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You can listen to the launch of her CD this week (on demand) on www.abc.net.au/snc and click on Last Week's Show. She's on for the first two hours. It's a good CD but quite different from her last three CDs.
SUICIDE IN SONG FOR FARMERS
DAVE'S DIARY - 29 OCTOBER 2007 - SARA STORER
SUICIDE IN SONG FOR FARMERS
DAVE'S DIARY - 29 OCTOBER 2007 - SARA STORER
"He's got his dad and his dad's footprints/ buried deep in this sand/ but he's tired and he's stopped talking/ and his mind is getting weaker every day/ so behind a diesel running/ Bang! he takes it all away." - Land Cries Out - Sara Storer
When Sara Storer returns home to her family farm way out west in outback NSW she is reminded that farmers' suicide is no rural myth.
Some drought stricken sons of the soil walk off the farm alive - others bite the bullet in a more literal sense.
Storer has sprayed solace, like her father and brothers spread super phosphate in the odd good season, in her songs.
So it's surprise that debut single Land Cries Out is a focal point of her fourth album Silver Skies (EMI) that also deals with death by drowning in another haunting outback song Cold River.
Although Sara's single is based on a spate of agrarian suicides her other death tune is a flashback to a treble child fatality during floods in the Northern Territory settlement where she began her teaching career in the nineties.
When Sara Storer returns home to her family farm way out west in outback NSW she is reminded that farmers' suicide is no rural myth.
Some drought stricken sons of the soil walk off the farm alive - others bite the bullet in a more literal sense.
Storer has sprayed solace, like her father and brothers spread super phosphate in the odd good season, in her songs.
So it's surprise that debut single Land Cries Out is a focal point of her fourth album Silver Skies (EMI) that also deals with death by drowning in another haunting outback song Cold River.
Although Sara's single is based on a spate of agrarian suicides her other death tune is a flashback to a treble child fatality during floods in the Northern Territory settlement where she began her teaching career in the nineties.