The Wolfe Brothers - Australian Made (2025) Hi-Res

“Let’s embrace our Australianisms”: The country-rockers salute their heritage. Tom Wolfe admits that calling The Wolfe Brothers’ seventh album Australian Made risks shutting the band off from “certain markets and from certain listeners”. Neither he nor his brother, guitarist/vocalist Nick, really care. “Nick and I are Australian made. We love this country, we love this scene,” the bass player tells Apple Music. “So, we may as well sing about it. Let’s embrace our Australianisms and do it in our way.”

With the exception of their cover of the Bruce Woodley and Dobe Newton-penned classic “I Am Australian”, the brothers reference their heritage in more subtle, everyday ways, be it via name-checking the ATO and RBA in “Little by Little” or the slang references to Far North Queensland in “Country Is Coming to Town” (“From the FNQ to way down south”). Musically, they also draw on the proud legacy of ’80s Oz rock, incorporating influences such as James Reyne, Southern Sons and Daryl Braithwaite into their ’90s-indebted country sound—they even got John Farnham’s harp and saxophone player Steve Williams to play on the song “Little by Little”.

“We didn’t know when we were recording all this stuff that it was going to be called Australian Made, but we did make a conscious decision to use Australian [musicians],” explains Tom. “There’s a choir at the end [of the album]; they’re all local kids that Gina Jeffreys teaches. Quite often, you can email off parts and get guys from Nashville to do it, but we kept it as Australian and us as we possibly could.” Here, Tom and Nick take Apple Music through Australian Made, track by track.