PAUL KELLY Songs From The South (40 Songs; 1985-2008) Due Sept 6

In North America, PAUL KELLY is loved by a fervent following of devoted, discerning listeners. In his native Australia, though, where his songs are lodged deeply in the country’s soundtrack, Kelly is virtually a national hero.

On September 6, Gawdaggie Music/CEN through RED Distribution will release Kelly’s Songs From the South, Volumes 1 & 2 in the U.S., featuring a quick tour of 40 songs spanning 1985 through 2008. List price for the two-CD set is $13.98, and $9.99 for the digital version.

Paul Kelly Greatest Hits: Songs From The South Volumes 1 & 2

Additionally, Kelly will come to North America in September to perform his “A to Z” repertoire in five major cities: Chicago (Sept. 12/13), Los Angeles (Sept. 14/15), Vancouver (Sept. 18/19), Toronto (Sept. 23/24) and New York (Sept. 26/27).

In a career that spans more than 30 years, Kelly has released a steady stream of albums that showcase his emotionally vivid, musically expansive songwriting, capturing the essence of the Australian landscape while demonstrating Kelly’s uncanny ability to distill a novel’s worth of narrative and character detail into a straightforward, effortlessly accessible melodic pop tune.

Rolling Stone’s David Fricke has called Kelly “one of the finest songwriters I have ever heard, Australian or otherwise,” while Neil Finn of Crowded House has said, “There is something unique and powerful about the way Kelly mixes up everyday detail with the big issues of life, death, love and struggle — not a trace of pretense or fakery in there.” Or, as his fellow Australian Kasey Chambers put it, “If I was only allowed to listen to one artist for the rest of my life, I would choose Paul Kelly.”

Kelly’s stature as a world-class troubadour is confirmed by the release of Paul Kelly’s Greatest Hits: Songs From the South (Volumes 1 & 2), the most comprehensive compilation to date of his recorded work, on Gawdaggie Music/CEN (distributed by RED). The career-spanning two-CD set features 40 songs drawn from Kelly’s esteemed album catalog, combining fan favorites, rare gems and numerous notable songs previously unreleased in North America.

Songs From the South (Volumes 1 & 2) spearheads an ambitious reissue program that will restore Kelly’s remarkable body of recordings to the American market. The campaign also encompasses his dazzling eight-CD, 105-song live box set The A-Z Recordings, which will be available exclusively via Amazon.com, as will Kelly’s mongrel memoir How To Make Gravy, and its corresponding iPhone and iPad App, which combines the book and the music. His entire (non-A&M) catalog will be made available digitally as well.

In January 2012, physical reissues of Kelly’s original albums (most of which have long been out of print, or never released, in America) will begin to become available via Amazon Disc on Demand.

In recent years, Kelly has showcased both the depth of his songbook and his skills as a solo performer with his long-running series of Paul Kelly A-Z shows, in which the artist works his way through an alphabetical list of more than 100 songs during a four-night stand of unplugged concerts.

Kelly has also won numerous awards, including eight Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) Music Awards, and was induced into that organization’s Hall of Fame in 1997.

In spanning his entire recording career, Songs From the South (Volumes 1 & 2) demonstrates that Paul Kelly’s recent output has remained as adventurous and compelling as the early work that first established him as a major artist. His songs remain as fresh and inspired as ever.



PAUL KELLY TOUR DATES
Aug 30 - London, ENG, Bush Hall
Aug 31 - London, ENG, Bush Hall
Sep 01 - London, ENG, Bush Hall
Sep 02 - London, ENG, Bush Hall
Sep 07 - Dublin, IRE, The Sugar Club
Sep 08 - Dublin, IRE, The Sugar Club
Sep 09 - Dublin, IRE, The Sugar Club
Sep 10 - Dublin, IRE, The Sugar Club
Sep 12 - Chicago, IL, Schuba’s
Sep 13 - Chicago, IL, Schuba’s
Sep 14 - Los Angeles, CA, Hotel Café
Sep 15 - Los Angeles, CA, Hotel Café
Sep 18 - Vancouver, BC, Electric Owl
Sep 19 - Vancouver, BC, Electric Owl
Sep 23 - Toronto, ONT, The Dakota Tavern
Sep 24 - Toronto, ONT, The Dakota Tavern
Sep 26 - New York, NY, The Rockwood Music Hall (Stage 2)
Sep 27 - New York, NY, The Rockwood Music Hall (Stage 2)

PAUL KELLY
Songs From The South (Volumes 1 & 2)
Disc 1, 1985-97:
1. From St Kilda To Kings Cross
2. Leaps And Bounds
3. Before Too Long
4. Darling It Hurts
5. Look So Fine, Feel So Low
6. Dumb Things
7. To Her Door
8. Bradman
9. Everything’s Turning To White
10. Sweet Guy
11. Careless
12. Winter Coat
13. From Little Things Big Things Grow
14. When I First Met Your Ma
15. Pouring Petrol On A Burning Man
16. Love Never Runs On Time
17. Song From The Sixteenth Floor
18. Deeper Water
19. Give In To My Love
20. How To Make Gravy

Disc 2, 1998-2008:
1. Nothing on My Mind
2. I'll Be Your Lover
3. Love Letter
4. Our Sunshine
5. Gathering Storm
6. Every Fucking City [Live]
7. Be Careful What You Pray For
8. Love Is the Law
9. If I Could Start Today Again
10. The Oldest Story in the Book
11. Won't You Come Around
12. Gunnamatta
13. Your Lovin' Is on My Mind
14. Song of the Old Rake
15. They Thought I Was Asleep
16. Everybody Loves You Baby
17. God Told Me To
18. You're 39, You're Beautiful and You're Mine
19. Thoughts in the Middle of the Night
20. Shane Warne

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