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
Going Blind (The Go-Betweens song) ever was one single song designed to be released by that label, it would be this outlandishly winsome little pop tune from a 80's band that's as out of place as it is out of time. But then, if life was as excellent as Pynchon novels, sweet little nothing Go-Betweens would be stars." Going Blind (The Go-Betweens song) "Going Blind" is the first single by Australian indie group The Go-Betweens taken from their seventh studio album, "The Friends of Rachel Worth". It was released as a CD single by W. Minc Records (the label of their former manager, Steve Miller)