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Justin Landers
Introducing the new album from Justin Landers, “Free Time and Money” . Click image to listen on your preferred Digital Media platform.
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Biography
Justin Landers has a passion for the bush and performance. Hailing from Orange in the Central West of New South Wales, the Traditional Country Singer Songwriter brings rich vocal tones and heartfelt stories that express a true authentic country flavour.
Justin’s influences roll out like a red carpeted list of country greats …..Alan Jackson, George Strait, Glen Campbell, John Denver, Kenny Rogers, Patsy Cline, Dolly Parton, Merle Haggard, and local legends Slim Dusty, Adam Harvey, Troy Cassar-Daley and Ray & Lee Kernaghan.
Justin began performing as a professional soloist in late 2013 and soon after, turned his hand to songwriting. His original songs are life inspired and relatable on a personal level. Prior to this, Justin has 20 years’ experience as a performer & musician with the majority of this time spent in the popular Orange based duos ‘Warp II’ & ‘Guess What’.
Justin is a much sought after performer in the Central West with a prevalent following of loyal fans who are drawn to his friendly nature, charm and his high spirited performances. Justin’s versatility is a definite plus and to his acclaim he has performed in “The 2019 Bedgerabong Country Music Campout Festival”, ‘The Dubbo Country Music Spectacular’, ‘Orange JAM Festival’, ‘Dusty Boots Festival’ and numerous Corporate Events and Venues all over the central west of NSW.
To his attribute, Justin was awarded the Ken Pritchard Memorial ‘Dusty Boot Award’ for Services to Country Music in June 2021 and has also been credited with finalist positions in the Tamworth Song Writer Salute Awards (TSA) for a number of his original songs in 2019, 2020, 2021& 2022. In January 2022 Justin was awarded the “TSA Bluegrass Song of the Year” award for his song "Always Kiss Her Goodnight".
December 2017 marked the release of his self-recorded and self-produced debut album titled ‘None But Ned’. The album, containing ten tracks with four of his originals, received substantial radio airplay on the Community Radio Network Australia Wide, on on-line digital stations around the globe, and was also featured as "Album of the Week" on the very popular nationally broadcast breakfast show, ‘Good Morning Country’.
Justin later released his song ‘My Old Man’ as a standalone single in November 2018. This track peaked at a respectable #18 on the Tasmanian Country Chart, where it remained on the chart for 8 weeks.
In July 2019, Justin engaged the much sort after Simon Johnson at Hillbilly Hut Records to produce and master his upcoming album resulting in the early release of his first single from the album, ‘A Campfire Waltz’. This single saw Justin take his songwriting credibility to a whole new level with the song offering up a beautiful example of real country storytelling on a silver platter, leaving the listener floating in wonderful images of a campfire romance. Debuting at #30, his single very quickly rocketed to a top ten position peaking at #8 on the Country Songs Top 40 Australian Airplay Chart. Justin was also credited as a finalist in the Tamworth Songwriters Association (TSA) Songwriters Salute Awards 2020 for A Campfire Waltz.
January 2020 summoned Justin to offer up yet another fine example of his storytelling and songwriting skills to the world with his second early release single, ‘How ‘Bout This Weather’. The song tells of an accidental meeting in the street after a relationship breakup. This rather catchy, unique and somewhat novel tune also peaked in a top ten position at #8 on the Country Songs Top 40 Australian Airplay Chart and remained in the chart for an impressive 12 weeks and is still receiving substantial radio airplay to date. How ‘Bout This Weather was also a finalist in the Country Rock section for TSA Songwriters Salute Awards for 2021.
September 2020 saw Justin release his third and final “early” release, ‘Be A Little Kinder’ from his upcoming album. Written during the height of the first Australian COVID lockdown, this wholehearted traditional country song asks listeners to question their own mortality and actions on various issues affecting the world at this time and to consider being a little kinder. This song peaked at #6 and #2 on the Country Songs Top 40 Australian Airplay Chart and the Tasmanian & OzCMR Country Chart respectively. Be A Little Kinder reached #2 in the top ten most requested songs on Today’s Country 94 One (Nov 2020) and was also a finalist in Traditional Country Song section of the TSA Songwriters Salute Awards for 2021.
January 2022 - Justin was presented with the “TSA Bluegrass Song of the Year” award for his song "Always Kiss Her Goodnight". The tongue-in-cheek bluegrass style song tells a story about a husband complaining about his demanding wife, but he knows it’s important to show her that he loves her at the end of each day. Justin’s song “The Corner Store” was also a TSA top 5 finalist in the very competitive Traditional Country Song section in the same year.
Over the past year or so, Justin has been working hard in the studio with Simon Johnson and the Hillbilly Hut Records Team on his newly released album titled, Free Time And Money. The album is available now on all digital media stores. CD copies of the album can be purchased directly from Justin or from this website.
The album contains 10 all original songs written by Justin and features the pre-released singles, A Campfire Waltz, How ‘Bout This Weather, Be A Little kinder and a heap of new engaging songs written in a variety of Country music styles.
Justin is a member of the Country Music Association of Australia (CMAA), the Tamworth Songwriters Association (TSA), the Dubbo Country Music Association, the Forbes Country Music Club Inc, and is a full writer member of the Australasian Performer Right Association and the Australasian Mechanical Copyright Owners Society (APRA-AMCOS).
Awards
Ken Pritchard Memorial Dusty Boot Award
For services to country music - June 2021
(Photo by Donna Maree Photography - Award Presented by Kirsten Minnick)
Tamworth Songwriters Association -Bluegrass Song of the Year Award
“Always Kiss Her Goodnight” - Bluegrass Section - Jan 2022
(TSA awards presented online due to Covid-19 Restrictions - Photo by Nathanial Landers)
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