# Slim Dusty discography

The discography of Slim Dusty (1927–2003) (AO, MBE), an Australian country music singer, consists of 122 records, 61 studio albums.
By March 1976, Dusty had achieved 37 gold and two platinum records. By November 1979, this Dusty had amassed 63 gold and platinum albums.
In 2018, it was reported Dusty had sold more than seven million records and earned over 70 gold and platinum album certifications.
Dusty had number singles with "A Pub with No Beer" (1958) and "Duncan" (1980). In 2000 his 100th album Looking Forward Looking Back won the ARIA Award for Best Country Album
NB: Chart positions prior to 1970 are unknown. Certifications prior to 1990 are unknown.

## Albums
### Studio albums

| Title | Album details | Chart positions | Certifications (sales thresholds) |
| Title | Album details | AUS | Certifications (sales thresholds) |
| Slim Dusty Sings | Released: 1960 Label: EMI Music/Columbia (330SX-7611) | — | |
| Songs for Rolling Stones (credited to Slim Dusty And His Bushlanders) | Released: 1961 Label: EMI/Columbia (33OSX-7642) | — | |
| Along the Road of Song | Released: 1962 Label: EMI/Columbia (33OSX-7654) | — | |
| Aussie Sing Song (credited to Slim Dusty And His Bushlanders) | Released: 1962 Label: EMI/Columbia (33OSX-7668) AKA Slim Dusty Sing Song | — | |
| Another Aussie Sing Song (credited to Slim Dusty And His Bushlanders) | Released: 1963 Label: EMI/Columbia (33OSX-7689) | — | |
| Songs in the Saddle | Released: 1963 Label: EMI/Columbia (33OSX-7697) | — | |
| Songs of Australia | Released: 1964 Label: EMI/Columbia (33OSX-7713) | — | |
| People and Places (credited to Slim Dusty And His Bushlanders) | Released: 1964 Label: EMI/Columbia | — | |
| Australian Bush Ballads | Released: 1965 Label: EMI/Columbia (33OSX-7745) | — | |
| The Nature of Man | Released: 1966 Label: EMI/Columbia | — | |
| An Evening with Slim and Joy (with Joy McKean) | Released: 1966 Label: EMI/Columbia (33OSX-7761) | — | |
| Essentially Australian | Released: 1967 Label: EMI/Columbia (33OSX-7790) | — | ARIA: Gold |
| Songs My Father Sang to Me | Released: 1967 Label: EMI/Columbia (33OSX-7814) | — | |
| Songs from the Cattle Camps | Released: 1968 Label: EMI/Columbia (33OSX-7846) | — | |
| Sing Along with Dad (with Joy McKean, Anne and David) | Released: 1968 Label: EMI/Columbia | — | |
| Cattle Camp Crooner | Released: 1969 Label: EMI/Columbia (33OSX-7902) | — | |
| Sing a Happy Song | Released: 1970 Label: EMI/Columbia | — | |
| Songs from the Land I Love | Released: 1971 Label: EMI/Columbia (SCX-7987) | — | |
| Glory Bound Train | Released: 1971 Label: EMI/Columbia (SCX-7993) | — | |
| Me and My Guitar | Released: 1972 Label: EMI/Columbia (SCX-7999) | — | |
| Foolin' Around (with Joy McKean) | Released: 1973 Label: EMI/Columbia | — | |
| Tall Stories and Sad Songs | Released: 1973 Label: EMI/Columbia (SCX-8016) | — | |
| Australiana | Released: August 1974 Label: EMI/Columbia (SCX-8018) | 96 | |
| Lights on the Hill | Released: August 1975 Label: EMI/Columbia (SCX-8028) | 45 | ARIA: 5× Gold |
| Things I See Around Me (featuring The Travelling Country Band) | Released: June 1976 Label: EMI/Columbia (SCX-8030) | 62 | |
| Give Me the Road (featuring The Travelling Country Band) | Released: October 1976 Label: EMI/Columbia (SCX-8032) | 81 | |
