I only have one concrete memory of Aussie music icon Slim Dusty, and as embarrassing as it may seem, I’m fairly certain I’m not the only one in my generation who remembers him for this. It was when he did a duet with the Wiggles on I Love To Have A Dance With Dorothy, a kid-friendly reworking of his drinking song Duncan. Wiggly Wiggly World was in pretty heavy rotation for me as a kid, and to this day, it’s one of the main things I remember from my childhood. Even listening to it today, it gets my toes tapping… and fills me with a slight melancholy, as the singer tragically passed away from cancer when I was only eight years old. And yet that one core recollection I have of him, singing about mates joining together in dance, oddly fits with the depiction of him given in this documentary about him and his wife Joy McKean.
