Slim Dusty discography

The discography of Slim Dusty (1927–2003) (AO, MBE), an Australian country music singer, consists of 128 records, 61 studio albums.

By March 1976, Dusty had achieved 37 gold and two platinum records. By November 1979, this Dusty had amassed 63 gold and platinum albums.

In 2018, it was reported Dusty had sold more than seven million records and earned over 70 gold and platinum album certifications.

Dusty had number singles with "A Pub with No Beer" (1958) and "Duncan" (1980). In 2000 his 100th album Looking Forward Looking Back won the ARIA Award for Best Country Album

NB: Chart positions prior to 1970 are unknown. Certifications prior to 1990 are unknown.

Albums

Studio albums

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! scope="col" rowspan="2" style="width:20em;" | Title

! scope="col" rowspan="2" style="width:20em;" | Album details

! scope="col" colspan="1" | Chart positions

! rowspan="2" style="width:12em;" | Certifications (sales thresholds)

! scope="col" style="width:3em;font-size:90%;" | AUS

! scope="row" | Slim Dusty Sings

Released: 1960
Label: EMI Music/Columbia (330SX-7611)

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! scope="row" | Songs for Rolling Stones (credited to Slim Dusty And His Bushlanders)

Released: 1961
Label: EMI/Columbia (33OSX-7642)

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! scope="row" | Along the Road of Song

Released: 1962
Label: EMI/Columbia (33OSX-7654)

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! scope="row" | Aussie Sing Song (credited to Slim Dusty And His Bushlanders)

Released: 1962
Label: EMI/Columbia (33OSX-7668)
AKA Slim Dusty Sing Song

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! scope="row" | Another Aussie Sing Song (credited to Slim Dusty And His Bushlanders)

Released: 1963
Label: EMI/Columbia (33OSX-7689)

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! scope="row" | Songs in the Saddle

Released: 1963
Label: EMI/Columbia (33OSX-7697)

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! scope="row" | Songs of Australia

Released: 1964
Label: EMI/Columbia (33OSX-7713)

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! scope="row" | People and Places (credited to Slim Dusty And His Bushlanders)

Released: 1964
Label: EMI/Columbia

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! scope="row" | Australian Bush Ballads

Released: 1965
Label: EMI/Columbia (33OSX-7745)

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! scope="row" | The Nature of Man

Released: 1966
Label: EMI/Columbia

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! scope="row" | An Evening with Slim and Joy (with Joy McKean)

Released: 1966
Label: EMI/Columbia (33OSX-7761)

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! scope="row" | Essentially Australian

Released: 1967
Label: EMI/Columbia (33OSX-7790)

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ARIA: Gold

! scope="row" | Songs My Father Sang to Me

Released: 1967
Label: EMI/Columbia (33OSX-7814)

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! scope="row" | Songs from the Cattle Camps

Released: 1968
Label: EMI/Columbia (33OSX-7846)

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! scope="row" | Sing Along with Dad (with Joy McKean, Anne and David)

Released: 1968
Label: EMI/Columbia

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! scope="row" | Cattle Camp Crooner

Released: 1969
Label: EMI/Columbia (33OSX-7902)

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! scope="row" | Sing a Happy Song

Released: 1970
Label: EMI/Columbia

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! scope="row" | Songs from the Land I Love

Released: 1971
Label: EMI/Columbia (SCX-7987)

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! scope="row" | Glory Bound Train

Released: 1971
Label: EMI/Columbia (SCX-7993)

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! scope="row" | Me and My Guitar

Released: 1972
Label: EMI/Columbia (SCX-7999)

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! scope="row" | Foolin' Around (with Joy McKean)

Released: 1973
Label: EMI/Columbia

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! scope="row" | Tall Stories and Sad Songs

Released: 1973
Label: EMI/Columbia (SCX-8016)

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! scope="row" | Australiana

Released: August 1974
Label: EMI/Columbia (SCX-8018)

| 96

! scope="row" | Lights on the Hill

Released: August 1975
Label: EMI/Columbia (SCX-8028)

| 45

ARIA: 5× Gold
Label: EMI/Columbia (SCXO-791447)

| 55

ARIA: Gold

! scope="row" |West of Winton

Released: 1999 (Later withdrawn)
Reissued: 15 October 2001
Label: EMI (4957392)

| 197

! scope="row" |Ninety Nine

Released: 25 October 1999
Label: EMI (5234884)

| 50

! scope="row" |Looking Forward Looking Back

Released: 17 July 2000
Label: EMI (5271604)

| 3

ARIA: 2× Platinum

! scope="row" |The Men From Nulla Nulla (credited to Slim Dusty and Shorty Ranger)

