Paul Kelly - Deeper Water
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Artist: Paul KellyEdition: Music CD
Format: Original recording reissued
CD Release Date: 2002-08-13
Music Label: Vanguard Records
Soundtracks:
- Blush
- Extra Mile
- I'll Forgive But I Won't Forget
- Queen Stone
- Deeper Water
- Madeleine's Song
- Difficult Woman
- Give In To My Love
- I've Been A Fool
- Anastasia Changes Her Mind
- California
- Gathering Storm
Music reviews of Deeper Water
Music Review: Bigger than a Cadillac
Rating: 4 Stars
"Deeper Water" recently surfaced for me. There are three exceptional tracks. The opener "Blush" has a great expansive vocal on the addictive chorus, sounding like an Australian Eagles track with a driving beat, "All I want, I confess, I just want to see her blush, all across her chest, take off her cotton dress." The title track also rocks with a vengence and has a great life cycle theme from young boy, to young man, to aging man, "Well the years hurry by & the woman loves the man, then one night in the dark she grabs hold of his hand, says, "There, can you feel it kicking inside!" "Give In To My Love," is a great pop confection with drving lead guitar & some obvious double entendre, "I want to show you my love; it's bigger than a Cadillac, but you keep up your resistance & you drive me back; I want to show you all my love; it's bigger than a Cadillac." Other tracks on the CD are consistently good. Notably, the bounce of "Extra Mile," the sense of surprise & betrayal on "I'll Forgive But I Won't Forget," the South African mbaqanga on "Madeleine's Song," the blues-inflected guitar on "Difficult Woman"; and the dreamy drench of sound on "California." "Deeper Water" is a good set with some classic tracks that still sounds fresh. I hope this one washes up on your beach! Enjoy!
Description of Deeper Water
1995 album for the critically acclaimed Aussie singer songwriter. 12 tracks including, 'Madeleine's Song', 'Gathering Storm' & 'I'll Forgive But I Won't Forget'.The title song of Paul Kelly's brilliant Deeper Water begins with a childhood memory of being carried in his father's strong arms above the crashing waves of the Indian Ocean. A folkish, nostalgic arpeggio is played on an electric guitar as the verse gives way to the hymn-like chorus, "Deeper water, deeper water, calling him on." To this point, the song has the well-crafted, country-folk feel of a John Hiatt family number, but then it falls apart. The pretty folk arrangement is overtaken by a disorienting, Lou Reed-ish guitar riff as if the singer had dropped into a bottomless sea, and Kelly describes the analogous experience of falling in love with a woman only to watch her waste away from disease. He sings the fetching melody of the chorus in the same deadpan tone, but now it has a very different connotation. It would seem nearly impossible to capture the tuneful domesticity of Hiatt's work and the droning nightmares of Reed's on the same album--much less the same song--but Australia's Paul Kelly is an extraordinary songwriter and singer. Kelly has had a few hits and exerts lots of influence at home in the antipodes, but he's little more than a rumor in North America, despite releasing six of his 11 albums here, of which this is among the best. He foregoes the obvious gestures of pop music for insinuating rhythms and unassuming melodies which sneak up on the listener and slowly but surely seep in. This understated approach fits his lyrics, which are too aware of the paradoxes and gray areas of adult relationships to deliver simple answers to familiar questions. The album, recorded in Melbourne with Kelly's current Australian band, is full of hints at anger, lust, giddiness and sadness lurking behind the low-key craft of Kelly's rootsy bar-band music. --Geoffrey Himes
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