| Just Slim With Old Friends (with Barry Thornton, Paul and Colleen Trenwith and Linsday Butler) | Released: 1977 Label: EMI/Columbia (SCX-8034) | — | |
| On the Move (with The new Travelling Country Band) | Released: September 1977 Label: EMI/Columbia (SCX-8035) | 59 | |
| To Whom it May Concern | Released: August 1978 Label: EMI/Columbia (SCX-8037) | 64 | |
| Spirit of Australia | Released: May 1979 Label: EMI/Columbia (SCX-8038) | 79 | |
| Walk a Country Mile | Released: October 1979 Label: EMI/Columbia (SCX-8039) | 58 | ARIA: Gold |
| The Man Who Steadies the Lead | Released: August 1980 Label: EMI/Columbia (SCX-8040) | 61 | |
| The Slim Dusty Family Album | Released: December 1980 Label: EMI/Columbia (SCX-8041) | 65 | |
| Where Country Is | Released: September 1981 Label: EMI/Columbia (SCX-8042) | 59 | |
| Who's Riding Old Harlequin Now? (with The Travelling Country Band) | Released: October 1982 Label: EMI/Columbia (SCX-8044) | 90 | |
| On the Wallaby | Released: July 1983 Label: EMI/Columbia (SCX-8045) | 76 | |
| Trucks on the Track | Released: May 1984 Label: EMI/Columbia (SCXO-430002) | 50 | ARIA: Gold |
| Singer from Down Under | Released: July 1985 Label: EMI/Columbia (EMC 263) | 78 | |
| To a Mate (Slim Dusty Remembers "Mack" Cormack) | Released: 1985 Label: EMI/Columbia (TC-FA.157016) | — | |
| Stories I Wanted to Tell | Released: 1986 Label: EMI/Columbia (SCXO-430037) | — | |
| Beer Drinking Songs of Australia | Released: November 1986 Label: EMI/Columbia (SCXO-430045) | 77 | |
| Neon City | Released: September 1987 Label: EMI/Columbia (SCXO-430058) | 86 | |
| Cattlemen from the High Plains | Released: February 1988 Label: CEMI/Columbia (SCXO-748656) | 95 | |
| G'day, G'day | Released: 12 December 1988 Label: EMI/Columbia (SCXO-791447) | 78 | ARIA: Gold |
| King of Kalgoorlie | Released: August 1989 Label: EMI/Columbia (SCXO-792455) | 85 | |
| Two Singers One Song (with Anne Kirkpatrick) | Released: 16 October 1989 Label: Columbia (SCXO-793190) | — | |
| Coming Home | Released: 29 October 1990 Label: Columbia (SCXO-795282) | 98 | |
| That's The Song We're Singing | Released: 9 November 1992 Label: Columbia | 123 | |
| Ringer from the Top End | Released: 4 October 1993 Label: EMI (8271942) | 65 | |
| Natural High | Released: 10 October 1994 Label: EMI (8303472) | 95 | |
| Country Way of Life | Released: 28 August 1995 Label: EMI (8145722) | 71 | |
| A Time to Remember | Released: 14 April 1997 Label: EMI (724385673221) | 34 | |
| Makin' a Mile | Released: 31 October 1997 Label: EMI (724382330424) | 34 | ARIA: Gold |
| West of Winton | Released: 1999 (Later withdrawn) Reissued: 15 October 2001 Label: EMI (4957392) | — | |
| Ninety Nine | Released: 25 October 1999 Label: EMI (5234884) | 50 | |
| Looking Forward Looking Back | Released: 17 July 2000 Label: EMI (5271604) | 3 | ARIA: 2× Platinum |
| The Men From Nulla Nulla (credited to Slim Dusty and Shorty Ranger) | Released: 15 October 2001 Label: EMI (5362432) | — | |
| Travellin' Still...Always Will (with Anne Kirkpatrick) | Released: 18 March 2002 Label: EMI (724353803421) | 37 | ARIA: Gold |
| Columbia Lane – the Last Sessions | Released: 1 March 2004 Label: EMI (724357729024) | 5 | ARIA: Gold ARIA: Gold (with 91 Over 50) |
| "—" denotes a recording that did not chart, position unknown or was not released in that territory. ||||

