By TANIA PHILLIPS
NORMA O’Hara Murphy will release her brand new country album on 22 October at the Warwick Rodeo.
Supporting Norma will be the ‘Redland Bay Bluegrass Boyz’ a five-piece band from the Sunshine Coast. The launch will be held in the Members Pavilion at Warwick Rodeo.
The event starts at 7pm and Norma’s new album Solid Gold will be available on the night.
According to the lady herself, this album is “a smorgasbord of horse and rodeo songs, a must for any horse lover”.
The album features 11 Norma O’Hara Murphy originals and one cover song from (Lyle Lovett). Also Norma’s own version of her Golden Guitar winning song “Paddy William” which won Norma and Slim an award in 2001.
There are special tribute songs for one of our top sires “Acres Destiny”, “Texas to Tamworth” as well as the title track “Solid Gold” – Norma’s personal tribute to her own stallion Roc Again, now deceased.
One of the tracks, Gone Drovin, has been nominated for the Golden Guitar Awards in January – Norma’s first entry since 2010. The album also includes a tribute to a special Warwick event in the form of a new song – Warwick Rodeo.
Norma said she is very proud of this album and is excited about launching it at Warwick Rodeo, right in the hub of it all.
“I’ve spent a lifetime with horses and around rodeos and camp drafts so it is very appropriate to be releasing it in the year of the horse,” she said.
“And in the heart of horse country right here in Warwick.”
