Life Is Fine Paul Kelly

• 1 Rising Moon 03:51
• 2 Finally Something Good 03:23
• 3 Firewood and Candles 02:56
• 4 My Man's Got a Cold 03:08
• 5 Rock out on the Sea 03:38
• 6 Leah: The Sequel 04:04
• 7 Letter in the Rain 03:01
• 8 Josephina 03:01
• 9 Don't Explain 03:05
• 10 I Smell Trouble 04:12
• 11 Petrichor 03:41
• 12 Life Is Fine 02:39
• Total Runtime 40:39

Info for Life Is Fine

Paul Kelly's fascinating and extraordinary career has spanned four decades, in which he has released over 20 albums. It's seen him revered as a songwriter and an exceptional lyricist - an Australian Dylan. Paul has won several awards, including ten ARIA Awards from the Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA), and three APRA Awards from either the Australasian Performing Right Association (APRA) alone or together with the Australian Guild of Screen Composers. APRA named "To Her Door", solely written by Kelly,and "Treaty", written by Kelly and members of Yothu Yindi in their Top 30 best Australian songs of all time in 2001. Kelly was inducted into the ARIA Hall of Fame in 1997, alongside the Bee Gees and Graeme Bell. He has won six Country Music Awards from the Country Music Association of Australia, and four Mo Awards (Australian entertainment industry). David Fricke from Rolling Stone calls Kelly "one of the finest songwriters I have ever heard, Australian or otherwise."

"Australian singer/songwriter Paul Kelly went through an ambitious streak in the 2010s, cutting extended song cycles (Spring and Fall), adapting classic poems to music (Conversations with Ghosts), recording an album of songs for funerals (Death's Dateless Night, with Charlie Owen), and even using Shakespeare's sonnets as his lyrics (Seven Sonnets & a Song). With 2017's Life Is Fine, Kelly seems to have relaxed a bit and returned to what has been familiar territory though much of his career. Though it features one track in which he puts a tune to a poem by Langston Hughes, Life Is Fine is otherwise a set of Paul Kelly originals that find him in a largely upbeat mood while backed by his road band, most of whose members have worked with him for over 20 years. Life Is Fine doesn't break new ground for Kelly, but it also shows he doesn't need to come up with new concepts or mess with his formula in order to make a memorable album. Life Is Fine is a set of songs made of the stuff of everyday life -- tributes to women he loves, mourning relationships that didn't pan out, paying offbeat homage to Roy Orbison, trying to chase away bad luck, even making paella as part of his plan for seduction. There's a frequent wit to these songs, and an even greater sense of humanity, as Kelly captures the details of human nature with a master's touch, not to mention a fluid and effective melodic sense. And if most singer/songwriters wouldn't give two of their songs over to their backing vocalists, Vika Bull brings a sexy sass to "My Man's Got a Cold" that Kelly could never have pulled off (even with a gender switch), and the romantic postmortem of "Don't Explain" was made to order for Linda Bull. Life Is Fine is the work of a master songwriter who knows how to collaborate and can make his tunes work in the studio. One could argue that's just what Kelly has been doing since the mid-'80s, but after over three decades of record-making, it's good to know he hasn't lost his touch and remains in firm command of his craft. Life Is Fine is a keeper." (Mark Deming, AMG)

Paul Kelly, lead vocals, acoustic and electric guitars
Bill McDonald, bass, arrangement
Cameron Bruce, piano, keyboards, backing vocals
Ashley Naylor, lead guitar, backing vocals
Peter Luscombe, drums, percussion, backing vocals
Vika Bull, vocals
Linda Bull, vocals

Paul Kelly
After growing up in Adelaide, Kelly travelled around Australia before settling in Melbourne in 1976. He became involved in the local music scene and recorded two albums with Paul Kelly and the Dots.

Kelly moved to Sydney by 1985, where he formed Paul Kelly and the Coloured Girls, later changing the name of the band to Paul Kelly and The Messengers. At the end of the 1980s, Kelly returned to Melbourne, and in 1991 he disbanded the Messengers.Since 1992 Paul Kelly has had a solo career, fronting the Paul Kelly Band, and since then has worked in occasional collaborations with other songwriters and performers

Kelly has written numerous Top 40 singles include “Billy Baxter”, “Before Too Long”, “Darling It Hurts”, “To Her Door” (his highest-charting local hit in 1987), “Dumb Things” (appeared on United States charts in 1988), and “Roll on Summer”. Top-20 albums include Gossip, Under the Sun, Comedy, Songs from the South (1997compilation, his best-charting album), …Nothing but a Dream, and Stolen Apples.

Kelly has won eight Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) Music Awards, including his induction into their Hall of Fame in 1997. In 2001 the Australasian Performing Rights Association (APRA) listed the Top 30 Australian songs of all time, including Kelly’s “To Her Door”, and “Treaty”, written by Kelly and members of Yothu Yindi. Aside from “Treaty”, Kelly has written or co-written several songs on Indigenous Australian social issues and historical events. He has provided songs for many other artists, tailoring them to their particular vocal range. The album Women at the Well from 2002 had 14 female artists record his songs in tribute.

He continues to cross musical boundaries. Recent albums include the bluegrass-inspired Foggy Highway, the wide ranging double set, Ways & Means and Stolen Apples. The Triple J tribute album Before Too Long, released earlier this year, featuring John Butler, Missy Higgins, Megan Washington, Paul Dempsey, Ozi Batla and many others is evidence of his influence on generations of musicians.

Paul Kelly has recorded seventeen studio albums as well as several film soundtracks (Lantana and the Cannes 2006 highlight, Jindabyne) and live albums, in an influential career spanning more than thirty years. He was inducted into the ARIA Hall of Fame in 1997.

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