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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
Lifestyle
As told to Katie Cunningham

Three things with Troy Cassar-Daley: ‘Johnny Cash wanted to strum my guitar before he signed it’

Country musician and Gumbaynggirr/Bundjalung man Troy Cassar-Daley
Country musician and Gumbaynggirr/Bundjalung man Troy Cassar-Daley. His latest album Between the Fires is out now Photograph: supplied

Troy Cassar-Daley is one of Australia’s biggest and busiest names in country music. With a career that has spanned three decades, the Gumbaynggirr/Bundjalung man has released 13 studio albums, picked up five Arias and been honoured with 40 Golden Guitar awards – the prizes handed out each year at the Tamworth country music festival.

Cassar-Daley’s most prized possession is a guitar he had signed by country supergroup the Highwaymen on a tour many moons ago. Here Cassar-Daley shares the story of that priceless instrument, as well as two useful tools of the trade – one highly specialised, the other wonderfully everyday.

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