Paul Kelly - The A to Z Recordings (Live) [2010] (8 x CD's)

PAUL KELLY

Paul Kelly - The A-To-Z Recordings (Live) [2010] (8 x CD's)

The A – Z Recordings is an eight-volume live album by Australian rock musician, Paul Kelly, which was released on 24 September 2010 on Gawd Aggie Records in Australia and Universal Import in North America. It had been recorded from a series of performances from 2004 to 2010 on Kelly's A – Z Tours in various locations. The tours led to Kelly writing his memoir, How to Make Gravy (named for the song of the same name), also in September 2010. Kelly's A – Z Tours continued until March 2012. Rolling Stone's Jason Cohen described the release as "a 106-track, eight-CD boxed set culled from Kelly's now-trademark A to Z live performances" (Wikipedia)

Paul Kelly may not have the lyrical precision and quiet solemnity of Leonard Cohen, or the astonishing fluency and imaginative extravagance of Dylan at his best, but he is one hell of a storyteller. As good as anyone going around. His songs are masterpieces of compressed narrative. In three stanzas he can give you all you need to know about love and loss or finding what has been lost and treasuring it. His delivery is always straight from the heart, and pretty well every song in this collection feels as immediately familiar as your favorite pair of shoes. He is the real deal. Anyone who likes well-crafted beautiful songs sung with soul should get this collection. I prefer these stripped-down renditions to the versions with a full band. The sparsity translates into an intimacy that, I think, the songs themselves cry out for. Yes, it is 8 CDs, but not one of them is less than wonderful. If you get this, you might as well buy his book How to Make Gravy as well - it is a terrific read, and if you are a singer songwriter you will love it. (Amazon)

Kelly fans have known for decades: that he is a songwriter whose peers are few; they include Townes Van Zandt, Paul Simon, Bob Dylan, Van Morrison, Elvis Costello, and Ronnie Laine.

