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Roger Knox is an Australian country singer known as the Black Elvis and the Koori King of Country. He is an Gamilaroi man (a group of Indigenous Australians), was born in Moree and grew up in the Toomelah Aboriginal Mission near Boggabilla near the border between New South Wales and Queensland. 
Roger is famous and much loved for his regular tours of the NSW and Queensland prison systems where many Aboriginal men and women are incarcerated
In 1980s Knox was in a plane crash that killed his drummer Ken Ramsay. Knox was badly burnt and became addicted to pain killers before one of his Elders got him onto a traditional bush remedy in the form of a natural bath oil made from the Euraba bush. That bush and the settlement on which his father was born were inspirations for the name of his band, the Euraba band.
Roger Knox was given the Jimmy Little Award for Lifetime Achievement in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Music at the 2006 Deadlys.
Knox was scheduled to perform at the Old Town School of Folk Music in Chicago, Illinois on October 10, 2009 with Jon Langford and the Pine Valley Cosmonauts. However, his US visa was denied a week before the show and Knox did not make the trip. The tour with Langford finally occurred in 2012 to great critical acclaim.
On February 12, 2013 Knox, along with the Pine Valley Cosmonauts, released his first album in nine years, a full-length entitled Stranger In My Land on Bloodshot Records. The album was produced by Langford and includes guest contributions from Bonnie 'Prince' Billy, Charlie Louvin, Dave Alvin (X, Blasters), Kelly Hogan, Langford, Andre Williams, the Sadies, Sally Timms (Mekons), Tawny Newsome, and more.

Track Listing:
1. The Land Where The Crow Flies Backwards
2. Stranger In My Country
3. Blue Gums Calling Me Back Home
4. Took The Children Away
5. Arafura Pearl
6. Brisbane Blacks
7. Wayward Dreams
8. Scobie's Dream
9. Ticket To Nowhere
10. Warrior In Chains
11. Streets of Tamworth
12. Home In The Valley 

Extra Informatie:
Aantal Discs: 1xCD
Genre: Country, Folk
Format: MP3 @ 320kbit
Year of Release: 2013
Speelduur: 41 minuten
Cover: Front is in de RARs verwerkt