Paul Kelly: Spring and Fall

By Team JamBase Oct 10, 2012 7:44 am PDT

PAUL KELLY TO RELEASE SPRING AND FALL ON NOVEMBER 6

Paul Kelly’s remarkable new 11-song album Spring And Fall — his 19th studio album and first collection of new material in five years — ranks with the seminal Australian singer-songwriter’s most memorable and resonant work, demonstrating why he’s virtually a national hero in his home country and one of the most celebrated songwriters on the planet.

Spring And Fall arrives November 6 on the heels of an extended period of retrospective activity, during which Kelly celebrated his extensive body of work with the release of the career-spanning 40-song compilation Songs From the South (Volumes 1 & 2) and the eight-CD, 105-song live box set The A-Z Recordings.

Kelly, accompanied by noted Australian producer/multi-instrumentalist J. Walker from Machine Translations and Paul’s frequent tour guitarist (and nephew) Dan Kelly, recorded most of the album in an isolated country hall in the hills of the remote rural region of South Gippsland in Victoria, Australia in the dead of a turbulent winter, with violent storms, floods, power failures and mild earthquakes regularly threatening to throw the project into turmoil. Despite the threats from nature, the pieces ultimately fell into place, with the sessions emphasizing the immediacy of the live, up-close performances and stark, stripped-down arrangements, with the sounds of the wind and the rain occasionally getting into the microphones. The result is one of the most effortlessly compelling albums of Kelly’s storied career.

Spring and Fall Track List

  • 1. New Found Year
  • 2. When A Woman Loves A Man
  • 3. For The Ages
  • 4. Gonna Be Good
  • 5. Someone New
  • 6. Time And Tide
  • 7. Sometimes My Baby
  • 8. Cold As Canada
  • 9. I’m On Your Side
  • 10. None Of Your Business Now
  • 11. Little Aches And Pains
  • 12. Where Are You Roaming (bonus track)

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