- Good country.. Warren H. Williams. Pic: WHW website
Hermannsburg music legend Warren H. Williams will launch his new album ‘Urna Marra’ (“Good Country”) on November 25, 2011 at the Empire Church Theatre in Toowoomba, Queensland.
It will be followed by a concert at the Capitol Theatre in Australia’s home of country music, Tamworth, NSW, then gigs in Moree Plains, Cunnamulla, Cherbourg and Brisbane.
Wiliams says that Urna Marra is the sixth studio album of Williams’ “country music career”, and “a tribute and celebration to all the musical influences of his life”, with “12 new country ballads telling stories of life in the city, missing home and love of family.”
- Cover art for Urna Marra.
On their website, Empire Church Theatre says Warren’s “early country music influences come to the fore in this album”, while he “explores their translation into the present with rollicking violin and guitar playing throughout the album”.
It is the second CD release of 2011 for Williams, who launched album Waninjjara with the Warrumungu Songmen in September, as part of the 2011 Song Peoples Sessions collaborative music project, produced through Winanjjikari Music Centre in Tennant Creek, NT.
His participation and songs were “founded on highlighting the Song Peoples project’s purpose to affirm Indigenous identity and reinforce and maintain traditional cultural material and language.”
The Indigenous country music star chose to record his new country album Urna Marra at Dolphin Studios in Withcott (near Toowooba), Queensland, with veteran music producer Johnny Kaye.
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Williams says he “has plans to enter it in the Tamworth Country Music Awards” in 2012.
He has dedicated the album to his late father Gus Williams, an Australian music legend in his own right, who passed away a year ago.
- Bookings for the ‘Urna Marra’ national launch on Friday November 25 at 6.30pm can be made online at the Empire Church Theatre website.
- Bookings for Tamworth, Sunday November 27, can be made here.
- Read an article about Warren in Tamworth’s Northern Daily Leader.
- More information at Warren’s official website and ‘like’ him on Facebook.
Words: Megan Spencer.
Sources: Milyika Scales, Warren H. Williams website, Empire Church Theatre website.
