Lights on the Hill (song)

"Lights on the Hill" redirects here. For the album, see Lights on the Hill (album).

"Lights on the Hill" is an Australian country music hit song written by Joy McKean and made famous by her husband, Slim Dusty. It won the first Golden Guitar in January 1973 at the Country Music Awards of Australia, held in Tamworth. It has been covered by Keith Urban and Mental as Anything.

The song describes a truckie driving at night with a heavy load being blinded by lights on the hill, hitting a pole, falling off the edge of a road and realising his impending death.

The song won for Joy McKean the first ever Golden Guitar Award for "Song of the Year" at the first Tamworth Country Music Festival in January 1973,[1] and Slim Dusty's rendition won the award for Best EP or Single.[2][3]

  1. ^ Curtain, Carl (14 January 2010). "Country song-writer Joy McKean turns 80". ABC Rural. Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC). Archived from the original on 11 November 2012. Retrieved 3 April 2018.
  2. ^ "A very brief history of the Golden Guitar Awards".
  3. ^ "Slim Dusty Bio – Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2010-09-24. Retrieved 2010-10-13.