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Speaker 1: This is jam Nation with Jonesy.

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Speaker 2: What's th realed to be speaking with our next guest.

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Speaker 2: Thirty years ago he changed the face of Australian country

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Speaker 2: music forever, and he's back with a part concert, a

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Speaker 2: part road movie, celebrating his life with stacks of albums, awards.

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Speaker 1: And a remarkable legacy behind him.

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Speaker 2: It's a delight to say hello to the boy from

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Speaker 2: the bush Ley Kernigan Highmanda Jonesy with you.

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Speaker 3: Great to have you mate. We're zooming in on Kernighan

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Speaker 3: Headquarters there. This is your office. What a great office.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 4: Well, I've got a little studio here and I've written

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Speaker 4: a lot of songs over the years, so sort of

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Speaker 4: sort of all happens.

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Speaker 3: I thought it might be a little bit more rustic.

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Speaker 3: There'd be like a set of steel horns or something

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Speaker 3: like that, or is that a bit cliched.

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Speaker 4: I got a place up in the bush, up in

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Speaker 4: the hills where I do get all of that rustic

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Speaker 4: stuff out of my system.

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Speaker 1: And here you've got a flushing toilet. So that's the

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Speaker 1: main thing.

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Speaker 2: This movie looks incredible and it's also a love story,

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Speaker 2: isn't it. To the Australian out back and to the

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Speaker 2: characters you've met through your life that have inspired your songs.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, well, I said to Kris Standers, who directed the movie,

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Speaker 4: I said, mate, I'd love to be involved in Universal

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Speaker 4: Pictures sort of contacted us back in twenty twenty one

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Speaker 4: and I said, but I really like this movie to

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Speaker 4: be about Australia, about the towns and the people that

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Speaker 4: inspired the songs, because I think I'm a bit too

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Speaker 4: boring to make a movie just about me. So anyway,

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Speaker 4: he sort of ran with that, and I was really

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Speaker 4: really happy with the way it came out.

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Speaker 2: What are some of the characters or who are some

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Speaker 2: of the characters that have just stayed with you that

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Speaker 2: you've met through your incredible travels around the country.

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Speaker 4: Well, there's one fella that is actually in the movie.

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Speaker 4: His name is Troy Hofmeyer. And I wrote a song

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Speaker 4: called Texas QLD four three eight five about the little

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Speaker 4: Queensland border town, and Troy Hofmeier loved the song so

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Speaker 4: much he actually moved to the town and he bought

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Speaker 4: Ford's General Store and he's still there today, living in.

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Speaker 3: Texas because of that song.

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Speaker 4: Because of that song, So in the movie, I've sort

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Speaker 4: of dropped in on Troy and visit his general store

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Speaker 4: and he's kind of got a shrine of all of

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Speaker 4: these awards and memorabilia out there at the service station

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Speaker 4: in General. And then we headed out to We headed

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Speaker 4: out to the banks of the Demerick River just outside

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Speaker 4: of Texas and I joined a Zaiah Firebrace and Mitch Tambo,

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Speaker 4: two great indigenous starts, a lot of reform. We did

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Speaker 4: some songwriting out there and sat around a campfire. Mitch

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Speaker 4: was playing the didgeridoo. It was just magic. We had

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Speaker 4: a smoking ceremony. It just incredible.

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Speaker 3: What's your when you there's one town in Australia that

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Speaker 3: you would just love to live in for the rest

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Speaker 3: of your life, other than the one you're currently living in.

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Speaker 3: What would it be?

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Speaker 4: Oh? Maybe Ineloquent.

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Speaker 3: Muster, That's it.

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Speaker 4: And every year you get about twenty thousand loving legends

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Speaker 4: arriving into that town and it's no holes barred party time.

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Speaker 4: So it's one of my favorite places to get A man.

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Speaker 3: Has been hanging to get down there to do some

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Speaker 3: circle work. Have you ever thought about collaborating with some

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Speaker 3: of the rap artists to do like a little little

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Speaker 3: nars X type old town road with Billy Ray Cyrus

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Speaker 3: type collaboration.

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Speaker 1: Maybe you're a little poopy, little poopy or little yochty.

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Speaker 4: I would love that. I love it, and I love

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Speaker 4: the way that this is happening a lot like Caane

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Speaker 4: Brown and Yeah the Billy Ray Cyrus, Goyah of course,

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Speaker 4: and lots of other collaborations. I love the way, you know,

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Speaker 4: those two genres like hip hop and rap merge with

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Speaker 4: country music. I'm into it.

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Speaker 3: Maybe should get like Lupai Fiasco. He did that thing

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Speaker 3: with Guy Sebastian, you know, Battle Scars. I just love

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Speaker 3: the name Loupai Fiasco.

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Speaker 1: We'll go through olddicts of the little What.

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Speaker 3: About Lee Kernighan and Fiasco, Lee's Fiasco? This is no

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Speaker 3: one's writing this down.

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Speaker 1: Well, look, these things have to be a bit more

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Speaker 1: organic than that.

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Speaker 3: I just feel that we're in Lee's office at the

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Speaker 3: moment and he's got business face on. This could be

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Speaker 3: something that, you know, I could be like Colonel Tom Parky.

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Speaker 1: And encouraging a bit more bling on Lee.

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Speaker 3: Can you can you get some bling and a neck tattoo.

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Speaker 1: And a diamond.

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Speaker 4: I'll do anything to get airplay on w S.

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Speaker 1: You know, this is.

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Speaker 2: What's incredible about your career because Australian country artists don't

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Speaker 2: get a lot of airplay, and yet you are so famous.

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Speaker 2: How it's the live stuff, isn't it that just makes

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Speaker 2: you so well known infamous?

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Speaker 4: Look, I think it's just the songs and the way

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Speaker 4: that they resonate with people and their hearts and their minds,

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Speaker 4: and good, good country songs have a pretty long shelf life,

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Speaker 4: like they can last for decades. So I've been pretty

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Speaker 4: fortunate to be able to get some good songs out

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Speaker 4: over the last twenty thirty years.

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Speaker 1: That still touch people absolutely.

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Speaker 3: There's plenty to go, Lee Curning and Boy from the

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Speaker 3: Bush releases in cinemas on Wednesday night. Lee, look for

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Speaker 3: us at the Denny Ute Muster. We'll be down there

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Speaker 3: in our h Z Tanna. Amanda's going to be on

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Speaker 3: the back and we'll just be doing some circle work.

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Speaker 1: It almost sounds like English.

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Speaker 4: And Amanda. I've got a Yute Me Girls tank top

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Speaker 4: on the way to you.

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Speaker 1: Oh yes, please, thank you.

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Speaker 4: Lee