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Great Plains is the culmination of a collaboration between artist and storyteller Andrew Hogarth and Sydney musician Chris Fisher. The album comprises eleven songs with concepts derived from Hogarth’s love of Native American and Plains War history, his extensive travels throughout the USA and the honouring of oral history traditions through to Fisher’s observations of love, life and universal struggle. Great Plains is dedicated to the memory of Southern Cheyenne Bowstring Warrior Society War Chief Medicine Water (1835-1926). The inspired and tenacious resistance of the Cheyenne and Lakota Nations to stop the tide of America’s Manifest Destiny in the period of 1854-1890 underpins many of the songs however it is the triumph of the human spirit that unifies the album. The album was written and recorded over an eighteen month period from 2000-2001 under the guidance of producer and recording engineer Adam Barns at Smokin & Jokin Recording Studios in Artarmon, Australia. Andrew Hogarth