James Blundell’s gently lilting songs and distinctive vocals have been part of the Australian country music landscape since his emergence in the late 1980s. Throughout his career, he’s brought clear folk influences into his music, as evidenced by the harmonica melody that opens “Time on His Hands” from the 1990 album Hand It Down, all the way to “Money Changes Everything,” a fiddle-led duet with Bec Lavelle recorded almost 30 years later. Raised on a sheep and cattle station in Queensland—a property he now manages—he’s often written songs which act as love letters to his home country. He’s perhaps best known for the 1992 song “Way Out West,” a version of The Dingoes’ track recorded with James Reyne which went on to become his biggest charting hit, but he’s also not afraid to speak his mind, as evidenced by the release of the anti-Iraq War song “Postcards From Saigon.”