Released: 15 October 2001
Label: EMI (5362432)

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! scope="row" |Travellin' Still...Always Will (with Anne Kirkpatrick)

Released: 18 March 2002
Label: EMI (724353803421)

| 37

ARIA: Gold

! scope="row" |Columbia Lane – the Last Sessions

Released: 1 March 2004
Label: EMI (724357729024)

| 5

ARIA: Gold
ARIA: Gold
Label: EMI (0748837)

| 8

Live albums

{| class="wikitable plainrowheaders" style="text-align:center;"

! scope="col" rowspan="2" style="width:20em;" | Title

! scope="col" rowspan="2" style="width:20em;" | Album details

! scope="col" colspan="1" | Chart positions

! scope="col" rowspan="2" | Certifications

! scope="col" style="width:3em;font-size:90%;" | AUS

Label: ACRA (Desk Tape Series)

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! scope="row" | Live at Tamworth 1996 (credited to The Slim Dusty Family Show)

Released: 12 January 2025

! scope="row" | Encores

Released: 1969
Label: Columbia (330SX-9565)

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! scope="row" | The Best of Slim Dusty

Released: 1973
Label: World Record Club (S-5359)

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! scope="row" | Dusty Tracks

Released: 1973
Label: Axis (AXIS 6083)
Tracks recorded between 1959 and 1967

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! scope="row" | Dinki-Di Aussies

Released: 1974
Label: Axis (TC-AX-1095)
Tracks recorded between 1957 and 1969

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! scope="row" | The Best of Slim Dusty Volume 2

Released: 1975
Label: Columbia (SCX-8021)

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! scope="row" | Way Out There

Released: 1975
Label: Axis
Tracks recorded between 1957 and 1964

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! scope="row" | This Is Your Life

Released: 1976
Label: EMI (SCXA 8033)

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! scope="row" | Songs from Down Under

Released: 1976
Label: Axis (TC-AX- 10306)
Tracks recorded between 1959 and 1972

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! scope="row" | Slim Dusty Sings His Favourite Songs

Released: 1976
Label: World Record Club (R-60533)

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! scope="row" | Travelling Country Man

Released: 1977
Label: Axis (TC-AX- 10334)
Tracks recorded between 1959 and 1973

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! scope="row" | A Guitar and a Hat

Released: February 1979
Label: World Record Club (90544, C 90545, C 90546)
3× vinyl box set

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! scope="row" | Rarities

Released: 1979
Label: EMI (SD.1)
Tracks recorded between 1942 and 1945

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! scope="row" | Rodeo Riders

Released: 1979
Label: Axis (6386)
Tracks recorded between 1960 and 1977

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! scope="row" | No. 50 The Golden Anniversary Album

Released: April 1981
Label: EMI Music (PLAY1004)

| 10

! scope="row" | Slim Dusty ....Vintage Album 1

Released: 1982
Label: EMI/Columbia (TC 7998684)

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! scope="row" | Slim Dusty ....Vintage Album 2

Released: 1983
Label: EMI/Columbia

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! scope="row" | I Haven't Changed a Bit

Released: 1983
Label: Axis (AX-701306)

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! scope="row" | The Best of Slim Dusty

Released: 1984
Label: EMI/ Reader's Digest (Oz-RD4-386)
6× LP box set

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ARIA: Gold

! scope="row" | I'll Take Mine Country Style

Released: 1985
Label: Axis (AX-430027)

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ARIA: Gold

Released: February 1992
Label:
Tracks recorded between 1958 and 1960

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! scope="row" | A Land He Calls His Own

Released: August 1992
Label: EMI (251206–208)
Tracks recorded between 1966 and 1987
3× CD box set

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! scope="row" | The Anniversary Album No. 2 (1943-1993)

Released: December 1993
Label: EMI (7896102)

| 175

! scope="row" | Regal Zonophone Collection

Released: 16 October 1995
Label: EMI
Tracks recorded between 1946 and 1957
3×CD set

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! scope="row" | Country Classics

Released: 1996
Label: Reader's Digest (300701300)
Tracks recorded between 1947 and 1995
3×CD set

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ARIA: Gold

! scope="row" | Old Time Drover's Lament

Released: 1997
Label: EMI
Tracks recorded between 1957 and 1970

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! scope="row" | Down the Dusty Road

Released: 1998
Label: EMI (724381431627)

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! scope="row" | Talk About The Good Times

