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Podcast: Sunburnt Country Music
Episode: Troy Cassar-Daley: Between the Fires
Description: When reviewing Troy Cassar-Daley’s last album, The World Today (2021), I compared him to Orpheus, going to the Underworld in search of his wife, Eurydice, who had been taken there by Hades. But after going into the darkness to find what he was looking for then turning back at the point of rescue only to see Eurydice disappear – as the myth has it – Cassar-Daley as Orpheus turned his face forwards and stepped into the light, as complicated as the path ahead was.‘Troy Cassar-Daley has long been a beacon in our culture,’ I wrote then, ‘for his songs and...