Don't worry about it Greg. I tear up every time. I have tradition to listen to it every 21/12 and that was my mother's birthday. Truly one of Oz's great balladeers/poets.
I've seen Paul Kelly sing this live and it breaks something inside me. It's my family's Christmas song and is always on when I'm making gravy. Tears and all.
Its a epic song from Paul, the 21st of December is now celebrated as Gravy Day here in OZ simply because of this song. Paul re released it again in 2021 because of the severe COVID lockdowns here in Australia where we were all Joe locked in and not seeing those we love for Christmas. There is a beautiful Video I will attach for you to view of this song done from videos sent in by his fans when asked by Paul from all over the world beautifully edited and released so we all could share each others pain and loss. The song came about when Paul was asked to contribute to a Salvation Army Christmas charity album but the song he choose was already taken and he asked if he could write one of his own, and in his own words he chose to do one along the lines of White Christmas where the person in the song could not be home with the ones he loved and this was born. It is a much loved song here and each time i hear it myself I well up, so ty for enjoying Paul Kelly our master storyteller and much loved man. Keep Safe Keep Strong 🦘🦘🦘🦘❤❤❤❤🎶🎶🎵🎵🎶🎶 ruclips.net/video/BOWtK6HYCSE/видео.html
Liked your reaction video, many other versions available including "Covid" and "Live in Toowoomba" in extended concert. The electric mandolin player was Tim Fisher a local Femantle muso of long standing and relative of Tim Minchin (uncle, cousin ?). Also INXS in their prime, "Live at Wembley Stadium" , were fantastic.
Greg , heartwarming to see you moved, even if it is just a little bit by the music. Paul Kelly is a great storyteller. We all know almost straight away what we like and don’t like, so stay true, Cheers .
Paul Kelly is a genius wordsmith, all of his songs are storytelling in it's simplest most emotive form. Who would think a title like that could turn into a absolute heart wrenching song. 'Careless', 'Dumb Things', 'To Her Door' and 'From Little Things Big Things Grow' the story of indigenous land rights are epic works for the ordinary person, pure joy. Please do some more of his stories, thanks for your channel.
This song is a classic and after nearing 30 years still makes me tear up. Maybe close to Christmas you can revisit 'How to Make Gravy - 2021 version' This was done in the depths of Covid when many families were not allowed to travel both in Australia and overseas. The video is made up of ordinary Australians sending in a video of them singing the song and wishing loved ones a Merry Christmas. It will have you balling - just amazing.
My son was one of those stuck in France with his visa running into the ground … but I disagree; the Covid version was just fine for then but we shouldn’t hark back to it when the original version is tasking us to embrace the grief of even those we may feel don’t deserve it. That’s why it’s a great Christmas song.
I'm not sure why a Xmas song, written from the perspective of a man in prison resonates so strongly with us, but it does. Might have something to do with our convict roots, but I think it's just a great song. There's a brilliant version on here, filmed during lockdown with people lip syncing while holding up signs for the people they wouldn't be able to see. It makes me cry every time. And yes, 21st December is now Gravy Day. Feel free to join us this year. Own your tears... You've had a terrible week, and tears sometimes sneak up on you... Well, they sneak up on me at least.
Another lovely few minutes listening to a fantastic song with you Greg. Thanks. So glad I stumbled on your channel. Anyhoo, just wanted to let you know that this is actually a performance from Paul Kelly & the Stormwater Boys. I'm not sure if they're an actual band or if it was just the name the group of folks Paul assembled for an album gave themselves. 'Foggy Highway' from 2005. An absolute masterpiece. I think you'd love everything on it.
In Australia Christmas is secular now. It is celebrated as a family occasion. People who have not seen each other for months or years get together to celebrate the love that is the basis of families. It is a time of intense nostalgia. The streets are alive with Christmas decorations despite the fact that the country is secular and only about 1% go to church. It is a time also of acute loneliness for some, the elderly the homeless or in this occasion for those in jail. The suggestion in the song of realties coming down from Queensland shows the importance. Queensland is a huge distance from Melbourne. it is like someone from Poland vesting someone in Ireland. The song was never a hit it was released as a bonus on a longer disk. But now it is a Australia classic. The 21st of December is now known as gravy day in Australia
This is one of those songs, that I not have any Paul Kelly albums or seen him live but after this song sneaks up on you over decades you just think of it as a classic. Very much like Bob Dylan from USA with great song writing. Love the song Hurricane, by Bob Dylan, in the same way.
