Dougie Young (30 August 1933 – 1 April 1991) was a singer and songwriter from South West Queensland.
[2] Earlier in his life he worked as a stockman, during which he learnt the guitar and started writing songs.
He married Christina Johnson on 11 December 1955 at St Therese's Catholic Mission Church at Wilcannia.
[1] In 1963 or 1964 Jeremy Beckett, an anthropologist made field recordings of Young, many of which were released in 1965 as an EP called Land Where the Crow Flies Backwards (Wattle).
The title track has since been covered by Gary Shearston, Athol McCoy, Chad Morgan and Roger Knox.