Posted by: @nkllpopeyahoo-com-au

I once saw this man live at the Byron Bay Blues Festival. He was on the same bill that day as Buffy St Marie, Dylan and Jethro Tull. Good company and he stole the show. Unfortunately he died in 2017.

He was a blind, left handed indigenous musician who grew up in one of the communities. The only guitar available was right handed and was shared. So he taught himself to play with the instrument  upside down. The result, like his voice is eerily beautiful. His name was Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu, known as Gurrumul. His lyrics are in his native clan language (Gumatj) mostly but some are in English

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If it doesn't work just search him. Enjoy.

Nigel

Nigel, hauntingly beautiful music.   Thank you for posting.  As one that has spent a lot of time listening to indigenous music here in this hemisphere and this side of the earth I find this interesting.

And it's shocking the lengths some people will go to learn guitar.   Sitting here with a room full of guitars, hopefully it will make me think before griping again about the difficulty or learning guitar!    Nah..   Probably not 🙄 🤨 

Thanks again for posting this.

@matonanjin Thanks for that, I am glad you liked it. It's a shame he is gone now, he was only in his mid-forties and had just begun to gain international exposure.

Nigel