At the 2024 Golden Guitar Awards Allan Caswell received the ultimate accolade in Australian Country Music, when he was elevated to the Roll of Renown. This was in recognition of his huge contribution as a songwriter, artist, author, and record producer.
Caswell is easily Australia’s most recorded songwriter with over 980 of his songs being released around the world by artists of the caliber of Cilla Black, Patti Page, The Irish Rovers, Steve Earle, The Living End, Slim Dusty, Barry Humphries, Ricki May, James Blundell, McAlister Kemp, Graeme Connors, Anne Kirkpatrick, Chad Morgan, Lynne Hamilton, Beccy Cole, The Flying Emus, Bullamakanka, The Wolfe Brothers and Ella Hooper among dozens of others.
At the 2020 Golden Guitar Awards Allan Caswell picked up his 8th Award… (with Manfred Vijars for Bush Ballad of the Year). This represents a huge span of 40 years from his first Award in 1980.
In 1979 Caswell wrote the theme for the Australian television series “Prisoner” (Cell Block H in England) … “On The Inside” was a number 1 hit in Australia and New Zealand in 1979 and later reached number 3 in the UK and the Patti Page version made the country charts in the USA. After the success of “On The Inside” he went full-time and has made a living writing and performing ever since.
Caswell has won 8 Golden Guitars from 49 finalist nominations … he has also been awarded 17 songwriting Awards from the Tamworth Songwriters Association, including The Songmaker Award He has won 9 Awards at the Independent Country Music Awards (Southern Stars) including Album of The Year for 3 of his albums. He was also included in Tamworth’s Galaxy of Stars. He is the go-to co-writer for many of Australia’s top artists.
His performing career has taken him to virtually every town in NSW, every state in Australia, NZ, LA, New York, Nashville Texas, East Timor, Kuwait, Iraq, and Afghanistan.
At the end of 2020, Caswell formed Lynchburg with multi-instrumentalist Lindsay Waddington, resulting in 3 albums and a whole string of top 10 country hits.
On Australia Day 202,5 Caswell started his Really Long Goodbye Tour, where he intends to revisit the places he has enjoyed playing at over the years.