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Original Title:	How to Make Gravy
ISBN:	1926428226 (ISBN13: 9781926428222)
Edition Language:	English
Literary Awards:	Prime Minister's
Literary Awards:	Nominee for Nonfiction (2011), Australian Independent Booksellers Indie Book Award Nominee for Non-Fiction (2011), Australian Book Industry Award (ABIA) for Biography (2011)

How to Make Gravy

Paul Kelly

Hardcover | Pages: 576 pages

Rating: 4.3 | 593 Users | 95 Reviews

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Title	:	How to Make Gravy
Author	:	Paul Kelly
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 576 pages
Published	:	October 1st 2010 by Penguin Books Australia (first published September 22nd 2010)
Categories	:	Music. Nonfiction. Biography. Autobiography. Cultural. Australia. Memoir

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This extraordinary book has its genesis in a series of concerts first staged in 2004. Over four nights Paul Kelly performed, in alphabetical order, one hundred of his songs from the previous three decades. In between songs he told stories about them, and from those little tales grew How to Make Gravy, a memoir like no other. Each of its hundred chapters, also in alphabetical order by song title, consists of lyrics followed by a story, the nature of the latter taking its cue from the former. Some pieces are confessional, some tell Kelly's personal and family history, some take you on a road tour with the band, some form an idiosyncratic history of popular music, some are like small essays, some stand as a kind of how-to of the songwriter's art – from the point of inspiration to writing, honing, collaborating, performing, recording and reworking.

Paul Kelly is a born storyteller. Give him two verses with a chorus or 550 pages, but he won't waste a word. How to Make Gravy is a long volume that's as tight as a three-piece band. There isn't a topic this man can't turn his pen to – contemporary music and the people who play it, football, cricket, literature, opera, social issues, love, loss, poetry, the land and the history of Australia … there are even quizzes. The writing is insightful, funny, honest, compassionate, intelligent, playful, erudite, warm, thought-provoking. Paul Kelly is a star with zero pretensions, an everyman who is also a renaissance man. He thinks and loves and travels and reads widely, and his musical memoir is destined to become a classic – it doesn't have a bum note on it.

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Ratings: 4.3 From 593 Users | 95 Reviews

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This book is a revelation.Written lists, anecdotes, histories and stories give you such insight into Kelly's passions, his beliefs, his song-writing process.Accompanied by Music (available on iTunes or CD's) the reading is enhanced by listening to versions of most of the songs hand picked by Kelly.Be warned you will go looking for music and books referenced.I cannot recommend this enough. A thoroughly enjoyable read.

Paul Kelly isn't as well known outside Australia as he ought to be. But even if you don't know his songs, some of which are no-kidding National Treasures by now, this is a fascinating book about songs, about songwriting, and how works of art are born, grow and change and cast different shadows as time goes on.Anyone who's ever tried to write a song or wondered how a song came to be written will find something here. Anyone who knows Raymond Carver's "So Much Water, So Close To Home" will want to

I loved listening to this audiobook alongside Paul Kelly's AtoZ album. Each chapter starts with song lyrics, and then tells some kind of story. Kelly talks about: growing up in Adelaide, growing old, his family, his lovers, coffee, heroin, touring, song writing, other musicians, and other poets. In news that will surprise no one, Kelly is an excellent storyteller, and he narrates the audiobook which makes it extra 👍👍

If ever there was a book I never wanted to end, its this one. I can remember where I was and what I was doing the first time I heard How To Make Gravy the goosebumps up and down my arms. Since then, Ive become a huge fan of Paul Kellys music his storytelling, his vast back-catalogue of songs that speak to people of all generations, his care and advocacy for the downtrodden and dispirited. This mongrel memoir as he calls it, is the accompaniment to 8 discs of music put together after his A to Z

Well it didn't surprise me in the least that I'm giving 5 stars to a book penned by one of my favourite songwriters but damn, this was better than I'd hoped.I'm disappointed that it's finished. I started reading it back in October and even though it weighted about a kilo I've been carrying it around the country wherever I've gone. It was easy to pick up and read a few chapters then pick up something else knowing I could go back to it. I'm going to miss having it there.One thing this books makes

If ever you wanted to write a song, or wonder what it's like to write a song then have to live in a bus rolling across snow playing it every night, then this book is full of invaluable insight.

I really enjoyed the mixture of memoir, music, poetry, travel and personal insight into his world. Paul comes across as a fair-minded, old-fashioned Aussie bloke (cricket tragic) who also led a wild, colourful, vagabond life full of parties, drinks, drugs and friends from every walk of life. Kind of a rough, very talented, sensitive boy-next-door (depending where you live).His 100 song concert is a novel idea and led to a novel novel. He chose 100 songs and sings them from A-Z, 25 each of 4