Broderick Smith with Richard Tankard play Martha Salt Saturday 10th December 2022.
Broderick Smith will bring his legendary songs borne of a life time in the blues and the open road. Broderick is the godfather of Australian country rock and a towering figure of original Australian music. Brod has written, sings and plays a living soundscape of our Australian lives. The Adderley Smith Blues Band, Carson Boogie Band, Country Radio, The Dingoes, The Big Combo are testament to Brod’s work over the past 50+ years.
Playing with Brod will be the fabulous Richard Tankard on keys (Goanna Band, Tank Dilemma, Geoff Achison’s Soul Diggers).
A rare and unique experience from one of this great lands finest.
You are welcome to bring your own dinner/snacks whilst the Bowlo kitchen is not in operation.
Broderick Smith has been a clerk, storeman, soldier, advertising copywriter, graphic artist and actor, as well as a singer-songwriter.
Broderick sings, plays harmonica and guitar. He writes his own material and performs other songwriter’s material as well. His stage and TV experience enables him to communicate with any audience.
Broderick started playing folk and blues music back in 1962. Leaving school and having a variety of jobs, he joined legendary Blues outfit the Adderley Smith Blues Band*.
In 1968 Broderick was kidnapped by the government of the day and press-ganged into the Australian Army for 2 years, in which he spent most of the time trying to stay out of trouble.
Upon his eventual release after the collapse of the Liberal junta he helped form a country roots type act called Sundown. But his first commercially recorded work was on Harvest EMI records in 1972 with Carson, a boogie and blues band. This was his first real taste of travelling the country and playing music.
Then in 1973 he helped form The Dingoes, a legendary country rock group that is a main inspiration behind the modern country rock explosion. The Dingoes aim in life was actually to carry on the great work done by another band called Country Radio and explore the possibilities of blending Bush music with R’n’B.
The Dingoes were signed up to American management in 1976 and went over there to live and work until the end of 1978.
Broderick eventually came back home and formed the Big Combo. During this time he was also a singer on the Andrew Durant Memorial concert album.
He’s released over fifteen albums to date, nine under his own name, recording both here and in Canada and the US. He has recorded with Cat Stevens, Jimmy Barnes, Steve Cropper, The Memphis Horns, Buffy Saint Marie, Phil Ochs, Ted Egan, Tommy and Phil Emmanuel. The list goes on and on.
