‘My love is as a fever longing still for that which longer nurseth the disease’
- From Sonnet 147 by William Shakespeare
Paul Kelly announces his 29th studio album ‘Fever Longing Still’ will be released on 1 November 2024
The first single from the album is ‘Taught By Experts’ – a song which Kelly originally recorded as blue grass on his 1999 album ‘Smoke’ with Uncle Bill. Now recorded with full band, ‘Taught By Experts’ seamlessly fits into Paul Kelly’s timeless cannon of classics
Paul Kelly said: “I always had a hankering to record it with chiming electric guitars, a la The La’s, right in (Kelly’s band) Ash (Naylor) and Dan’s (Kelly) wheelhouse. We cut it at Roundhead, Neil Finn’s studio in New Zealand. Cam (Bruce) had a very nice grand piano to play with.”
Paul Kelly’s last album was his celebration of all things Christmas with ‘Paul Kelly’s Christmas Train’, a #1 ARIA Album. His last album of new material was 2018’s ARIA Award winning and #1 album ‘Nature’
‘Fever Longing Still’, a phrase taken from Shakespeare’s Sonnet 147, has a clear theme running through each song. Love. Kelly explains: “For close to fifty years I’ve written mostly love songs. I never know what I’m doing until I’m in the middle of it but, looking back, it seems this record is an attempt to present all those kinds of love songs into one forty minute album. Urgent love, patient love, happy love, sad love, deluded love, clear-eyed love, complicated love, the beginning of love, the end of love; love gone wrong, love pretty right, love of clan, love between parents and children, love of oblivion, love of pain, love of revenge.”