Australia's musical poet laureate Paul Kelly returns with his seventh solo album.
The forthcoming album 'Stolen Apples' is only Kelly's seventh solo work in his over thirty year career. This doesn't mean he hasn't been busy. Despite releasing records with The Dots, The Coloured Girls, The Messengers and Uncle Bill in the past, since he released his last solo effort 'Ways & Means' in 2004, he recorded with bluegrass outfit The Stormwater Boys and as part of kitschy instrumental concept act Stardust Five.'Stolen Apples' finds Paul working with the same backing band from 'Ways & Means' and Stardust Five: nephew Dan Kelly (of Dan Kelly & The Alpha Males), Dan and Peter Luscombe and Bill McDonald. To keep the songs fresh, Kelly recorded quickly then tinkered in his backyard shed studio for months.
In between albums, Kelly has been inducted into the ARIA Hall Of Fame and has had the affecting urban fables in 'Don't Start Me Talking: Lyrics 1984-2004' approved as a VCE text for English poetry. He performs at Live Earth on July 7, with a national tour to be announced following the album's release on that same day.
