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Better Than Yesterday: Osher Günsberg
When creative superpowers combine, it makes me want to dance. (with Paul Dempsey and Bernard Fanning)
What would you do if you had nothing to prove?
If you were free to make any project you liked, in whatever shape you liked, to reflect your experience in that moment?
Better yet - what if you got to do all of this with a close mate you’ve known for over 20 years?
That pretty much describes the conversation Osher has around the new music from Bernard Fanning and Paul Dempsey.
Two seminal Australian singer songwriters, they both have enormous careers and a legacy of music which has been the soundtrack to Australian life for nearly 30 years.
Yet when they team up - the music they make sounds nothing like Powderfinger or Something for Kate - yet is still so very distinctly them.
The new album is “The Deluge” - “Fanning Dempsey National Park”.
Are touring in Oct - OG will see you there.
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