BIOGRAPHY
Ways and Means - 2004
Some of us who should know better pronounce "love songs" with a silent "silly" - as if there were a higher kind. Paul Kelly's new collection, Ways and Means, containing nineteen unruly examples of the species (plus two breezy instrumentals), shows the prejudice for what it is.
The album, Paul's ninth collection of new songs since Post in 1985, takes a single subject, Love and its Many Splendours, and finds abundance: a gushing fountainhead of ruthless tunes, limpet riffs and bootstrap philosophy. Just because the path is well-trodden, don't mean the well is dry.
"I want to write songs that don't get used up in the first couple of listens, that keep revealing things. As with every songwriter, I think, my staple song ...... More>>
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Paul Kelly
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