The Bushwackers celebrate 50-year anniversary with induction into country's most renown group

Josh Leeson
January 28 2021 - 10:30am
HONOURED: The Bushwackers' Dobe Newton and Roger Corbett receiving their Australasian Country Music Roll of Renown awards at the Golden Guitars on Saturday night. Picture: Gareth Gardner
HONOURED: The Bushwackers' Dobe Newton and Roger Corbett receiving their Australasian Country Music Roll of Renown awards at the Golden Guitars on Saturday night. Picture: Gareth Gardner

WHEN The Bushwackers first arrived at the Tamworth Country Music Festival in 1981 to collect a Golden Guitar for instrumental of the year for Flying Pieman it was a different world.

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Josh Leeson

Josh Leeson

Journalist

Josh Leeson is an entertainment and features journalist, specialising in music, at the Newcastle Herald. He first joined the masthead in 2008 after stints at the Namoi Valley Independent and Port Stephens Examiner and has previously covered sport including the Asian Cup, A-League, Surfest, cricket and rugby league.

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