SALON DEs REFUSES

The following is a gallery of images that just didn't quite make the book's cut, for a whole range of reasons, but mostly that they were dragged off the internet, meaning 1) they were often of too low a quality or resolution to print, and 2) that they were of uncertain provenance - but which probably doesn't matter so much in merely keeping them, as here, in virtual circulation, along with a few others I've just stumbled across along the way, and which altogether I think provide something of a useful resource collected here in one place:

Colourful Cowboys: Candy Williams

Alf Gollan

Jim Ridgeway

Bob Randall

Kevin Gunn

Kenny Buckskin

Johnny Lovett with Ron Rontauna

'Moonie' Atkinson

Elvis Parsnip, the world's greatest (only?) Aboriginal Elvis impersonator

Carole Fraser

Evelyn Crawford

Sharon Mann with her un-maker, politician and morals campaigner Keith Wright

Classic Lionel: With Elvis, LA 1968...

... Melbourne 1969, with the Country Styles...

... with Alan Hawking

Above: Brown Brothers Band, Tasmania, 1970s Right: Ned Kelly's Western 5, Sydney, 1950s

Darcy Cummins' Opals, Brisbane, 1960s

Early Seaman Dan and band

Malay Town band in Cairns, 1940s

Black Allan Barker

Vic Sabrino

Isaac Yamma

Val McGuinness

Ted Robinson

Tim Edwards

Dougie Young

Col Hardy

Harry Williams: (ABOVE) With Chika Dixon at Sydney's Foundation for Aboriginal Affairs, mid-60s. (RIGHT) With Wilga

Buster Weir, tent boxer and bodgie

Freddie Little

Tiger Williams, Launceston, 1954

Billy Bargo

Tracy Lee Grey (pic: Gary Radler)