Well that’s it from us for another week and we leave you dear reader with a new video from arguably the greatest singer-songwriter Australia has ever produced (with the possible exception of Barry Humphries). ‘Hello Melancholy, Hello Joy’ is taken from last year’s album “Fever Longing Still” which AUK’s Graeme Tait waxed lyrical about at the time of its release. As Paul notes, “It’s based on the memory game where you turn up cards to try and match pairs. Children are always much better at this than me!” A fact that I can attest to from my son’s matching pairs Spiderman game which is not helped by every superhero looking basically identical.
Take care everyone, don’t forget Palestine and keep fighting the fascists. Please don’t put anything boring in the comments if you get more annoyed by the left than fascists, you could save your energy and do something nice instead. See you next week.
The Australian roots legend Paul Kelly has announced the release of his new album, “Fever Longing Still” on 1st November 2024. It is his first of new original material since 2018’s “Nature”. The album’s title comes from a line in Sonnet 147 by Shakespeare, whose writing has thrilled and inspired…
Listening to Mark Whitfield’s choice of Laura Cantrell’s spellbinding 'When The Roses Bloom Again' for last week's Chaingang, it’s hard not to think about the huge number of songs in Americana, like that one, which dig into the deep lode of the topic of life after death, and within that…
Kelly has got the fever (longing still). ‘Back to the Future’ is one of a dozen songs on Paul Kelly’s “Fever Longing Still,” which could just as easily been titled “Back to Basics,” for that is what the Australian singer/songwriter has done with his 28th (and counting) album. He brought…
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