot, in Mount Isa, which was still miles from her home. One reader in described a parcel travelling from Townsville, miles by rail to Gilliat, where the mailman would take it another 20 miles.
Deliveries to Cape York Peninsula came by boat to a port usually 50 or more miles away, and then by pack horse as late as The Club also had an arrangement with the Flying Doctors to help with deliveries. Settlers were grateful for the reading matter.
Many had grown up in towns with book shops and Schools of Art and they carried the habit of reading into the bush. Tastes ranged from popular novels and poetry to serious works of history and science. Others asked for the translations of French and Russian classics.
Also available on 7". Murder By the Book Hischak. The decision was also welcomed by the families of crime victims, who said it will go a long way in helping others. I want to learn all I can about the country I am beginning to love. I have been admitted to Farthing Hall and watched the development of a romantic love story and enjoyed the domestic difference of two very likeable people.
The settlers particularly appreciated volumes on travel, exploration and any books by Ion Idriess. Requests for Flynn of the Inland and Cattle King appear frequently on the waiting list. One reader wrote to the Club in I want to learn all I can about the country I am beginning to love. I have just read Flynn of the Inland. Our choice of books is non-fiction and travel chiefly, but actually we read anything and devour Australian books.
Besides lending books, the city women extended a sympathetic ear to country dwellers.
Bush correspondence was filled with descriptions of harsh circumstances. As I was alone with my children I knew I would have to keep vigil all night. Thanks to the Bush Book Club the horror of that night was lessened; had I not had splendid books to read I think I should have gone mad. The country women also wrote asking advice on household matters, requesting recipes or patterns or sharing news of their children.
They came to view the corresponding secretary, and the other women in the Brisbane office as friends. In the next decades the Queensland Railways closed a number of its smaller branch lines and the Club lost more subscribers. Better roads, the establishment of regional libraries, as well as cars, radio, telephone and television, all helped ease the isolation of earlier years. The Club closed its doors in The Queensland Bush Book Club was important because it reached out to an otherwise ignored constituency at a time when there was no other book lending service to remote communities.
City women forged a bond with country women and enriched the cultural experience for many.