Cassar-Daley says he and Momoa, a keen guitarist, bonded over their shared love of music at the footy.
“He got me on to Alan Lomax. He held his phone up to my ear to listen to these historical songs collected in the field. They’re old recordings Alan Lomax had done in these southern prisons that are part of the archive of American music.”
Cassar-Daley is on the Coast to perform at tonight’s Broadbeach Country Music Festival launch at The Star before he plays two shows at the free festival — a Things I Carry Around album and hits set in Surf Parade on Friday and a Tex Dubbo (his alter ego, named in honour of a country superstar/bird impersonator character from The Paul Hogan Show) classic covers gig in the Kurrawa Park big top on Saturday arvo.
And yes, you might even spot Momoa in the crowd.
Cassar-Daley, his great mate Kasey Chambers and US group America lead the bill for this year’s fifth annual country shindig, which features more than 110 free performances across 12 stages in the streets, parks and venues of Broadbeach from Friday to Sunday.
The festival will also mark a reunion of sorts for Cassar-Daley, who opened for America when they toured Australia in 1998.
Cassar-Daley said he was looking forward to seeing the group perform again this weekend.
“I’m excited to see them again because after that particular support thing we did with them, we ended up playing about five of their songs in our set — we were so overcome with how brilliant they were.
