Slim & I

For over 50 years, country music legend Slim Dusty and his wife, Joy McKean trail-blazed their way across Australia performing and writing in one of the greatest partnerships in Australian music history.SLIM & I is a story of resilience, determination, dedication, loyalty and love and of a fiercely driven woman who forged her own path. Using candid exclusive first-hand interviews with Joy, her family and friends the film combines rare, never before seen archival material and animation sequences to create a vividly cinematic mosaic of Joy’s life revealing all the sacrifices, challenges, the highs and lows. Interviews with other famous music artists who have known Slim and Joy and have been directly influenced by them, such as Keith Urban, Paul Kelly, Kasey Chambers, Don Walker and Troy Cassar-Daley are interwoven into the narrative of Joy’s story. Their recollections underscore an epic tale of a great partnership that pioneered the way forward for country music in Australia.