Episode 5: Allan Caswell


With over 800 songs published and over 500 recordings Allan Caswell is the most published songwriter in Australia.
His songs has been released world wide by artists of the calibre of Cilla Black, The Irish Rovers, Patti Page, Slim Dusty, James Blundell, Graeme Connors, The Wolfe Brothers, Anne Kirkpatrick, Chad Morgan, Beccy Cole, Ella Hooper and The Living End among dozens of others.
His career as an entertainer has taken him to almost every town in NSW, and every state in Australia, to New York, LA, Nashville, New Zealand, Timor East, Iraq and Afghanistan.
He has worked live with Garth Brooks, Don McLean, Gerry and the Pacemakers, Herman’s Hermits, Pam Ayers, The Little River Band and in studio with Tommy Emmanuel, Vince Gill, Kathy Mattea, and Highway 101.
A glittering career in Country Music in Australia awarded him with 8 Golden Guitars (Country Music Awards Of Australia); 9 Awards at the Independent Country Music Awards (Southern Stars) including Album Of The Year 3 times, and has also been awarded with 12 songwriting Awards from the Tamworth Songwriters Association, including ‘The Songmaker Award’, a virtual Hall Of Fame for country songwriters.
He has also built a big reputation as a writer of children’s songs as, among other projects, the co-writer and co-producer of the hugely successful Don Spencer albums and cowriter of many of Amber Lawrence’s acclaimed children’s songs.
At the 2018 Tamworth Country Music Festival has been inducted into the prestigious Galaxy Of Stars. It was recognition for the huge contribution he has made to Australian Country Music as a songwriter, performer, producer and author. He is the go to cowriter for many of Australia’s top artists.

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