Home" on Au-Go-Go Records. Controversy Deadly Woman Blues, a history of black women in Australian music, was released in 2018 by a division of academic publisher UNSW Press, Each of 99 biographical entries was accompanied by a hand-drawn illustration by Walker. The book immediately garnered a few glowing reviews, There was an angry backlash from four of the artists who expressed their displeasure at being included without being spoken to, and citing factual inaccuracies. This led to social media outrage in which Walker was shamed as a racist, misogynist, colonialist privileged white male. The book was withdrawn from sale, with the publisher promising to pulp any unsold copies and never to reprint it. Walker admitted to mistakes and apologised for them, but he nevertheless suffered personal trauma and grave damage to his reputation. "I didn't try to obscure what I was doing, I didn't take all the appropriate steps. I've been involved in underclass music forever, and in some ways, this is no different, but in other ways, it is very different". Recognition A reviewer of Golden Miles: Sex, Speed And The Australian Muscle Car in The Sydney Morning Herald has called him "our best chronicler of Australian grass-roots culture". Bibliography Inner City Sound (Wild & Woolley, 1981; revised and expanded edition, Verse Chorus Press, 2005) The Next Thing (Kangaroo Press, 1984) Highway to Hell: The Life and Times of AC/DC Legend Bon Scott (Pan Macmillan, 1994; revised edition, Verse Chorus Press, 2001) Stranded: The Secret History of Australian Independent Music 1977-1991 (Pan Macmillan, 1996/Visible Spectrum, 2021) Football Life (PanMacmillan, 1998) Buried Country (Pluto Press, 2000; revised and expanded edition Verse Chorus Press, 2015) Golden Miles (Lothian, 2005; expanded edition, Wakefield Press, 2009) History is Made at Night (Currency House, 2012) Wizard of Oz (Wakefield Press, 2013) Deadly Woman Blues (New South, 2018/WITHDRAWN) Suburban Songbook (Goldentone, 2021) Discography (as producer) Buried Country (Larrikin-Festival, 2000/Warner Music, 2015) Long Way to the Top (ABC, 2001) Studio 22 (ABC, 2002) Inner City Soundtrack (Laughing Outlaw, 2005) Silver Roads (Warner Music, 2013) Videography (as writer) Notes from Home (ABC, 1987) Sing it in the Music (ABC, 1989) Studio 22 (ABC series, also as co-presenter, 1999-2003) Buried Country (Film Australia, 2000) Long Way to the Top (ABC, 2001) Love is in the Air (ABC, 2003) Rare Grooves (ABC series, also as presenter, 2003) References External links Clinton Walker on Rock's Back Pages 1957 births Living