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Track lists

CD1

01 Paul Kelly - Adelaide 3:47

02 Paul Kelly - After the Show 3:04

03 Paul Kelly - Anastasia Changes Her Mind 2:33

04 Paul Kelly - Be Careful What You Pray For 2:54

05 Paul Kelly - Beautiful Promise 3:02

06 Paul Kelly - Before Too Long 3:42

07 Paul Kelly - Beggar on the Street of Love 3:14

08 Paul Kelly - Behind the Bowler's Arm 3:00

09 Paul Kelly - Big Fine Girl 2:39

10 Paul Kelly - Blues for Skip 3:17

11 Paul Kelly - Bradman 7:10

12 Paul Kelly - (The) Cake and the Candle 3:22

13 Paul Kelly - Careless 3:44

14 Paul Kelly - Change Your Mind 3:48

15 Paul Kelly - Charlie Owen's Slide Guitar 3:28

16 Paul Kelly - Cities of Texas 3:51

CD2

01 Paul Kelly - Coma 3:12

02 Paul Kelly - Cradle of Love 2:50

03 Paul Kelly - Deeper Water 4:35

04 Paul Kelly - Desdemona 4:03

05 Paul Kelly - Difficult Woman 3:49

06 Paul Kelly - Don't Explain 3:01

07 Paul Kelly - Don't Harm the Messenger 3:57

08 Paul Kelly - Don't Stand So Close to the Window 2:57

09 Paul Kelly - Don't Start Me Talking 2:59

10 Paul Kelly - Down to My Soul 2:55

11 Paul Kelly - Dumb Things 3:13

12 Paul Kelly - Emotional 4:56

13 Paul Kelly - Every Fucking City 3:52

14 Paul Kelly - Everybody Wants to Touch Me 2:57

15 Paul Kelly - Everything's Turning to White 4:49

CD3

01 Paul Kelly - (The) Foggy Fields of France 3:53

02 Paul Kelly - Foggy Highway 3:28

03 Paul Kelly - Forty Miles to Saturday Night 2:21

04 Paul Kelly - Forty-eight Angels 3:58

05 Paul Kelly - From Little Things Big Things Grow 6:36

06 Paul Kelly - From St Kilda to Kings Cross 3:33

07 Paul Kelly - Gathering Storm 2:36

08 Paul Kelly - God Told Me To 3:30

09 Paul Kelly - (The) Gift That Keeps on Giving 3:31

10 Paul Kelly - Glory Be to God 3:09

11 Paul Kelly - Going About My Father's Business 2:48

12 Paul Kelly - How to Make Gravy 5:40

CD4

01 Paul Kelly - I Can't Believe We Were Married 2:56

02 Paul Kelly - I Close My Eyes and Think of You 4:06

03 Paul Kelly - I Don't Know Anything Anymore 2:10

04 Paul Kelly - I Keep on Coming Back for More 4:00

05 Paul Kelly - I'd Rather Go Blind 3:07

06 Paul Kelly - If I Could Start Today Again 2:46

07 Paul Kelly - I Wasted Time 2:38

08 Paul Kelly - I Won't Be Your Dog 5:09

09 Paul Kelly - Jandamarra/Pigeon 2:10

10 Paul Kelly - Jump to Love 2:39

11 Paul Kelly - Just About to Break 3:10

12 Paul Kelly - King of Fools 2:30

13 Paul Kelly - Lately 3:32

14 Paul Kelly - Leaps and Bounds 3:23

CD5

01 Paul Kelly - Little Boy, Don't Lose Your Balls 2:09

02 Paul Kelly - Love is the Law 3:59

03 Paul Kelly - Love Never Runs on Time 3:06

04 Paul Kelly - Luck 3:36

05 Paul Kelly - Maralinga (Rainy Land) 4:00

06 Paul Kelly - Meet Me in the Middle of the Air 2:08

07 Paul Kelly - Midnight Rain 4:23

08 Paul Kelly - My Way is to You 4:22

09 Paul Kelly - No You 4:15

10 Paul Kelly - Nothing but a Dream 3:52

11 Paul Kelly - (The) Oldest Story in the Book 4:21

12 Paul Kelly - One More Tune 4:14

13 Paul Kelly - Other People's Houses 6:43

CD6

01 Paul Kelly - Our Sunshine 3:51

02 Paul Kelly - Please Myself 2:45

03 Paul Kelly - Pretty Place 2:58

04 Paul Kelly - (The Ballad Of) Queenie and Rover 4:15

05 Paul Kelly - Rally Round the Drum 4:41

06 Paul Kelly - Randwick Bells 4:19

07 Paul Kelly - Saturday Night and Sunday Morning 2:58

08 Paul Kelly - Shane Warne 3:37

09 Paul Kelly - Smoke Under the Bridge 4:16

10 Paul Kelly - Somebody's Forgetting Somebody 3:40

11 Paul Kelly - Somewhere in the City 3:37

12 Paul Kelly - South of Germany 2:37

CD7

01 Paul Kelly - Standing on the Street of Early Sorrows 4:57

02 Paul Kelly - Stolen Apples 3:53

03 Paul Kelly - Stories of Me 2:53

04 Paul Kelly - Stupid Song 3:37

05 Paul Kelly - Summer Rain 3:01

06 Paul Kelly - Sweet Guy 4:20

07 Paul Kelly - Sydney from a 747 3:07

08 Paul Kelly - They Thought I Was Asleep 3:30

09 Paul Kelly - Thoughts in the Middle of the Night 5:11

10 Paul Kelly - To Her Door 3:37

11 Paul Kelly - Until Death Do Them Part 3:04

CD8

01 Paul Kelly - When I First Met Your Ma 4:42

02 Paul Kelly - Winter Coat 4:12

03 Paul Kelly - Won't You Come Around? 2:53

04 Paul Kelly - Would You Be My Friend? 2:56

05 Paul Kelly - You Broke a Beautiful Thing 4:51

06 Paul Kelly - You Can Put Your Shoes Under My Bed 3:56

07 Paul Kelly - You Can't Take It with You 3:07

08 Paul Kelly - Your Little Sister is a Big Girl Now 3:14

09 Paul Kelly - Young Lovers 3:19

10 Paul Kelly - You're 39, You're Beautiful and You're Mine 2:48

11 Paul Kelly - Your Loving is on My Mind 3:26

12 Paul Kelly - Zoe 2:54

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