September 28, 2023 5:01 am
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EVERY STEP OF THE WAY Every step of the way there’s someone with you. Maybe it starts way back as a kid when your parents make you have piano lessons without asking whether you feel like it or not. A little later on your older brothers and sisters start bringing records into the house. Your second eldest sister teaches you your first chords on guitar – I’m In Love with a Big Blue Frog by Peter, Paul and Mary. Every... View Article
September 28, 2023 5:01 am
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Plaque Ceremony for M Yunupingu. Birany Birany, June 7, 2018 27 years ago I sat around a campfire just over there with a guitar and a man with a big smile who wanted to write a song about making a treaty. We were working on other songs too that my friend had written for Yothu Yindi’s second album and every once in a while we’d come back to the Treaty Song and pick away at it. By the time we... View Article
September 28, 2023 4:57 am
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I was driving the first time I heard Cattle and Cane. I had to pull over and stop the car it was so good. I could smell that song. The Go Betweens hit me at a time when I was trying to figure out how towrite my own songs, brew my own flavour. I studied and stole from them. Every time I play my song Careless I think of their song Apologies Accepted which gave me the chord sequence. Grant... View Article
September 28, 2023 3:45 am
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“Gunnamatta” is the latest feel-good-summer song from Paul Kelly’s most recent album ‘Ways and Means’ that has been serviced to radio. The accompanying clip is a fitting tribute to old surf movies and, of course, Gunnamatta, which is a place very close to Paul Kelly’s heart. Renowned surf movie director Jack McCoy was the obvious choice to work on this project. “When I was first approached about The Boon Companions song “Gunnamatta” and the music clip, I wasn’t quite sure... View Article
