He's a guitar guy and his music is usually guitar music, both acoustic and electric. In the later 1990s, he dabbled more with electronic sounds but never put the guitar down. Although he is actually an immigrant of german extraction, his music seems as quintessentially Australian as anyone's I can think of, blending a bit of blues, a bit of that peculiarly Australian flavor of country and the jangly sort of pop that his old band The Saints took to after he had left. However, he's a much better songwriter than Chris Bailey and his arranging skills far outstrip the latter-day Saints' predictably commercial approach.

This excellent collection that pulls from only about 5 or 6 years of his career will make my point. And then you'll be buying everthing else too.