From the Bush
Compilation album by Various artists
Released	1990
Label	CAAMA

From the Bush is a compilation album of Australian Indigenous bands released in Australia by CAAMA in 1990. ^[1] It was nominated for a 1991 ARIA Award for Best Indigenous Release.

Rough Guides calls it "a fine introduction to the contemporary music of Central Australia's desert regions and sparse townships." ^[2] Penelope Layland writing in the Canberra Times gave it a mostly negative review^{[ according to whom?]}, saying most of the album was "fairly standard music" and "run-of-the-mill musical forms" but noting the better songs "those which incorporate at least some elements of traditional Aboriginal music or traditional instrumentation". ^[3]

Accolades

Track listing

1. Don't worry just be happy – Blekbala Mujik
2. Tjana anu wilurara – Chrysophrase
3. Hermannsburg Mountain – Irwin Inkamala & the Country lads
4. Mardaka nyanu – North Tanami Band
5. She's my sister – Daryl Smith
6. Seasons coming – Areyonga Desert Tigers
7. Tjitji tjuta wankanyi – Titjikala Desert Oaks Band
8. To leave this young black girl – Wairuk Band
9. We’re the Wedgetail Eagles – Wedgetail Eagle Band
10. Pitjantjatjara Boy Like Me – Isaac Yamma
11. Pitulu (Petrol) – Punch Thompson
12. Mount Doreen – Western Desert Band
13. Blackmans crying – Frank Yamma
14. Alice don't grow so fast – Amunda
15. Dreamtime blues – Bill Wellington
16. I'm telling you – Irwin Inkamala & the Country Lads
17. Black Boy – Wedgetail Eagle Band
18. Lajamanu – North Tanami Band
19. Nitmiluk – Blekbala Mujik

Tracks 1,4,9,12,16,18 and 19 only appear on the cd version.

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