| View Larger Image | Foggy Highway | Audio CDby Paul Kelly and the Stormwater Boys
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| | Binding: | Audio CD | | Studio: | Cooking Vinyl | | Release Date: | October 18, 2005 | | Sales Rank: | 158,761th |
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TRACK LISTING |
Disc: 1
- Track 1: Stumbling Block
- Track 2: Rally Round The Drum
- Track 3: Ghost Town
- Track 4: Song Of The Old Rake
- Track 5: Don't Stand So Close To The Window
- Track 6: Passed Over
- Track 7: They Thought I Was Asleep
- Track 8: You're Learning
- Track 9: Foggy Highway
- Track 10: Down To My Soul
- Track 11: Cities Of Texas
- Track 12: Meet Me In The Middle Of The Air
- Track 13: Little Boy Don't Lose Your Balls
- Track 14: Rank Stranger
- Track 15: Erina Valley Breakout
- Track 16: Surely God Is A Lover
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EDITORIAL REVIEWS |
Album Description
Six years after recording his first Bluegrass album, Smoke, with Melbourne based Uncle Bill, Paul Kelly has returned to the genre. This time around, instead of using a ready-made band, he chose his pickers from Australia’s finest Ian Simpson (banjo) from the West, Trevor Warner (mandolin) from Adelaide and Mick Albeck (violin), James Gillard (bass) and Rod McCormack, the guitar-playing co-producer, all from New South Wales - then gathered at Rod’s studio in Terrigal on the Central Coast in mid-February where sixteen tracks were done and dusted in a fortnight. Bluegrass music, pioneered in the mid-1940s by Bill Monroe and his hard-driving band, The Blue Grass Boys, shocked and thrilled audiences across the southern United States on its first appearance. Like the hymns they spring from, Bluegrass songs remind us that we each face our Maker alone. They rehearse that lonely moment and, in their stark staring terror, find grace. It’s this tradition, as much as the instrumental exuberance, that Kelly is drawing upon: his songs, for all their warmth and compassion, have a taste for uncomfortable truth. In this collection, they show a deepening unease. Time’s running out but their mood is nowise contrite. It is haunted and, at times, aggrieved - a mood not entirely broken by the revelation with which the album ends. These songs fit their setting well. Initial copies of the album come with a bonus disc of outtakes from the Terrigal sessions: a brisk, bracing ‘Little Boy Don’t Lose Your Balls’; ‘Rank Stranger’, Albert Brumley’s peerless tale of alienation; the romping instrumental ‘Erina Valley Breakout’, named for the studio location; and Kelly’s own take on ‘Surely God Was A Lover’, the John Shaw Neilson poem he adapted for Jimmy Little’s Resonate. |
CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 4.5 based on 3 reviews)
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Stormwater's Risin' by PHILIP S WOLF (SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, CA. USA)  4 Stars
September 07, 2008
Paul Kelly, is a Legend.
The time is now for America to embrace Australia's premiere Singer/Songwriter: Paul Kelly. For over twenty years, making excellent Records and performing hundreds of concerts all over the World, he is still almost unknown in the USA.
This CD from 2005, is Paul's second recording of Bluegrass Music, and it is a: "Goodin". Paul & The Stormwater Boys tackle 12 wonderful tunes on this CD, and excepting Paul's distinctive vocals, it sounds like 1934 in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina. This is real music, acoustic guitars, fiddle, mandolin, double bass and banjo. The sound of this music is of: lonesome highways and wind in the treetops, with a few snow-fed streams mixed in. It is great acoustic music fueled by modern lyrics that tell some great stories.
From the opener: "Stumbling Block" through to "Meet Me In The Middle Of The Air" this is the most refreshing CD that has come out in years. Bluegrass, Country, Folk, Old Time Gospel and bit of The Blues are all found in this amazing music. Paul's vocals are mixed right up front with the harmonies right there next to him. With the chants of: "Rally Round The Drum", that is a story of a tent boxer who fought volunteers from the audience for a $5.00 payday to the story of a lad in his parents car who overhears his father and mama having a serious conversation up in the front seat in: "They Thought I Was Asleep", the tales that Paul tells are very engrossing.
"Ghost Town" is about the hauntings of everyday life, the music is near the style of The Blues as it must have sounded about 150 years ago, this is Magical Stuff. "Passed Over" is in the Country/Gospel form, by way of Bill Monroe. You really don't hear music played in this fashion anymore, these songs are performed with just strings and voices, they are modern and ancient all at the same time.
The title track: "Foggy Highway" is very different from it's original version of several years back. On this disc, Foggy Highway is transformed with banjo and fiddles from Sydney Australia to a back road in Eastern Tennessee, and this is a ride that is not to be missed. The music of: "Cities Of Texas" is as stark as the place it describes, with just the wind and an endless highway, this song puts you into the middle of the tale. This IS road music, Paul knows what he is doing here, and it's very nice indeed.
The closing song: "Meet Me In The Middle Of the Air" is like a Prayer, uplifting Gospel Music at it's best. In the old Church style of using just voices Paul sings to his maker here, very pretty and very moving.
The first edition of this CD includes a Bonus Disc with 4 extra tracks on it. "Little Boy Don't Lose Your Balls" is as exactly as it sounds, lively and fun. "Rank Stranger" is Old Time Country in Waltz Time, get out your dancin' shoes fer this! "Erina Valley Breakout" is an breakneck-speed instrumental romp on all the strings that the boys could find. "Surely God is a Lover" is another great Paul Kelly original with smart lyrics and a catchy chorus. The Bonus CD is a nice touch, it adds to the package that is presented here.
As I have never found a Paul Kelly CD that was nothing short of excellent, this one is right there for me, amongst his greatest Records.
I never have figured out why this great artist who is a National Treasure in his native land is still so little known here in America. But that is O.K. if he keeps releasing work as good as this, I'll be one of the: "Happy Few" here in California, that enjoy his music.
This is a great CD from a great singer/musician and songwriter: Paul Kelly.
4.5 Stars !!!
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Wonderful Paul Kelly by C. Martin (Santa Cruz Mountains, CA)  5 Stars
January 08, 2007
Lovely, sweet, touching, tough. Such a good song writer. I saw Paul Kelly with the Waifs, and loved him. I listen to him often and hope he comes to the states again soon.
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roots of Australia, leafs of today, sounds real! by Julien Peuble (Paris, France) 5 Stars
October 02, 2006
Just good to hear. salut tout le monde.
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