Dominic Turner is an Australian
blues
Blues is a music genre and musical form which originated in the Deep South of the United States around the 1860s. Blues incorporated spirituals, work songs, field hollers, shouts, chants, and rhymed simple narrative ballads from the Afri ...
guitarist, vocalist and key
songwriter for the Australian blues band ''
The Backsliders
The Backsliders are an alternative-traditional country-rock band. Chip Robinson teamed up with Steve Howell to form the band as a duo in 1991 in Athens, GA. The remaining members had all joined the group by 1994, and the group disbanded in 1999. ...
''. Dom also has a number of solo projects including 'Dom Turner and Supro' and 'Dom Turner and the Nationals'. In 2002, Dom along with Rob Hirst, formed the band Angry Tradesman.
He specialises in "bottle neck" slide guitar using resonator guitars as well as 6 and 12 string acoustic and electric guitars. Dom's session guitar work can be heard on a variety of Australia albums, such as
Rob Hirst's (from
Midnight Oil
Midnight Oil (known informally as "The Oils") are an Australian rock band composed of Peter Garrett (vocals, harmonica), Rob Hirst (drums), Jim Moginie (guitar, keyboard) and Martin Rotsey (guitar). The group was formed in Sydney in 1972 by ...
and also the
drummer
A drummer is a percussionist who creates music using drum
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in The Backsliders) ''
Ghostwriters'' Second Skin album. Dom's influences are many and varied – a blend of delta blues,
piedmont blues
Piedmont blues (also known as East Coast, or Southeastern blues) refers primarily to a guitar style, which is characterized by a fingerpicking approach in which a regular, alternating thumb bass string rhythmic pattern supports a syncopated melo ...
, rock, dub and sounds of Asia.
He is a highly regarded speaker on blues and roots music and has guested on ABC (
Australian Broadcasting Corporation) radio programs and presented music workshops at festivals and in universities (both nationally and internationally). He has also contributed songs for the ABC's television show
Sea Change.
In 2004, Dom was voted Songwriter of the Year at the Australian Blues Awards in
Goulburn,
NSW and has a sculpture in recognition of this honour at the Goulburn Visitors Centre.
Albums
''The Backsliders''
*2016 - Heathen Songbook
*2014 - Dark Side
*2011 - Starvation Box
*2009 - Throwbacks
*2007 - Left Field Holler
*2005 - Live
*2003 - Live at the Basement (DVD)
*2002 - Hanoi
*1999 - Poverty Deluxe
*1998 - Downtime (A Ten Year Collection Of Backsliders Music)
*1995 - Wide Open
*1993 - Live at the Royal
*1991 - Hellhound
*1989 - Sitting on a Million
*1988 - Preaching Blues
''Dom Turner and Supro''
*2000 - Electro Vee
''Kim Sinh and Dom Turner''
*2012 - Two Days in Hanoi
''Dom Turner and Ian Collard''
*2012 - Mama Says We're Crazy Too
References
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Australian blues guitarists
Australian male guitarists
Australian songwriters
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