### Soundtrack albums

| Title | Album details | Chart positions |
| Title | Album details | AUS |
| The Slim Dusty Movie | Released: August 1984 Label: EMI Music (VMP.430004/2) | 73 |
| I've Been There and Back Again (The Soundtrack to the Joy McKean Book) | Released: 2011 Label: EMI Tracks recorded between 1940 and 2001 | — |
| Slim and I (Slim Dusty & Various Artists) | Released: 4 September 2020 Label: EMI (0748837) | 8 |

### Live albums

| Title | Album details | Chart positions | Certifications |
| Title | Album details | AUS | Certifications |
| Live at Wagga Wagga | Released: 1972 Label: Axis (AXIS 6017) | — | ARIA: Gold |
| Live at Tamworth | Released: 1973 Label: Columbia/EMI (TVSS-12) | — | |
| The Entertainer (Live at the Sydney Opera House) | Released: 1978 Label: Columbia/EMI (VMP-1062) | — | |
| Live Across Australia (credited to The Slim Dusty Family) | Released: 1986 Label: Axis (AX.701234) Recorded in 1983 | — | |
| Live into the '90s | Released: 4 May 1992 Label: EMI (7990252) Recorded in 1991 | 92 | |
| The Slim Dusty Show (Live in Townsville 1956) | Released: 22 January 1996 Label: EMI (8324072) Recorded in 1956 | — | |
| 91 Over 50 | Released: 26 August 1996 Label: EMI (8147122) Recorded in 1996 | 46 | ARIA: Gold (with Columbia Lane – the Last Sessions) |
| Slim Dusty Live | Released: 11 March 2006 Label: EMI Music (3524912) Recorded in 2000 | 42 | |
| Live at Tamworth 1996 (credited The Slim Dusty Travelling Country Band Reunion Show) | Released: 12 January 2025 Label: ACRA (Desk Tape Series) | — | |
| Live at Tamworth 1996 (credited to The Slim Dusty Family Show) | Released: 12 January 2025 Label: ACRA (Desk Tape Series) | — | |
| "—" denotes a recording that did not chart, position unknown or was not released in that territory. ||||

