Pet Sounds was the ground-breaking psychedelic rock album that featured Wouldn’t It Be Nice, Sloop John B, and God Only Knows – the song that Sir Paul McCartney called ‘the most beautiful song ever written’. ‘The inimitable musical genius Brian Wilson comes to Bluesfest this year performing Pet Sounds plus his greatest hits in an extended set featuring an 11-piece band including original Beach Boys member Al Jardine and long-term member Blondie Chaplin (and my talented friend Clare Yerbury on cello!). His accolades include ARIA wins and nominations, MBAS Blues Performer of the Year 2003 award, AIR Best Independent Blues and Roots Album, LA Critics Award (US) and, in 2009, he garnered a prestigious APRA songwriting award for Blues & Roots Song of the Year.Īnd this ain’t for nought it’s all because of his blistering live sets at sell-out shows throughout the world. With unparalleled creativity and an unbridled spirit of diversity, Ash Grunwald has pushed the boundaries of traditional blues, reggae and every genre between, developing a unique brand of Grunwaldian fusion. Influenced by gospel, jazz and especially the soulful American singers such as Sam Cooke and Nat King Cole, he was early inspired as a child by a Hank Williams song and which, Archie says, made him pick up a guitar and in time become a songwriter.Īrchie’s songs bring audiences together to think of the hurt we cause one another but also the forgiveness that heals and lets us rise above it all. Archie’s voice, with a tremor like broken moonlight, washes in across the southern ocean. ![]() The secret beating heart of Archie Roach’s music is the connection to his country and people. ![]() Archie humbly came to understand the special power of music to make people listen, think and feel so very deeply. ![]() ![]() Looking back, it may mean more that Archie’s truthful song and the humanity that made Paul Kelly and Steve Connolly want to produce this first album was honoured with a Human Rights Award. Now, celebrating the 25th anniversary of Charcoal Lane, which includes the original album remastered plus newly recorded versions of Charcoal Lane material by Paul Kelly and Courtney Barnett, Briggs, Gurrumul and Dewayne Everett-Smith, Dan Sultan and Emma Donovan and others, plus 1990 Triple J ‘Live at the Wireless’ recordings, he has made a triumphant return from incredible adversity and personal pain, bold enough to come back to the stage and the spotlight and tell us what he has learned.Ĭharcoal Lane won two ARIA awards, gold status in Australia, was acclaimed in US Rolling Stone’s Top 50 Albums for 1992, and entered into the National Film and Sound Archive’s (NFSA) prestigious Sounds of Australia register. A Bundjalung/Gunditjmara man, Archie Roach OAM is one of Australia’s beloved, respected and admired singer/songwriters with a voice and sensibility that is this country’s most important songline.Ī venerable and dignified performer, he captured the hearts and minds of a nation in 1990 with Charcoal Lane and the landmark song Took the Children Away.
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