{"id":203,"date":"2015-02-11T05:43:44","date_gmt":"2015-02-11T05:43:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.onthewallaby.net\/?p=203"},"modified":"2015-02-11T06:00:16","modified_gmt":"2015-02-11T06:00:16","slug":"harmony-james-live-at-freds-pass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onthewallaby.net\/?p=203","title":{"rendered":"Harmony James – Live at Freds Pass!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Harmony James (20.5.2008)<\/strong><\/p>\n

When I worked for the NT Govt, I heard of\u00a0a would be\u00a0country singer who worked for a different section – the lands mob on the Barkly Tableland down round Tennant Creek way. We exchanged a few emails and it turned out she was playing at the Freds Pass Show. I thought I’d check her out and write a review. (At the time I was a moderator for the Country Music Channel forum).<\/p>\n

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Harmony James – Freds Pass Show<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Well I went to see Harmony on Saturday night \u2013 it was an outdoor show, with people just sitting on the grass. You could have stood 6 inches from the stage if you wished \u2013 and if you could push your way through the little kiddies. She gave away a CD and a hat, so all the kids stood at the stage waiting for free stuff.<\/p>\n

I really enjoyed the show \u2013 she was a lot \u2018rockier\u2019 than I expected and she worked up quite a sweat in the humidity and stage lights, putting everything into her songs.<\/p>\n

I liken Harmony to a Willie Nelson or Kasey Chambers \u2013 a distinct voice which is unique and unmistakable, however, that tends to polarise opinions \u2013 love her or hate her. This can be a great advantage and lead to success like those above, or it can banish you to Independent Land for your entire career. As opposed to guys like George Strait, who can sing anything and sound good, with universal appeal, but not necessarily instil passion \u2013 with more of an every-man\u2019s voice. We\u2019ll have to watch and wait to see where Harmony ends up.<\/p>\n

Harmony is having great success in song-writing \u2018competitions\u2019, and I think it is partly due to her unusual turn of phrase, which I believe comes from living in the remote Barkly region. She seems to me to be very honest and open, in her songs, on stage and to chat with \u2013 again, I think, due to her background. While she chats with the audience, sings and sounds fantastic on stage \u2013 there is no over-polished hype or fake motivational war-cries, like \u2018Come on people, I can\u2019t hear you\u2026.!!!!\u2019<\/p>\n

She gets up and she performs confidently and she performs well \u2013 I certainly hope to see her again.<\/p>\n

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Harmony James – Freds Pass Show<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I was meaning to ask Harmony about a new CD in the works but she said she will selling CD\u2019s after the show \u2013 I assumed it was a new, full length item, so obviously didn\u2019t bother asking about it. I had a chat, bought the CD and only realised it was the EP when she asked for 10 bucks. That rattled me a bit because I had 30 in my hand, so I forgot to ask when a full CD would be released.<\/p>\n

I ended up doing the scarper before the Sunny Cowgirls came on \u2013 I\u2019d been there, on my own for 3 hours and they had Whiskey Creek and Tom Curtain to play before the Sunnies would start. I really only went to check out Harmony anyway but it\u2019s a fair show for 15 bucks. I would love to have stayed all night, if only I had someone to drive me the 35ks home!<\/p>\n

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Harmony James (20.5.2008) When I worked for the NT Govt, I heard of\u00a0a would be\u00a0country singer who worked for a different section – the lands mob on the Barkly Tableland down round Tennant Creek way. We exchanged a few emails and it turned out she was playing at the Freds Pass Show. I thought I’d … Continue reading Harmony James – Live at Freds Pass!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5K3B8-3h","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onthewallaby.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onthewallaby.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onthewallaby.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onthewallaby.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onthewallaby.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=203"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.onthewallaby.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":209,"href":"https:\/\/www.onthewallaby.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203\/revisions\/209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onthewallaby.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onthewallaby.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onthewallaby.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}