### Compilation albums

| Title | Album details | Chart positions | Certifications (sales thresholds) |
| Title | Album details | AUS | Certifications (sales thresholds) |
| Encores | Released: 1969 Label: Columbia (330SX-9565) | — | |
| The Best of Slim Dusty | Released: 1973 Label: World Record Club (S-5359) | — | |
| Dusty Tracks | Released: 1973 Label: Axis (AXIS 6083) Tracks recorded between 1959 and 1967 | — | |
| Dinki-Di Aussies | Released: 1974 Label: Axis (TC-AX-1095) Tracks recorded between 1957 and 1969 | — | |
| The Best of Slim Dusty Volume 2 | Released: 1975 Label: Columbia (SCX-8021) | — | |
| Way Out There | Released: 1975 Label: Axis Tracks recorded between 1957 and 1964 | — | |
| This Is Your Life | Released: 1976 Label: EMI (SCXA 8033) | — | |
| Songs from Down Under | Released: 1976 Label: Axis (TC-AX- 10306) Tracks recorded between 1959 and 1972 | — | |
| Slim Dusty Sings His Favourite Songs | Released: 1976 Label: World Record Club (R-60533) | — | |
| Travelling Country Man | Released: 1977 Label: Axis (TC-AX- 10334) Tracks recorded between 1959 and 1973 | — | |
| A Guitar and a Hat | Released: February 1979 Label: World Record Club (90544, C 90545, C 90546) 3× vinyl box set | — | |
| Rarities | Released: 1979 Label: EMI (SD.1) Tracks recorded between 1942 and 1945 | — | |
| Rodeo Riders | Released: 1979 Label: Axis (6386) Tracks recorded between 1960 and 1977 | — | |
| No. 50 The Golden Anniversary Album | Released: April 1981 Label: EMI Music (PLAY1004) | 10 | |
| Slim Dusty ....Vintage Album 1 | Released: 1982 Label: EMI/Columbia (TC 7998684) | — | |
| Slim Dusty ....Vintage Album 2 | Released: 1983 Label: EMI/Columbia | — | |
| I Haven't Changed a Bit | Released: 1983 Label: Axis (AX-701306) | — | |
| The Best of Slim Dusty | Released: 1984 Label: EMI/ Reader's Digest (Oz-RD4-386) 6× LP box set | — | ARIA: Gold |
| I'll Take Mine Country Style | Released: 1985 Label: Axis (AX-430027) | — | ARIA: Gold |
| Australia Is His Name | Released: 1985 Label: Thorn EMI 3× LP box set (7946552) | — | |
| Slim Dusty ....Vintage Album 3 | Released: November 1986 Label: EMI/Columbia | — | |
| Country Livin' | Released: 23 November 1987 Label: Axis (AX 701372) Tracks recorded between 1957 and 1987 | — | |
| The Heritage Album | Released: 1988 Label: Columbia (SCXO 790140) Tracks recorded between 1955 and 1987 | — | ARIA: Platinum |
| Slim Dusty Sings Stan Coster | Released: 1988 Label: Axis (AXIS 8377242) Tracks recorded between 1963 and 1978 | — | |
| Slim Dusty ....Vintage Album 4 | Released: 1989 Label: EMI/Columbia (OEX 793064) | — | |
| Henry Lawson and Banjo Paterson | Released: March 1990 Label: Columbia | — | ARIA: Gold |
| Slim Dusty ....Vintage Album 5 | Released: January 1991 Label: EMI/Columbia (OEX 795285) | — | |
| Slim Dusty Sings Joy McKean | Released: October 1991 Label: EMI/Columbia Tracks recorded between 1962 and 1986 | — | |
| Travellin' Guitar | Released: February 1992 Label: Tracks recorded between 1958 and 1960 | — | |
| A Land He Calls His Own | Released: August 1992 Label: EMI (251206–208) Tracks recorded between 1966 and 1987 3× CD box set | — | |
| The Anniversary Album No. 2 (1943-1993) | Released: December 1993 Label: EMI (7896102) | — | |
| Regal Zonophone Collection | Released: 16 October 1995 Label: EMI Tracks recorded between 1946 and 1957 3×CD set | — | |
| Country Classics | Released: 1996 Label: Reader's Digest (300701300) Tracks recorded between 1947 and 1995 3×CD set | — | ARIA: Gold |
| Old Time Drover's Lament | Released: 1997 Label: EMI Tracks recorded between 1957 and 1970 | — | |
| Down the Dusty Road | Released: 1998 Label: EMI (724381431627) | — | |
| Talk About The Good Times | Released: 1998 Label: EMI Tracks recorded between 1960 and 1975 | — | |
| The Very Best of Slim Dusty | Released: November 1998 Label: EMI (724349572829) | 15 | ARIA: 5× Platinum |
| The Man Who Is Australia | Released: July 2000 Label: EMI (724352765321) 5xCD Set | 70 | |
| A Piece of Australia | Released: 15 January 2001 Label: EMI (724353107222) | — | ARIA: Platinum |
| Pubs, Trucks & Plains | Released: March 2007 Label: EMI (094638953227) Tracks recorded between 1960 and 2002 3×CD set | 20 | ARIA: Gold |
| Reunion (credited to The Slim Dusty Family) | Released: March 2008 Label: EMI (5198462) | 15 | |
| Sittin' On 80 | Released: July 2009 Label: EMI (094638953227) Tracks recorded between 1969 and 2002 4×CD set | 20 | |
| 1960's Classic Albums | Released: 28 September 2012 Label: EMI (7056652) 5×CD box set | — | |
| 1970's Classic Albums | Released: 28 September 2012 Label: EMI (7056662) 5×CD box set | — | |
| 1980's Classic Albums | Released: 28 September 2012 Label: EMI (7056672) 5×CD box set | — | |
| 1990's Classic Albums | Released: 28 September 2012 Label: EMI (7056712) 5×CD box set | - | |
| The Son of Noisy Dan: A Musical Autobiography | Released: 16 August 2013 Label: Universal Music (3747004) | — | |
| The Den Tapes | Released: 13 November 2015 Label: EMI (4736241) Recorded in the 1990s | 27 | |
| Prime Movers | Released: 15 July 2016 Label: EMI (4788793) | 43 | |
| Gone Fishin' | Released: 20 August 2021 Label: EMI (3847882) | 11 | |
| Christmas On the Station | Released: 25 November 2022 Label: EMI (4886132) | — | |
| Gone Truckin' | Released: 4 October 2024 Label: EMI (5861876) | 95 | |
| "—" denotes a recording that did not chart, position unknown or was not released in that territory. ||||

