I’ve been there and back again. Joy McKean. 2011

Slim Dusty and Joy McKean came together through their shared passion for country music and their love of taking their show on the road. Their marriage of more than fifty years is celebrated as the most successful partnership in the history of Australian music. Slim Dusty’s record sales have topped seven million, and he and Joy have each received the music industry’s most esteemed awards.

Now, through her own personal stories and the songs that she and Slim wrote, Joy describes their pioneering decades of life on the road, from the old Showgrounds of the 1950s to the grand theatres of the big cities, the old-time halls of country Australia and some of the most remote areas in the continent. She also tells of the people they met along the way and of the family they gathered around them-both their own children, Anne and David, and the many people with whom they travelled and performed.