Karma County is an Australian music group who formed in 1995. They consist of Drummer

Drummer

A drummer is a musician who is capable of playing drums, which includes but is not limited to a drum kit and accessory based hardware which includes an assortment of pedals and standing support mechanisms, marching percussion and/or any musical instrument that is struck within the context of a...

 Stuart Eadie, who also creates and co-ordinates the band's visual imagery (album sleeves, t-shirts, web design, adverts), singer/guitarist

Guitarist

A guitarist is a musician who plays the guitar. Guitarists may play a variety of instruments such as classical guitars, acoustic guitars, electric guitars, and bass guitars. Some guitarists accompany themselves on the guitar while singing.- Versatility :The guitarist controls an extremely...

 Brendan Gallagher, who also produces the music, and bassist

Bassist

A bass player, or bassist is a musician who plays a bass instrument such as a double bass, bass guitar, keyboard bass or a low brass instrument such as a tuba or sousaphone. Different musical genres tend to be associated with one or more of these instruments...

 Michael Galeazzi.

Melody deal

In early 1999 the band signed a deal with Melody Management and Universal

Universal Music Group

Universal Music Group is an American music group, the largest of the "big four" record companies by its commanding market share and its multitude of global operations...

 publishing. In the same year, their third album "Into The Land Of Promise" was released on license through Warner Music. This album yielded two singles "Secret Country" (featuring Jimmy Little

Jimmy Little

Jimmy Little AO , is an Australian Aboriginal musician, singer, songwriter and guitarist, whose career has spanned six decades. For many years he was the only Aboriginal star on the Australian music scene...

) and "The Men Who Ran Away From The Circus". Both singles gained airplay on Triple J

Triple J

triple j is a nationally networked Australian radio station intended to appeal to listeners between the ages of 18 and 30. The government-funded station is a division of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation...

 and other ABC

Australian Broadcasting Corporation

The Australian Broadcasting Corporation, commonly referred to as "the ABC" , is Australia's national public broadcaster...

 radio stations nationally.

"Into The Land Of Promise" took out the Year 2000 ARIA Award for Best Adult Contemporary Album, making it two in a row for Brendan Gallagher who produced the 1999 winner, Jimmy Little's Messenger.

Karma County toured from Cairns to Albany

Albany, Western Australia

Albany is a port city in the Great Southern region of Western Australia, some 418 km SE of Perth, the state capital. As of 2009, Albany's population was estimated at 33,600, making it the 6th-largest city in the state....

 and beyond before going on a seven week tour of Europe

Europe

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, UK and North America

North America

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 in July 2000. Tour highlights included performances at WOMAD festivals in Hanover

Hanover

Hanover or Hannover, on the river Leine, is the capital of the federal state of Lower Saxony , Germany and was once by personal union the family seat of the Hanoverian Kings of Great Britain, under their title as the dukes of Brunswick-Lüneburg...

, Reading

Reading, Berkshire

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 and Seattle, opening the Australian Film Festival in Rome

Rome

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 and guesting with Jimmy Little at Shakespeare's Globe Theatre in London

London

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Four State Tour

In 2001, the band completed a four state tour showcasing new material including "Where Could I Go But Home", the first single released from their new album. Then shortly after on the "Happy Birthday Dear Customer" album tour.
Karma County, with guests Lindsay Page on Piano

Piano

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 and Cameron Bruce

Cameron Bruce

Cameron Bruce is a professional Australian rules football player, who plays for the Hawthorn Football Club after being selected by the Hawks in the Pre-season Draft, as was widely speculated to occur after he quit playing for the Melbourne Football Club, with whom he had played for 11 seasons, and...

 on keys

Keyboard instrument

A keyboard instrument is a musical instrument which is played using a musical keyboard. The most common of these is the piano. Other widely used keyboard instruments include organs of various types as well as other mechanical, electromechanical and electronic instruments...

 were the backing band for a Carol King

Carole King

Carole King is an American singer, songwriter, and pianist. King and her former husband Gerry Goffin wrote more than two dozen chart hits for numerous artists during the 1960s, many of which have become standards. As a singer, King had an album, Tapestry, top the U.S...

 Tribute show, Tapestry, featuring the vocal talents of Jenny Morris, Vika & Linda Bull, and Jodi Phillis

Jodi Phillis

Jodi Christine Phillis is an Australian singer-songwriter-guitarist. She spent her childhood in California, United States, and moved back to Sydney, Australia to begin school. She quit school at 15, then spent 8 years working with surfwear company Mambo Graphics until she took up the role as...

. With Michael Galeazzi (bassist) as musical director, the show played packed concert halls in Brisbane

Brisbane

Brisbane is the capital and most populous city in the Australian state of Queensland and the third most populous city in Australia. Brisbane's metropolitan area has a population of over 2 million, and the South East Queensland urban conurbation, centred around Brisbane, encompasses a population of...

, Adelaide

Adelaide

Adelaide is the capital city of South Australia and the fifth-largest city in Australia. Adelaide has an estimated population of more than 1.2 million...

, Melbourne

Melbourne

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, Sydney

Sydney

Sydney is the most populous city in Australia and the state capital of New South Wales. Sydney is located on Australia's south-east coast of the Tasman Sea. As of June 2010, the greater metropolitan area had an approximate population of 4.6 million people...

 and Perth

Perth, Western Australia

Perth is the capital and largest city of the Australian state of Western Australia and the fourth most populous city in Australia. The Perth metropolitan area has an estimated population of almost 1,700,000....

 during early September 2001, receiving rave reviews.

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Karma County have often toured with associate members such as Bruce Reid

Bruce Reid

Bruce Anthony Reid is an Australian cricketer and bowling coach of the Indian national cricket team on their 2003-04 tour to Australia....

 on lap steel and guitar

Guitar

The guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...

, Lachlan Doley on Keys and Cameron Bruce on Keyboards/Vocals. As of late, they have resigned to keeping the band as a trio.

In August 2004 the band released a 12 track album, Pacifico, on the independent label Littoral Records.

In October 2008 the band released a 36 track double album, "Headland" through Vitamin Records

Vitamin Records

Vitamin Records is a Los Angeles based record label founded in 1999 as a subsidiary of CMH Records. The label is home to the Vitamin String Quartet, who are best known for performing string quartet tributes to popular rock and metal acts such as Tool, Nine Inch Nails, and Radiohead...

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