Lawrie Minson
Four times Golden Guitar winner Lawrie Minson celebrates 25 years on the road this year and what an incredible trip it’s been!
From the legendary Buddy Williams Show, playing dobro, lead guitar, banjo and pedal steel guitar through the outback communities of Australia to the stage of Nashville’s Grand Ole Opry, playing didgeridoo with Keith Urban and Slim Dusty, you could say that Lawrie Minson is the right hand man for some of the biggest names in the entertainment business.

Lawrie has a long traditional musical heritage. He is the son of another legend, John Minson ‘Mr Hoedown’( John’s night time radio program ‘Hoedown’ was broadcast from 2TM Tamworth NSW and launched the careers of many of our top country music artists. He also taught Lawrie how to play boogie woogie piano!).
Lawrie’s playing also graces the recordings of John Williamson, Gina Jeffreys, The Wheel, Smoky Dawson, Troy Cassar-Daley, Colin Buchanan and more than 20 Slim Dusty albums including the final Columbia Lane recordings.
He has toured with US superstar Trisha Yearwood and has recently produced
‘Cowboy at Heart’ for India’s Bobby Cash. He is also a judge and co-ordinator of the Golden Harmonica Championships held in January at Tamworth.
Lawrie MINSON hails from Tamworth, New South Wales, the home of Country Music in Australia. He has been a professional musician for more than 20 years and has toured and recorded with a list of artists that reads like a who’s who of the Australian music industry including Jimmy Barnes, Ross Wilson, Troy Cassar-Daley and James Blundell. He currently plays with Australia’s biggest Country Music superstar Lee Kernaghan.

1979…toured with Buddy Williams Show. (9 month tour!)
1980…formed group Hired Hands with Kirk Steel.
1981…joined Travelling Country Band recording and touring with Slim Dusty.
1982…RCP for HM Queen Elizabeth and the Duke of York.
1983…formed new line up of Hired Hands with Garry Steel & Pixie Jenkins.
1984…HH win Golden Guitar for Best instrumental with ‘Moonjbah Mull’.
1986…formed Three Chord Wonders with John Green and Andrew Clermont.
1987…TCW win Golden Guitar for the Slim classic ‘Losin’ My Blues Tonight’
1988…toured with Ray Kernaghan Show (Lee was a support act!)
1989…record solo album Memories of Home (EMI). Tour with James Blundell.
1990…win Golden Guitar Best instrumental ‘Wild River’(EMI).
1993…play dobro, harmonica and accordian on Jimmy Barnes ‘Flesh and Wood’.
1994…record James Blundell album ‘Earth and Sea’ in Nashville, Tennessee.
1995…join Lee Kernaghan band and tour and tour and tour! (and record..)
1996... record Family Tree solo album (ABC). Ross Wilson and guests.
1997…win Golden Guitar for Best Instrumental, ‘Action Jackson’ (ABC).
2000…form Lawrie Minson Band and record ‘In Another World’.
2001…didn’t win anything! host monthly songwriters night @the pub Tamworth
2002…LMB touring with Tania Kernaghan. ‘Big Sky Country’ album
Man From Snowy River Arena Spectacular with Lee Kernaghan.
2003…Lee Kernaghan’s Electric Rodeo Super Show.
2004…Songwriting with Adam Harvey, playing in Brooke Leal band