“I met musician Ken Farmer in Lorne and he lent me all of his Bessie Sm...” — Judith Durham Quote

I met musician Ken Farmer in Lorne and he lent me all of his Bessie Smith blues LPs. That's when I started to sing.

I remember being out in the street, singing 'Forever And Ever' at the top of my voice at five years old.

It seems that singing is the only thing I've been able to do and fortunately it seems to be useful!

In 1990 I had a nasty car accident and in 1994 my husband Ron Edgeworth died of motor neurone disease.

Mum prayed to the Lord that when her children were born they wouldn't be tone deaf. Mum says at two years old I was singing my own little songs, she didn't know where I'd heard it so I must have made it up. I used to sing along with the radio.

'Basmati Blues' deals with a great social issue, GMOs, but it's told through love and song and dance.

I would be on dates with guys, and the radio would be on, and if the Moody Blues song came on I couldn't concentrate on the guy; I would go straight into the music.

As I started to study old blues recordings and really pay attention to my favorites, it really started to come to me that all of my favorite pieces of music weren't produced, they were performed. The producer is nearly invisible: no thumbprint other than the composition and the performers.

Oh, I listened to a lot of the blues. I love the blues. You know, Slim Harpo, people like that, and Sonny Boy Williamson.