{"id":7178,"date":"2013-06-25T15:29:26","date_gmt":"2013-06-25T15:29:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stylusmagazine.ca\/?p=7178"},"modified":"2013-06-25T15:29:26","modified_gmt":"2013-06-25T15:29:26","slug":"roger-knox-the-pine-valley-cosmonauts-stranger-in-my-land","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/2013\/06\/25\/roger-knox-the-pine-valley-cosmonauts-stranger-in-my-land\/","title":{"rendered":"Roger Knox &#038; The Pine Valley Cosmonauts &#8211; Stranger In My Land"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"http:\/\/stylusmagazine.ca\/2013\/06\/25\/roger-knox-the-pine-valley-cosmonauts-stranger-in-my-land\/images-3\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-7179\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7179\" alt=\"images\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stylusmagazine.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/images1.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In his native Australia, Roger Knox is known as the Koori King of Country or Black Elvis.<!--more--> Black being a casual reference to his Aborigine heritage. In Australia, country music has provided a common ground for the white and Aborigine communities, and developed culturally in much the same way as folk music has in America. Knox\u2019s latest offering, <em>Stranger In My Land<\/em> features songs written by Aborigine artists, some of which are previously unrecorded folk songs collected in the field like Alan Lomax. The variety of subject matter is similar to a comparable collection American folk protest artists and country music outlaws. The leadoff track, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BYCb4xDMZu4&amp;noredirect=1\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cThe Land Where The Crow Flies Backwards\u201d<\/a> is about land claims and indigenous rights and has a country rock sound reminiscent of Bobby Bare in late \u201870s. On a Canadian tour of jails, Knox was \u201cshocked\u201d see First Nations being affected by the same issues, and with the same results. His backing band The Pine Valley Cosmonauts is a loose collective anchored by Canada\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/stylusmagazine.ca\/2010\/11\/05\/story-time-wrob-vilar-the-sadies\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Sadies<\/a>. In addition to ensuring the survival of traditional folk songs, <em>Stranger In My Land<\/em>, also features what is likely Charlie Louvin\u2019s last recording. (Bloodshot Records, <a href=\"http:\/\/bloodshotrecords.com\/\">bloodshotrecords.com<\/a>)<b id=\"docs-internal-guid-0bd70d34-7bef-15b9-c3f2-cc5bcd460aa3\"> Broose Tulloch<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In his native Australia, Roger Knox is known as the Koori King of Country or Black Elvis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[114,812,985],"class_list":["post-7178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-bloodshot","tag-roger-knox","tag-the-sadies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7178\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}