Album Download: AUD $15.20

Honky tonk prankster, Murrumbidgee Jones, is a Rogue City ratbag who wraps musical stories inside simple melodies and orchestrates uncomplicated arrangements with slow strummed guitars, hacksaw violins, shoebox drums, barbed wire banjos and other things that squeak and bark in the night.. His narratives are strong and always dipped in rich imagery that takes the listener on a magic ride to the wide open spaces and pokey rooms of this big brown land. Sometimes humorous and sometimes serious, the songs not only live within the traditional boundaries of folk, blues and country music, but also wander into the shadows of Australian gothic. They’re songs caught between liquid a dust, laconic ramblings about youthful imagination, adolescent longing and the foibles of adulthood. They explore life in general, mixing happy with sad, and playful with dour. His heroes are many and varied, and dead and alive, and funny and sad. The past is his oil can, and with the future being impossible to avoid and the present being just a ship passing in the night, he tends a dream a lot. Those dreams are what you hear on his album The Same Joke Twice.