Stan was born in Casino Northern New South Wales in 1930.
Stan’s songwriting ability was first used in 1956. He worked out he could write when wife Dorothy took ill and was hospitalized leaving Stan to look after the house and children, he would write his lyrics at the kitchen table in the still of the night.
Being a true bushman Stan had the stories and hardships of the bush in his head and only had to relate them into lyric form so they could be sung. He had been a rodeo rider, stockman, miner, burr cutter, shed hand, shooter and slaughter man giving him the knowledge that would allow him to even put the stories of others to pen with the feel as if it had happened to him.
Stan’s first Golden Guitar came in 1977 with “Three Rivers Hotel” (It was recorded by the king himself Slim Dusty). It was also in this year that he was inducted into the Australasian Hands of Fame.
1979 saw Stan and his family move to Manilla just north of Tamworth in New South Wales.
He won the Tamworth Songwriters Association’s Songmaker Award in 1982.
1987 saw Stan win his second Golden Guitar with “He’s A Good Bloke When He’s Sober”.
1989 saw Stan Coster receive an Order of Australia Medal.
He became a member of the Australasian Country Music Roll of Renown in 1990.
1995 saw “Lawsons’ Loaded Dog” win Stan his 3rd Golden Guitar.
Stan and Dot produced three children in their marriage Jane, Russell and Tracy.
Stan Coster passed away in 1997.
While Stan is best remembered as a songwriter by most those that knew him remember a singer / songwriter / bushman who became a legend in his own lifetime who was always a true gentleman where the ladies were concerned.
