Mallee Boy

{{Use dmy dates|date=September 2018}} {{Infobox album | name = Mallee Boy | type = album | artist = John Williamson | cover = Mallee_Boy_by_John_Williamson.jpg | alt = | released = November 1986 | recorded = | venue = | studio = Trafalgar Studios; Sydney, Australia. | genre = | length = | label = Gumleaf Records, Festival Records | producer = John Williamson | prev_title = All the Best | prev_year = 1986 | next_title = Boomerang Café | next_year = 1988 | misc = {{Singles | name = Mallee Boy | type = studio | single1 = True Blue | single1date = September 1986 | single2 = Raining on the Rock | single2date = January 1987 | single3 = Cootamundra Wattle | single3date = April 1987 }}}}

'''''Mallee Boy''''' is the sixth studio album by Australian country music artist John Williamson. The album was released in November 1986 and peaked at number 9 on the Kent Music Report; becoming Williamson's first top ten album.<ref name="YbY">{{Cite web|url=http://johnwilliamson.com.au/year-by-year/|title=Year by Year|publisher=John Williamson|accessdate=16 September 2018}}</ref>

At the inaugural ARIA Music Awards of 1987, the album won Best Country Album.<ref name="ARIANoms">{{cite web | url = http://www.ariaawards.com.au/history/search?q=John+Williamson | title = ARIA Awards – Search Results for 'John Williamson' | publisher = Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) | accessdate = 25 October 2012 }}</ref> At the 1987 Country Music Association of Australia, the album won Album of the Year. At the 1988 awards, the album won Top Selling Album.<ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.country.com.au/index.cfm?page_id=1011 | title = About the CMAA Country Music Awards of Australia | publisher = Country Music Association of Australia (CMAA) | accessdate = 23 September 2018 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080719040922/http://country.com.au/index.cfm?page_id=1011 | archive-date = 19 July 2008 | url-status = dead }}</ref>

==Reception and legacy== In 2014, Chris Johnston from Sydney Morning Herald said "The best John Williamson songs on his best album ''Mallee Boy'' are among the finest representations of (and romances with) Australia in our culture." adding "''Mallee Boy'''s wonderful "Galleries of Pink Galahs", "Raining on the Rock", "True Blue" and "Cootamundra Wattle" are superb, poignant songs about the beauties and paradoxes of this country.".<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/music/the-crate-john-williamsons-mallee-boy-20140904-10byo2.html|title=The Crate: John Williamson's Mallee Boy |publisher=Sydney Morning Herald|date= 4 September 2014|accessdate=23 September 2018}}</ref>

==Track listing== {{Track listing | total_length = | headline = Side A | title1 = Mallee Boy | writer1 = John Williamson | length1 = 3:18 | title2 = Galleries Of Pink Galahs | writer2 = Williamson | length2 = 3:59 | title3 = Back at the Isa | writer3 = Williamson | length3 = 2:18 | title4 = Raining on the Rock | writer4 = Williamson | length4 = 4:27 | title5 = Three Rivers Hotel | writer5 = Stan Coster | length5 = 3:26 | title6 = Cracker Night | writer6 = Williamson, Tony Dennett | length6 = 2:55 | title7 = True Blue | writer7 = Williamson | length7 = 4:00 }}

{{Track listing | total_length = | headline = Side B | title1 = Humpin' My Bluey | writer1 = Williamson | length1 = 3:03 | title2 = The Budgie Song | writer2 = Williamson | length2 = 2:36 | title3 = I'm in the Mood | writer3 = Williamson | length3 = 2:55 | title4 = Cootamundra Wattle | writer4 = Williamson | length4 = 3:48 | title5 = Paint Me a Wheelbarrow | writer5 = Williamson | length5 = 2:40 | title6 = Diamantina Drover | writer6 = Hugh McDonald | length6 = 2:58 | title7 = Show Me a Better Way | writer7 = Williamson | length7 = 3:24 }}

==Chart positions== ===Weekly charts=== {| class="wikitable plainrowheaders" style="text-align:center" !Chart (1986/87) !Peak<br>position |- ! scope="row"| Australian Kent Music Report Albums Chart<ref name="Kent">{{Cite book|title=Australian Chart Book 1970–1992 |last=Kent|first=David|publisher=Australian Chart Book, St Ives, N.S.W |year=1993|isbn=0-646-11917-6}}</ref> | 9 |- |}

===Year-end charts=== {| class="wikitable plainrowheaders" style="text-align:center" !Chart (1987) !Position |- ! scope="row"| Australian Kent Music Report Albums Chart<ref name="Kent"/> | 24 |- |}

==Release history== {| class="wikitable plainrowheaders" |- ! scope="col"| Country ! scope="col"| Date ! scope="col"| Format ! scope="col"| Label ! scope="col"| Catalogue |- ! scope="row"| Australia | November 1986 | {{flat list| *Vinyl Record *CD *Cassette}} | Gum Leaf, Festival Records | RML 53221 |- |}

==References== {{Reflist}}

Category:1986 albums Category:Festival Records albums Category:John Williamson (singer) albums Category:ARIA Award–winning albums