Arts in Australia country music, which has developed a style quite distinct from its US counterpart, influenced by Celtic folk ballads and the traditions of Australian bush balladeers like Henry Lawson and Banjo Paterson. Pioneers of popular country music in Australia included Tex Morton in the 1930s and Smoky Dawson from the 1940s onward. Slim Dusty (1927–2003) was known as the "King of Australian Country Music". His successful career spanned almost six decades and his 1957 hit "A Pub With No Beer" was the biggest-selling record by an Australian to that time, the first Australian single to go gold, and the first and
Duncan (Slim Dusty song) Golden Anniversary Album" and appeared on eight subsequent albums: "Beer Drinking Songs of Australia" (1986), "91 Over 50" (1996), "The Very Best of Slim Dusty" (1998), "The Man Who Is Australia" (2000), "A Piece of Australia" (2001), "Slim Dusty Live" (2006), "Pubs, Trucks & Plains" (2008) and "The Very Best of Slim Dusty" (2013). When Australian Labor Party politician Duncan Kerr was running for the Division of Denison in Tasmania in 1987, his advertising campaign was based on the song "Duncan". Kerr won the seat and remained the local member until 2010. Dusty re-recorded the song with Rolf Harris in