Yeah, gravy day is unofficial but i'm sure you can see why Aussies have embraced this song so much. It is genius to use such a topic to show the emotion and importance of family and tradition.
I'm so glad you commented. RUclips is being a real asshole and block a lot of your comments. God knows I couldn't make decisions for myself and need my nanny to do it for me.
@@mals4125 I’d love to see Greg go down the Tim rabbit hole. Of course it’s really dependent on whether Tim is his thing or not.. I really respect that Greg reacts to stuff he likes himself rather than pandering to the masses. If he likes something he delves into it more.
Paul put out a Christmas Album 2021. My very favourite from it is Marlon Williams doing O Holy Night. Maybe you could do a Christmas week in December. A Paul Kelly Christmas Week
Fantastic storyteller ✨️ Isn't it unusually format of a tune, a letter to a family member, rather than verses and chorus? It just works, though. PS, you're allowed your own tastes.... but do you have a list of artists you prefer not to cover?
@@deepcutsreactions7774 Feel free to share - there are bands from the late 70’s that grate on me so much I have to abandon my shopping cart when they pop up on the supermarket playlist. But I guess that sharing the love and sharing the hate are different things. Still curious tho.
@ I grew up in a small town you’d call regional rust belt and UK hard rock was the go. I got tired of it before I was 16 and turned to the US or folky things locally. Our town was noted for booing the disco Australian Queen of pop off stage when she visited. I’m embarrassed by that now but back then I was just nerh. Marcia Hines her name was; she got picked up by an Aussie producer from Chicago when she was 16 yrs old to play in the musical Hair in Australia. Afterwards she played Mary Magdalene in JCS. Apart from being a wonderful person she was a really good artist, not so much laterly but she’s getting on. When she left Chicago in a taxi to the airport Fire & Rain topped the charts in the US and she made the promise to herself that if she ever became a recording artist - that would be the first song. Jimmy Barnes did a series of unplugged, just in his lounge room - duets on the basis of his guests first recording, gig or just first love of music. Check it out. It’s not disco. My issue was with supertramp, ELO, Queen etc. - like when UK prog rock got even worse. Can’t stand it, nor Elton John or that piano man guy. Also irritated a little bit by the Stones for being such massive grifters. But I have made my peace with a few selected disco tunes despite not being able to dance to them.
If you’re looking for more bluegrass musicianship even if the genre may be in another shape then go to PK’s Channel here and under releases you’ll see albums by Uncle Bill as well as Stormwater Boys who played this song. Some of these musicians played in both, some even played in different genre albums he did but those are the 2 that feature those instruments. I don’t like the Stormwater version of Rally Round The Drum - best version by the author Archie Roach with Kelly and Paul Grabowsky but the one they did bluegrass sucked up all the beautiful soul out of it.
Love this song. There is a lyric change from the original regarding Meridiths’ old boyfriend, what was his name again? - didn’t get Nina Simone was originally Just a little bit too much cologne. Always disappointed by that change coz the original played up the big brother/little sister dynamic perfectly in an authentic way but dissing a teenagers lack of music appreciation is just bullying.
Don't worry about it Greg. I tear up every time. I have tradition to listen to it every 21/12 and that was my mother's birthday. Truly one of Oz's great balladeers/poets.
My Brothers birthday as well, he passed from cancer 4/4/2019. Always get a few tears on that day now as well.
There's no greater "can't get home for xmas" than being stuck in gaol. Paul Kelly tapped into that beautifully. Gets me in the feels every time... :)
Yes, well said.
I've seen Paul Kelly sing this live and it breaks something inside me. It's my family's Christmas song and is always on when I'm making gravy. Tears and all.
Its a epic song from Paul, the 21st of December is now celebrated as Gravy Day here in OZ simply because of this song. Paul re released it again in 2021 because of the severe COVID lockdowns here in Australia where we were all Joe locked in and not seeing those we love for Christmas.
There is a beautiful Video I will attach for you to view of this song done from videos sent in by his fans when asked by Paul from all over the world beautifully edited and released so we all could share each others pain and loss. The song came about when Paul was asked to contribute to a Salvation Army Christmas charity album but the song he choose was already taken and he asked if he could write one of his own, and in his own words he chose to do one along the lines of White Christmas where the person in the song could not be home with the ones he loved and this was born. It is a much loved song here and each time i hear it myself I well up, so ty for enjoying Paul Kelly our master storyteller and much loved man.
