Lists, lists, lists… music critics, music fans are full of playlists these days. Themes galore. But what about a soundtrack to one’s memorial service? I don’t plan on dying anytime soon, but any of us could go tomorrow. In the next hour. Especially at my advanced, arthritic, yet “Hold the phone, I’m still 19!” Gen …
Paul Kelly has penned heartbreakers, ballads, tales of struggle and triumph… even songs for funerals. A lullaby, then, hardly raises one’s eyebrows when considering Australia’s preeminent singer/songwriter’s long career. What does grab attention is that his new single, as Kelly puts it, is “a lament in the form of a lullaby. A lullaby that sounds …
She might pass close to your route maybe once a week, a month, a year… sometime she’s so close, you can almost make out her flags; at others, she’s a flickering light in the dark distance. All you can do is keep muscle and coal on hand down in the boiler, the decks swabbed; lines …