## Chronological list of all albums

* Slim Dusty Sings (1960)
* Songs for Rolling Stones (credited to Slim Dusty and His Bushlanders) (1961)
* Along the Road of Song (1962)
* Aussie Sing Song (credited to Slim Dusty and His Bushlanders) (1962)
* Another Aussie Sing Song (credited to Slim Dusty and His Bushlanders) (1963)
* Songs in the Saddle (1963)
* Songs of Australia (1964)
* People and Places (1964) (credited to Slim Dusty and His Bushlanders)
* Australian Bush Ballads (1965)
* The Nature of the Man (1966)
* An Evening with Slim and Joy (1966) (with Joy McKean)
* Essentially Australian (1967)
* Songs My Father Sang to Me (1968)
* Songs from the Cattle Camps (1968)
* Sing Along with Dad (1968) (with Joy McKean, Anne and David)
* Cattle Camp Crooner (1969)
* Slim Dusty Encores (1969)
* Sing a Happy Song (1970)
* Songs from the Land I Love (1971)
* Glory Bound Train (1971)
* Live at Wagga Wagga (1972)
* Me and My Guitar (1972)
* Foolin' Around (1973) (with Joy McKean)
* The Best of Slim Dusty (1973)
* Live at Tamworth (1973)
* Dusty Tracks (1973)
* Tall Stories and Sad Songs (1973)
* Australiana (1974)
* Dinki Di Aussies (1974)
* The Best of Slim Dusty Volume 2 (1975)
* Lights on the Hill (1975)
* Way Out There (1975)
* Things I See Around Me (1976) (featuring The Travelling Country Band)
* Give Me the Road (1976) (featuring The Travelling Country Band)
* This Is Your Life (1976)
* Songs from Down Under (1976)
* Slim Dusty Sings His Favourite Songs (1976)
* Just Slim with Old Friends (1977) (with Barry Thornton, Paul and Colleen Trenwith and Linsday Butler)
* On the Move (1977) (with The new Travelling Country Band)
* Travellin' Country Man (1977)
* To Whom It May Concern (1978)
* The Entertainer - Live at The Sydney Opera House (1978)
* A Guitar and a Hat (1979)
* Spirit of Australia (1979)
* Slim Dusty Rarities (1979)
* Rodeo Riders (1979)
* Walk a Country Mile (1979)
* The Man Who Steadies the Lead (1980)
* Slim Dusty Family Album (1980)
* No 50 - The Golden Anniversary Album (1981)
* Where Country Is (1981)
* Vintage Album Volume 1 (1981)
* Who's Riding Old Harlequin Now (with The Travelling Country Band) (1981)
* Vintage Album Volume 2 (1982)
* On the Wallaby (1983)
* I Haven't Changed a Bit (1983)
* Trucks on the Track (1983)
* Slim Dusty Movie (Soundtrack) (1984)
* The Best of Slim Dusty (1984)
* I'll Take Mine Country Style (1985)
* Singer from Down Under (1985)
* To a Mate (1985)
* Australia Is His Name (1985)
* Stories I Wanted to Tell (1986)
* Vintage Album Volume 3 (1986)
* Beer Drinking Songs of Australia (1986)
* Cattlemen from the High Plains (1987)
* Neon City (1987)
* Country Livin' (1987)
* The Heritage Album (1988)
* Slim Dusty Sings Stan Coster (1988)
* G'day G'day! (1988)
* King of Kalgoorlie (1989)
* Vintage Album Volume 4 (1989)
* Two Singers One Song(with Anne Kirkpatrick) (1989)
* Henry Lawson and Banjo Paterson (1990)
* Coming Home (1990)
* Slim Dusty Sings Joy McKean (1991)
* Vintage Album Volume 5 (1991)
* A Land He Calls Our Own (1992)
* Live Into the '90s (1992)
* Travellin' Guitar (1992)
* That's the Song We're Singing (1992)
* Ringer from the Top End (1993)
* The Anniversary Album No. 2 (1943-1993) (1993)
* Natural High (1994)
* Country Way of Life (1995)
* Regal Zonophone Collection (1995)
* The Slim Dusty Show (Live in Townsville 1956) (1996)
* Country Classics (1996)
* 91 Over 50 (1996)
* A Time to Remember (1997)
* Talk About the Good Times (1997)
* Old Time Drover's Lament (1997)
* Makin' a Mile (1997)
* Down the Dusty Road (1998)
* The Very Best of Slim Dusty (1998)
* West of Winton (1999)
* Nighty Night (aka '99) (1999)
* Looking Forward Looking Back (2000)
* The Man Who Is Australia (2000)
* A Piece of Australia (2000)
* Ramblin' Shoes 1953-1976 (2000)
* Ramblin' Shoes Vol.2 1980-2000 (2000)
* The Men From Nulla Nulla (with Shorty Ranger) (2001)
* Travellin' Still...Always Will (with Anne Kirkpatrick) (2002)
* Columbia Lane - the Last Sessions (2004)
* Slim Dusty Live (aka Live)(2006)
* Pubs, Trucks & Plains (2007)
* Reunion (credited to The Slim Dusty Family) (2008)
* Sittin' On 80 (2009)
* I've Been There And Back Again (2011)
* 1960's Classic Albums (2012)
* 1970's Classic Albums (2012)
* 1980's Classic Albums (2012)
* 1990's Classic Albums (2012)
* The Son of Noisy Dan: A Musical Autobiography (2013)
* The Den Tapes (2015)
* Prime Movers (2016)
* Slim and I (Soundtrack) (credited to Slim Dusty and various artists) (2020)
* Gone Fishin' (2021)
* Christmas On the Station (2022)
* Gone Truckin' (2024)
* Live at Tamworth 1996 (As The Slim Dusty Travelling Country Band Reunion Show) (2025)
* Live at Tamworth 1996 (As The Slim Dusty Family Show) (2025)

