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Smoky Dawson LOVE, LIFE & COUNTRY MUSIC

Known as Australia’s first singing cowboy, country musician and all-round entertainer Smoky Dawson was a legend beyond his years. A new book celebrates the Collingwood-born icon’s career, which spanned from the 1930s until his death at 94 in 2008, and his adoration for his “radiant and loving” wife Dot, which lasted just as long.

In two exclusive extracts from , he recalls how Dot, a broadcaster

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