Music of Australia by American Country and Western music. This strain of Australian country music, with lyrics focusing on strictly Australian subjects, is generally known as "bush music" or "bush band music." The most successful Australian bush band is Melbourne's The Bushwackers, active since the early 1970s, other well-known country singers include Reg Lindsay, bush balladeer singer Buddy Williams, and entertainers Johnny Ashcroft and Chad Morgan. Another, more Americanized form of Australian country music was pioneered in the 1930s by such recording artists as Tex Morton, and later popularized by Slim Dusty, best remembered for his 1957 song "A Pub With No Beer",
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