Released: 1998
Label: EMI
Tracks recorded between 1960 and 1975

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! scope="row" | The Very Best of Slim Dusty

Released: November 1998
Label: EMI (724349572829)

| 15

ARIA: 5× Platinum

! scope="row" | The Man Who Is Australia

Released: July 2000
Label: EMI (724352765321)
5xCD Set

| 70

! scope="row" | A Piece of Australia

Released: 15 January 2001
Label: EMI (724353107222)

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ARIA: Platinum

! scope="row" | Reunion (credited to The Slim Dusty Family)

Released: March 2008
Label: EMI (5198462)

| 15

! scope="row" | Sittin' On 80

Released: July 2009
Label: EMI (094638953227)
Tracks recorded between 1969 and 2002
4×CD set

| 20

! scope="row" | 1960's Classic Albums

Released: 28 September 2012
Label: EMI (7056652)
5×CD box set

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! scope="row" | 1970's Classic Albums

Released: 28 September 2012
Label: EMI (7056662)
5×CD box set

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! scope="row" | 1980's Classic Albums

Released: 28 September 2012
Label: EMI (7056672)
5×CD box set

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! scope="row" | 1990's Classic Albums

Released: 28 September 2012
Label: EMI (7056712)
5×CD box set

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! scope="row" | The Son of Noisy Dan: A Musical Autobiography

Released: 16 August 2013
Label: Universal Music (3747004)

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! scope="row" | Dusty By the Decades

Released: November 2014
Label: EMI Music (3796113)
6×CD box set

| 121

! scope="row" | The Den Tapes

Released: 13 November 2015
Label: EMI (4736241)
Recorded in the 1990s

| 27

! scope="row" | Prime Movers

Released: 15 July 2016
Label: EMI (4788793)

| 43

! scope="row" | Odds and Sods

Released: August 2017
Label: EMI (5749648)

| 51

! scope="row" | Gone Fishin

Released: 20 August 2021
Label: EMI (3847882)

| 11

! scope="row" | Christmas On the Station

Released: 25 November 2022
Label: EMI (4886132)

| 122

! scope="row" | Gone Truckin

Released: 4 October 2024
Label: EMI (5861876)

| 95

! scope="row" | Gone Bush

Released: 6 March 2026
Label: EMI (7844416)

|colspan="20" style="font-size:90%"| "—" denotes a recording that did not chart, position unknown or was not released in that territory.