## Charted and/or certified singles

During his career, Dusty had five top 40 hits on the Australian charts, with "A Pub With No Beer" and "Duncan" both reaching number one in 1958 and 1980 respectively.
| Year | Title | Chart positions | Chart positions | Certifications |
| Year | Title | AUS | UK | Certifications |
| 1958 | "A Pub with No Beer" | 1 | 3 | AUS: Gold |
| 1958 | "The Answer to a Pub with No Beer" | 12 | — | |
| 1958 | "Sequel to a Pub with No Beer" | 23 | — | |
| 1960 | "Waltzing Matilda" | — | — | ARIA: Gold |
| 1961 | "Boomerang" | 79 | — | |
| 1971 | "Darwin (Big Heart of the North)" | 71 | — | |
| 1974 | "Lights on the Hill" | 100 | — | ARIA: Platinum |
| 1974 | "The Biggest Disappointment" | 58 | — | |
| 1975 | "The Melbourne Cup" | 91 | — | |
| 1979 | "A Pub with No Beer" (re-release) | — | — | ARIA: Platinum |
| 1980 | "Leave Him in the Long Yard" | — | — | ARIA: Gold |
| 1980 | "Duncan" | 1 | — | ARIA: Platinum |
| 1981 | "Country Revival" | 99 | — | |
| 1983 | "The Pub That Doesn't Sell Beer" | 94 | — | |
| 1987 | "We've Done Us Proud" | 80 | — | |
| 1988 | "G'day G'day" | 37 | — | ARIA: Gold |
| 1993 | "Ringer from the Top End" | — | — | ARIA: Gold |
| 2000 | "Looking Forward Looking Back" | — | — | ARIA: Gold |