In her own agency, she represented clients as diverse as international actor Diane Cilento and Brisbane's the Kransky Sisters, and co-ordinated the Wool Parades at the Ekka, before becoming forever linked to Brisbane's Women in Voice production. Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk said Lloyd became a family friend, after first meeting her when Ms Palaszczuk as an advisor for the Department of Communities. The Sydney Morning Herald.

Goodbye, Ruby Tuesday. Their friendship grew when she returned and her music career exploded. She drifted away from the cruiser and was certain she was a goner," he said. By the end of the year she had formed Tonnage, which was soon renamed as the Carol Lloyd Band. The line-up was Lloyd on lead vocals and percussion, Gary Broadhurst on bass guitar, Peter Harvey on keyboards, Mark Moffatt on lead guitar and pedal steel guitar, and Danny Simpson on drums.

Tony Catterall of The Canberra Times was impressed by Lloyd "[who] is a blues singer and, being part of the seventies, she's singing in the most acceptable blues style of today; the southern US sound pioneered by the Allman Brothers Band.

The resultant sound isn't exactly displeasing, but it isn't true, either The show was named Goodbye Ruby Tuesday after the Rolling Stones song frequently covered by Lloyd, and she made an appearance on stage in a decorated wheelchair to join Ellen Reed in performing it. Lloyd was diagnosed with a terminal illness, interstitial pulmonary fibrosis in January Grayson and Henry Whitter 's poignant and disarmingly offhand "He's Coming to Us Dead" bodies of the deceased were frequently shipped by train to hometowns for burial in the early s , and Uncle Dave Macon 's "Death of John Henry," complete with his trademark bubbling banjo work.

A haunting work song that confronts loss and distance while remaining a matter of utility, the rendition presented here perfectly illustrates the multiple levels of metaphor and meaning the train carries as a symbol when used in popular folk songs. In the 21st century the train retains all its power as an image of personal renewal, but has now also become a symbol itself of an earlier time, a less frenzied time when things appeared to have been easier to comprehend.

That concept is an illusion, of course, because the most difficult time to comprehend is and always will be right now. But even so, in a world where blinking satellites whirl constantly overhead beaming streams of data Lord knows where, a far-off train whistle still remains one of the most poignant and forlorn sounds one could ever hear. AllMusic relies heavily on JavaScript. Please enable JavaScript in your browser to use the site fully.

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