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PAUL KELLY RELEASES 'THE A TO Z RECORDINGS' BOX SET IN TANDEM WITH AUTOBIOGRAPHY 'HOW TO MAKE GRAVY'

Australian artist kicks off U.S. tour February 28 in Austin, TX

Download exclusive Airplay Direct sampler with 27 tracks from the "A to Z Recordings" box set

1 Anastasia Changes Her Mind 2:33
2 Big Fine Girl 2:39
3 Cities Of Texas 3:52 **
4 Don't Explain 3:02
5 Dumb Things 3:14
6 Everybody Wants To Touch Me 2:57 **
7 (The) Foggy Field Of France 3:55
8 (The) Gift That Keeps On Giving 3:31
9 How To Make Gravy 5:40 **
10 I Won't Be Your Dog 5:09
11 Jump To Love 2:40
12 King Of Fools 2:30
13 Lately 3:33
14 Luck 3:36
15 Meet Me In The Middle Of The Air 2:09 **
16 Nothing But A Dream 3:53 **
17 One More Tune 4:14
18 (The Ballad Of) Queenie And Rover 4:15 **
19 Please Myself 2:46
20 Rally Round The Drum 4:42 **
21 Somewhere In The City 3:37
22 Sydney From A 747 3:07
23 To Her Door 3:38 **
24 Until Death Do Them Part 3:04 **
25 When I First Met Your Ma 4:42 **
26 Young Lovers 3:19
27 Zoe 2:55

** tracks not included on 17-track CD sampler serviced to radio stations

MELBOURNE, Australia— Paul Kelly’s eight-disc live box set The A to Z Recordings will be officially released in North America exclusively via Amazon on February 28. It will also be offered as a deluxe version that includes the singer-songwriter’s critically acclaimed “mongrel memoir” How To Make Gravy.

This career-spanning eight-CD set features 105 songs drawn from Kelly’s esteemed album catalog, combining fan favorites, rare gems and numerous notable songs previously unreleased in North America. Radio stations will be serviced with a 17-track single CD sampler. Exclusive Airplay Direct collection available here adds 10 bonus tracks to include one song for each letter represented on the full box. Despite Kelly's prolificity, he has no songs beginning with V or X.

On his 2012 US tour, Paul Kelly continues is long-running series of A-Z shows, in which the artist works his way through an alphabetical list of more than 100 songs during a multi-night stands of unplugged concerts in select cities.

February 28-29 AUSTIN, TX Cactus Cafe
March 3 PITTSBURGH, PA Club Cafe
March 4 CHARLESTON, WV Mountain Stage
March 5-9 NEW YORK Rockwood Music Hall – Stage 2
March 11-12 VIENNA, VA Jammin’ Java
March 14-15 PHILADELPHIA, PA World Café Live (upstairs)
March 16-17 CAMBRIDGE, MA Passim
March 20 LOS ANGELES, CA Largo at the Coronet
March 22-23 SAN FRANCISCO, CA Swedish American Hall
March 25-26 SEATTLE, WA Triple Door

Rolling Stone’s David Fricke has called Kelly “one of the finest songwriters I have ever heard, Australian or otherwise,” while Neil Finn of Crowded House has said, “There is something unique and powerful about the way Kelly mixes up everyday detail with the big issues of life, death, love and struggle — not a trace of pretense or fakery in there.” Or, as his fellow Australian Kasey Chambers put it, “If I was only allowed to listen to one artist for the rest of my life, I would choose Paul Kelly.”

'How To Make Gravy' has won considerable acclaim, including the Australian Book Industry Award for best biography, and Kelly has also published four volumes of his song lyrics and written pieces for the prestigious Australian magazine The Monthly.

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