Paul Kelly

Paul Kelly/Paul Grabowski “Please Leave Your Light On” (Cooking Vinyl, 2020)

August 5, 2020 Paul Kerr 1

When AUK reviewed Paul Kelly’s recent retrospective collection, ‘Songs From The South’, we remarked on Kelly’s magpie like ability to gather up elements from power pop, folk, rock, bluegrass, soul and country over a prolific career […]

Video: Paul Kelly “Sleep, Australia, Sleep”

May 21, 2020 Andrew Frolish 0

The music sounds timeless but the subject-matter is so very now. The latest video from Paul Kelly is his response to the Australian bush fires that ravaged the country last year, an event that seems long-forgotten […]

Paul Kelly “Songs From The South 1985 – 2019” (Cooking Vinyl, 2019)

January 2, 2020 Alasdair Fotheringham 1

It’s a point of pride for Australians that they don’t beat around the bush. So when it comes to reviewing ‘Songs From the South 1985-2019’, by one of that country’s greatest modern-day singer-songwriters, you could maybe […]

Songs for the apocalypse: Paul Kelly “They Thought I Was Asleep”

October 9, 2019 Mark Whitfield 3

Paul Kelly has more pathos in the index finger of his right hand than most songwriters do in their, er, heads – exhibit A is this track, the version of which you can watch below recorded […]

Paul Kelly returns with new album “Nature” – watch the first video

August 10, 2018 Mark Whitfield 2

Leaving you this weekend dear readers with news on an Aussie icon who doesn’t get half the recognition he deserves in Americana circles – he supported Dylan on one of his tours over there so he’s […]

Can’t Live With It, Can’t Live Without It: Tom Waits

August 5, 2026 2

The musical influence of Tom Waits over the last seven decades has spanned far beyond what one might define as americana. His deep, gravely voice, has been described as having been soaked in a vat of […]

Paul McClure “The Good And The Bad Of It”

August 5, 2026 0

The Rutland Troubadour returns for album number four. Paul McClure, on his fourth album, decided to go to pastures new and left the rural north and travelled south to East Sussex and the fine Bex-Pop Studios […]

Artists with Hearts of Gold contribute to two more albums of Neil Young covers