Chronological list of all albums

Slim Dusty Sings (1960)
Songs for Rolling Stones (credited to Slim Dusty and His Bushlanders) (1961)
Along the Road of Song (1962)
Aussie Sing Song (credited to Slim Dusty and His Bushlanders) (1962)
Another Aussie Sing Song (credited to Slim Dusty and His Bushlanders) (1963)
Songs in the Saddle (1963)
Songs of Australia (1964)
People and Places (1964) (credited to Slim Dusty and His Bushlanders)
Australian Bush Ballads (1965)
The Nature of the Man (1966)
An Evening with Slim and Joy (1966) (with Joy McKean)
Essentially Australian (1967)
Songs My Father Sang to Me (1968)
Songs from the Cattle Camps (1968)
Sing Along with Dad (1968) (with Joy McKean, Anne and David)
Cattle Camp Crooner (1969)
Slim Dusty Encores (1969)
Sing a Happy Song (1970)
Songs from the Land I Love (1971)
Glory Bound Train (1971)
Live at Wagga Wagga (1972)
Me and My Guitar (1972)
Foolin' Around (1973) (with Joy McKean)
The Best of Slim Dusty (1973)
Live at Tamworth (1973)
Dusty Tracks (1973)
Tall Stories and Sad Songs (1973)
Australiana (1974)
Dinki Di Aussies (1974)
The Best of Slim Dusty Volume 2 (1975)
Lights on the Hill (1975)
Way Out There (1975)
Things I See Around Me (1976) (featuring The Travelling Country Band)
Give Me the Road (1976) (featuring The Travelling Country Band)
This Is Your Life (1976)
Songs from Down Under (1976)
Slim Dusty Sings His Favourite Songs (1976)
Just Slim with Old Friends (1977) (with Barry Thornton, Paul and Colleen Trenwith and Linsday Butler)
On the Move (1977) (with The new Travelling Country Band)
Travellin' Country Man (1977)
To Whom It May Concern (1978)
The Entertainer - Live at The Sydney Opera House (1978)
A Guitar and a Hat (1979)
Spirit of Australia (1979)
Slim Dusty Rarities (1979)
Rodeo Riders (1979)
Walk a Country Mile (1979)
The Man Who Steadies the Lead (1980)
Slim Dusty Family Album (1980)
No 50 - The Golden Anniversary Album (1981)
Where Country Is (1981)
Vintage Album Volume 1 (1981)
Who's Riding Old Harlequin Now (with The Travelling Country Band) (1981)
Vintage Album Volume 2 (1982)
On the Wallaby (1983)
I Haven't Changed a Bit (1983)
Trucks on the Track (1983)
Slim Dusty Movie (Soundtrack) (1984)
The Best of Slim Dusty (1984)
I'll Take Mine Country Style (1985)
Singer from Down Under (1985)
To a Mate (1985)
Australia Is His Name (1985)
Stories I Wanted to Tell (1986)
Vintage Album Volume 3 (1986)
Beer Drinking Songs of Australia (1986)
Cattlemen from the High Plains (1987)
Neon City (1987)
Country Livin (1987)
The Heritage Album (1988)
Slim Dusty Sings Stan Coster (1988)
G'day G'day! (1988)
King of Kalgoorlie (1989)
Vintage Album Volume 4 (1989)
Two Singers One Song(with Anne Kirkpatrick) (1989)
Henry Lawson and Banjo Paterson (1990)
Coming Home (1990)
Slim Dusty Sings Joy McKean (1991)
Vintage Album Volume 5 (1991)
A Land He Calls Our Own (1992)
Live Into the '90s (1992)
Travellin' Guitar (1992)
That's the Song We're Singing (1992)
Ringer from the Top End (1993)
The Anniversary Album No. 2 (1943-1993) (1993)
Natural High (1994)
Country Way of Life (1995)
Regal Zonophone Collection (1995)
The Slim Dusty Show (Live in Townsville 1956) (1996)
Country Classics (1996)
91 Over 50 (1996)
A Time to Remember (1997)
Talk About the Good Times (1997)
Old Time Drover's Lament (1997)
Makin' a Mile (1997)
Land Of Lots Of Time, EMI Music (1997)
Down the Dusty Road (1998)
The Very Best of Slim Dusty (1998)
Nighty Night (aka 99) (1999)
Looking Forward Looking Back (2000)
The Man Who Is Australia (2000)
A Piece of Australia (2000)
Ramblin' Shoes 1953-1976 (2000)
Ramblin' Shoes Vol.2 1980-2000 (2000)
West of Winton (2001)
The Men From Nulla Nulla (with Shorty Ranger) (2001)
Travellin' Still...Always Will (with Anne Kirkpatrick) (2002)
Columbia Lane - the Last Sessions (2004)
Slim Dusty Live (aka Live)(2006)
Pubs, Trucks & Plains (2007)
Reunion (credited to The Slim Dusty Family) (2008)
Sittin' On 80 (2009)
I've Been There And Back Again (2011)
1960's Classic Albums (2012)
1970's Classic Albums (2012)
1980's Classic Albums (2012)
1990's Classic Albums (2012)
The Son of Noisy Dan: A Musical Autobiography (2013)
Dusty By the Decades (2014)
The Den Tapes (2015)
Prime Movers (2016)
Odds and Sods (2017)
Slim and I (Soundtrack) (credited to Slim Dusty and various artists) (2020)
Gone Fishin (2021)
Christmas On the Station (2022)
Gone Truckin (2024)
Live at Tamworth 1996 (As The Slim Dusty Travelling Country Band Reunion Show) (2025)
Live at Tamworth 1996 (As The Slim Dusty Family Show) (2025)
Gone Bush (2026)

Charted and/or certified singles

During his career, Dusty had five top 40 hits on the Australian charts, with "A Pub With No Beer" and "Duncan" both reaching number one in 1958 and 1980 respectively.

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! scope="col" rowspan="2"| Year

! scope="col" rowspan="2"| Title

! scope="col" colspan="2"| Chart positions

! scope="col" rowspan="2"| Certifications

! scope="col" style="width:3em;font-size:90%"| AUS

! scope="col" style="width:3em;font-size:90%"| UK

|rowspan="3"|1958

|"A Pub with No Beer"

|align="center"|1

|align="center"|3

AUS: Gold

|"The Answer to a Pub with No Beer"

|align="center"|12

|align="center"|—

|"Sequel to a Pub with No Beer"

|align="center"|23

|align="center"|—

|1960

|"Waltzing Matilda"

|align="center"|—

ARIA: Gold

|1994

|"Charleville"

|align="center"|150

|align="center"|—

|2000

|"Looking Forward Looking Back"

|align="center"|171

|align="center"|—

ARIA: Gold