Vic Simms

Last week Vic Simms' recording of "The Loner" was added to the National Film and Sound Archives Sounds of Australia. I personally find this significant because I recorded Vic in 2007, for a special recording of some the Loner tracks which he has hardly revisited in the last 30 years. Vic is an indigenous Australian who became a recording artist at 15 years of age. In 1973 he found himself in jail and RCA took a mobile recording unit in and he recorded "The Loner" album. Click here for more info on Vic.

And to hear the program we made about the ABC recording sessions with Vic talking about his experiences and bits of the recordings I made click here. Unfortunately the online audio is a bit distorted, not my fault.