van walker

wildgrass - van walker
from the celestial railroad ...and other stories

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van walker
Born & raised on the windswept prairies of north-west coast Tasmania, between lashings of hallucinogenic cheese & Magic Johnson, weened on William Blake & Ribald magazine, Van first heard the music of Bob Dylan around adolescence & began picking guitar & writing songs. Some hundreds of songs later and a hell-bent pick, he moved to Melbourne to form the rocknroll outfit The Swedish Magazines, and pick his unique hillbilly stuff on the side.

Finally an album of 15 original songs was recorded (The Celestial Railroad, 2008) and then, quicker than a rat up a drainpipe, another....The Last Record Store (2009). Now, two NEW albums recorded in 2009 have surfaced. The 1st, GREETINGS FROM PENGUIN TASMANIA, released in December 09, & LOVE FATE, released March 2010. These two records are a departure in sound, but the story-telling remains, as Van expands his oeuvre & adds to his tunes of singing spies, drunken rabbits, misunderstood werewolves, bus driving pariahs, gentle

bushrangers, itinerant cannibals, lost dogs & odes to old slow computers, songs of crackpot recluses, muse-driven fishermen, bar-banished outsiders & general existential crisis!
Audiences of his first two albums will be joined by many more with the release of GREETINGS FROM PENGUIN TASMANIA... & LOVE FATE & will see their opinions of this emerging talent justified.

NEW ALBUM SOON TO BE RELEASED