Sing For Me, Countryman - Neil Murray

Title: Sing For Me, Countryman
Author: Neil Murray
Publisher: Sceptre Books / Hodder & Stoughton Australia
Format: Paperback
First Published: 1993
ISBN: 0-340-57856-4

Category: Australian Literature / Music Writing / Memoir

Condition: Good second-hand condition with general shelf wear, light creasing, and age toning to pages. Binding remains solid and text is clean. Please see photos for the exact copy available.

Sing For Me, Countryman is a vivid and deeply Australian work blending fiction, autobiography, music, travel, and social observation. Written by acclaimed songwriter Neil Murray, the book moves through desert landscapes, roadhouses, music scenes, and cross-cultural encounters with the same lyrical quality found in his songs.

Best known as a founding member of the Warumpi Band and writer of songs such as “My Island Home,” Murray writes about identity, country, race relations, music, and life on the road with honesty and intensity. The book captures a particular Australia rarely seen in mainstream literature — one shaped by long highways, remote communities, political tension, friendship, and song.