The album recently voted by his peers as the number three Best Australian Country Album of All Time was written about his Queensland roots, describing life in the north with songs like Cyclone Season, Let the Canefields Burn and the title track A Little Further North Each Year.

Queensland’s number one singer-songwriter has always had the spirit of his hometown and state in his songs.

In his concert at the Shoalhaven Entertainment Centre, Connors will perform the complete album, from beginning to end, as well as a special bonus track Our True Native Son recorded during the original sessions in 1988.

This song now appears on the remixed, remastered and repackaged CD, North, 25 Years On.

The second half of the show will be stacked with the hits and audience favourites from Connors’ 17 CDs.

These will range from his first And When Morning Comes produced by Kris Kristofferson, to his 2013 release Kindred Spirit.

“It all started in December 1973 when I walked out of the classroom, the next day I hopped on a Fokker Friendship flight to Brisbane, jumped in a waiting hire car - and two hours later stepped on stage to open for a show in Toowoomba. Hard to believe it’s 40 years ago, it feels like yesterday,” says Connors.

Influenced by singer-songwriters like Randy Newman, Kris Kristofferson and John Prine, it was through Kristofferson’s songs that a young Connors learnt to “mean what you say and say what you mean”.

By the time he was 14, Graeme knew he, his guitar and songs, were going to be lifelong companions. The Queensland-born boy loved live performance and was already singing with his own band.

In a career spanning four decades, Connors has received multiple songwriter and album awards including an ARIA Award, Golden Guitar Awards, national and international songwriter awards as well as writing an extensive and impressive catalogue of songs for other artists including John Denver, Jon English and Slim Dusty.