Paul Kelly

Paul Kelly – Nature (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 32:47 minutes | 353 MB | Genre: Folk Rock, Singer-Songwriter
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Cooking Vinyl

Forty years into his career, legendary Australian singer-songwriter Paul Kelly is still finding new ways to write songs. On his 24th studio album, he continues his recent penchant for pairing music with poems, some his own (“A Bastard Like Me”, a tribute to Aboriginal activist Charles Perkins), others by the likes of Dylan Thomas (“And Death Shall Have No Dominion”), Walt Whitman (“With Animals”) and Philip Larkin (“The Trees”). Linking them all thematically is the natural world and the human place within it, Kelly’s nasally vocal twang guiding beautifully constructed folk songs that oscillate between playful (“God’s Grandeur”), haunting (“Bound to Follow”), cinematic (“Morning Storm”) and plaintive (“Seagulls of Seattle”).
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Paul Kelly – Paul Kelly’s Christmas Train (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:14:49 minutes | 871 MB | Genre: Folk, Christmas
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Cooking Vinyl Limited

Paul Kelly’s first Christmas album is an extraordinary 22-song double collection that travels across the centuries, from a Latin hymn to well-known carols, from a traditional Irish folk ballad to new Kelly music written for Christmas poems.
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Paul Kelly – Paul Kelly’s Christmas Train (2023 Edition) (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:22:45 minutes | 956 MB | Genre: Pop
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Cooking Vinyl Limited

That’s it from us for this week dear reader. If you are one of the many of us heading down to London this weekend for the “hate march” (!) then stay safe. We leave you with the next song in our continuing quest to make AUK readers aware that Aussie singer-songwriter Paul Kelly is one of the seven wonders of the world. Today Paul releases the 2023 edition of what’s become an annual tradition now, ‘Paul Kelly’s Christmas Train’. The 2023 digital edition of the album features two new tracks, ‘Cherry Tree Carol’ and ‘White Wine In The Sun’, the first of which you can hear below – it beats most of what you’ll hear in our Christmas chart this year including Ladbaby (but probably not including ‘Stop the Cavalry’ to be a fair. It’s a close call though.) Take care.

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Paul Kelly – Paul Kelly’s Christmas Train (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:17:20 minutes | 913 MB | Genre: Pop
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Cooking Vinyl Limited

Paul Kelly’s first Christmas album is an extraordinary 22-song double collection that travels across the centuries, from a Latin hymn to well-known carols, from a traditional Irish folk ballad to new Kelly music written for Christmas poems.

The 2022 edition features new bonus track “Maybe This Christmas.”

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