Buried Country

Buried Country is the name of a documentary film, book, and soundtrack album released in 2000, and a stage show which toured from 2016 to 2018.

A prosopography created by Clinton Walker, it tells the story of Australian country music in the Aboriginal community by focussing on the genre's most important stars.

[1][2][3][4] The Film Australia documentary was directed by Andy Nehl, written by Walker, and narrated by Kev Carmody.

[6][7] Buried Country has also been produced as a touring stage show that had its premiere at the Playhouse in Newcastle, New South Wales in August 2016, starring surviving elders of the tradition and a younger generation of singers and songwriters.

It featured a rotating cast of the original artists, with backing band the Backtrackers.