Words and Music (Paul Kelly album)

Words and Music

Studio album by Paul Kelly

Released

10 May 1998

Genre

Folk/Rock

Label

Mushroom (AUS)
Vanguard Records (US)

Producer

Paul Kelly
Mark Opitz
Simon Polinski

Paul Kelly chronology

Songs from the South
(1997)

Words and Music
(1998)

Nothing But A Dream
(2001)

Singles from Words and Music

"Nothing on my Mind"
Released: 1997
"Saturday Night and Sunday Morning"
Released: 1998
"I'll Be Your Lover"
Released: 1998
"Melting"
Released: 1998

Words And Music is an album recorded by Paul Kelly and originally released in 1998. It was released on Mushroom Records in Australia and Vanguard Records in the United States. The US release include one additional track, "How to Make Gravy", which was released as a separate Extended Play prior to the release of Words and Music in Australia and was nominated as 'Song of the Year' at the 1997 Australian Record Industry Association (ARIA) Awards.^[1]

The album peaked at #17 on the ARIA albums chart^[2] and #44 on the NZ album charts,^[3] and was certified gold.^[4] The album included three singles that did not reach the Top 40 singles chart.^[2]

Kelly was nominated and won an ARIA Award in the category 'Best Male Artist' for Words and Music in 1998.^[5]

Track listing

All songs were written by Paul Kelly, except where noted.

"Little Kings" – 5:17
"I'll Be Your Lover" – 4:12
"Nothing on My Mind" (Kelly, Peter Luscombe, Steve Hadley) – 4:55
"Words and Music" – 4:40
"Gutless Wonder" – 4:56
"Tease Me" (Kelly, Bruce Haymes) – 4:08
"I'd Rather Go Blind" – 3:12
"She Answers the Sun (Lazy Bones)" (with Rebecca Barnard) – 5:24
"Beat of Your Heart" – 5:48
"It Started with a Kiss" (Errol Brown) – 4:15
"Glory Be to God" – 4:07
"Saturday Night and Sunday Morning" – 4:06
"Charlie Owen's Slide Guitar" – 3:47
"Melting" (Kelly, Monique Brumby) (with Monique Brumby) – 5:12

Personnel

Rebecca Barnard – vocals ("She Answers the Sun", "Beat of your Heart")
John Barrett – saxophone ("Gutless Wonder")
Monique Brumby – vocals ("Melting")
Renee Geyer – vocals ("Beat of your Heart")
Steve Hadley – bass
Spencer P. Jones – guitar
Paul Kelly – guitar, vocals
Bruce Haymes – keyboards
Laurence Maddy – horns ("Words and Music")
Peter Luscombe – drums
Shane O'Mara – guitar
Russell Smith – horns ("Words and Music")

Credits

Producer – Paul Kelly
Producer – Mark Opitz (tracks: 6, 10, 14)
Producer – Simon Polinski (track: 7)
Engineer – Chris Dickie (tracks: 6, 10, 14)
Engineer – Laurence Maddy (tracks: 1 to 5, 8, 9, 11 to 13)
Assistant Engineer – Charlie Macneil (tracks 6, 10, 14)

References

↑ "ARIA Awards: History: Winners by Award: Song of the Year". Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA). Retrieved 2 March 2012.
1 2 "Discography Paul Kelly". Australian Charts Portal. Retrieved 2008-08-15.
↑ "Paul Kelly New Zealand Charting". New Zealand charts portal. Charts.org.nz. Retrieved 2008-08-28.
↑ "ARIA Charts - Accreditations - 1998 Albums". Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA). Retrieved 2008-09-01.
↑ "ARIA Awards 2008: History: Winners by Artist search result for Paul Kelly". Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA). Retrieved 2008-08-25.

Paul Kelly

Studio Albums	Talk Manila Post Gossip Under the Sun So Much Water So Close to Home Comedy Hidden Things Wanted Man Deeper Water Words and Music Smoke Professor Ratbaggy Nothing But a Dream Ways & Means Foggy Highway Stardust Five Stolen Apples Spring and Fall The Merri Soul Sessions

Compilation / Live Albums	Live, May 1992 Live at the Continental and the Esplanade Songs from the South Songs from the South - Volume 2 The A – Z Recordings Goin' Your Way (with Neil Finn)

EPs	How to Make Gravy Roll on Summer Paul Kelly Exclusive CD Won't You Come Around

Singles	"Recognition" "Seeing Is Believing" "Billy Baxter" "Love Is the Law" "Lowdown" "Clean this House" "Alive and Well" "Rocking Institution" "From St Kilda to Kings Cross" "Before Too Long" "Darling It Hurts" "Leaps and Bounds"/"Bradman" "Look So Fine, Feel So Low" "To Her Door" "The Execution" "Forty Miles to Saturday Night" "Don't Stand So Close to the Window" "Dumb Things" "Sweet Guy" "Careless" "Most Wanted Man in the World" "Pouring Petrol on a Burning Man" "Don't Start Me Talking" "Keep it to Yourself" "Wintercoat" "Hey Boys" "When I First Met Your Ma" "Last Train" "Song from the Sixteenth Floor" "Love Never Runs on Time" "God's Hotel" "Give In to My Love" "Deeper Water" "How to Make Gravy" "Tease Me" "Before Too Long" "Nothing on my Mind" "Saturday Night and Sunday Morning" "I'll Be Your Lover" "Melting" "Roll on Summer" "Somewhere in the City" "Love Is the Law" "If I Could Start Today Again" "The Gift That Keeps on Giving" "Just About to Break" "Won't You Come Around" "Beautiful Feeling" "God Told Me To" "I Wish I Was a Train" "To Her Door (Live)" "New Found Year"

DVD / Videos	Leaps and Bounds – The Early Videos Paul Kelly and the Messengers 1986–1992 Live at the Athenaeum, May 1992 Songs from the South: Greatest Hits Ways and Means Live Apples The Video Collection 1985-2008

Score / Soundtrack Albums	Funerals and Circuses Seven Deadly Sins: Music from the ABC TV Series Everynight ... Everynight The Big House One Night the Moon: Original Soundtrack Lantana: Music for the Feature Film Silent Partner Fireflies: Songs of Paul Kelly Tom White Jindabyne Conversations with Ghosts

Tribute Albums	Women at the Well Stories of Me Before Too Long: Triple J's Tribute to Paul Kelly

Related articles	Awards Discography Professor Ratbaggy Stardust Five Paul Kelly: Stories of Me

Categories	Members Albums Songs

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