Frank the Poet - A Convict's Tour to Hell

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Originally from Cashel, Frank McNamara's songs and poems were spread through convict Australia by his fellow prisoners. Today a new generation of musicians regard him as giving Australia a tradition akin to the Mississippi blues.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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