Keep Safe Keep Strong 🦘🦘🦘🦘❤❤❤❤🎶🎶🎵🎵🎶🎶
ruclips.net/video/BOWtK6HYCSE/видео.html
Liked your reaction video, many other versions available including "Covid" and "Live in Toowoomba" in extended concert. The electric mandolin player was Tim Fisher a local Femantle muso of long standing and relative of Tim Minchin (uncle, cousin ?). Also INXS in their prime, "Live at Wembley Stadium" , were fantastic.
Greg , heartwarming to see you moved, even if it is just a little bit by the music. Paul Kelly is a great storyteller. We all know almost straight away what we like and don’t like, so stay true, Cheers .
Paul Kelly is a genius wordsmith, all of his songs are storytelling in it's simplest most emotive form. Who would think a title like that could turn into a absolute heart wrenching song. 'Careless', 'Dumb Things', 'To Her Door' and 'From Little Things Big Things Grow' the story of indigenous land rights are epic works for the ordinary person, pure joy. Please do some more of his stories, thanks for your channel.
We have our story-teller singers in Australia and Paul Kelly is certainly up there with the best !
This song is a classic and after nearing 30 years still makes me tear up.
Maybe close to Christmas you can revisit 'How to Make Gravy - 2021 version'
This was done in the depths of Covid when many families were not allowed to travel both in Australia and overseas. The video is made up of ordinary Australians sending in a video of them singing the song and wishing loved ones a Merry Christmas.
It will have you balling - just amazing.
Heart wrenching is that version.
My son was one of those stuck in France with his visa running into the ground … but I disagree; the Covid version was just fine for then but we shouldn’t hark back to it when the original version is tasking us to embrace the grief of even those we may feel don’t deserve it. That’s why it’s a great Christmas song.
My favourite Australian song. I love how it’s celebrated every 21 December here. ❤
I'm not sure why a Xmas song, written from the perspective of a man in prison resonates so strongly with us, but it does. Might have something to do with our convict roots, but I think it's just a great song. There's a brilliant version on here, filmed during lockdown with people lip syncing while holding up signs for the people they wouldn't be able to see. It makes me cry every time. And yes, 21st December is now Gravy Day. Feel free to join us this year. Own your tears... You've had a terrible week, and tears sometimes sneak up on you... Well, they sneak up on me at least.
Good choice Paul Kelly goes back over 40 years down here one of his big hits was "To Her Door " a great story line
Another lovely few minutes listening to a fantastic song with you Greg. Thanks. So glad I stumbled on your channel. Anyhoo, just wanted to let you know that this is actually a performance from Paul Kelly & the Stormwater Boys. I'm not sure if they're an actual band or if it was just the name the group of folks Paul assembled for an album gave themselves. 'Foggy Highway' from 2005. An absolute masterpiece. I think you'd love everything on it.
In Australia Christmas is secular now. It is celebrated as a family occasion. People who have not seen each other for months or years get together to celebrate the love that is the basis of families.
It is a time of intense nostalgia. The streets are alive with Christmas decorations despite the fact that the country is secular and only about 1% go to church. It is a time also of acute loneliness for some, the elderly the homeless or in this occasion for those in jail.
The suggestion in the song of realties coming down from Queensland shows the importance. Queensland is a huge distance from Melbourne. it is like someone from Poland vesting someone in Ireland.
The song was never a hit it was released as a bonus on a longer disk. But now it is a Australia classic. The 21st of December is now known as gravy day in Australia
@@tomfrombrunswick7571 Actually one in 5 Australians are church goers.
One of the best, you can’t go wrong with Paul Kelly, or this song.
This is one of those songs, that I not have any Paul Kelly albums or seen him live but after this song sneaks up on you over decades you just think of it as a classic.
Very much like Bob Dylan from USA with great song writing. Love the song Hurricane, by Bob Dylan, in the same way.
Nice to see your reaction Greg. You have a good heart
Yeah, gravy day is unofficial but i'm sure you can see why Aussies have embraced this song so much. It is genius to use such a topic to show the emotion and importance of family and tradition.
Good choice Greg, great reaction, great song.
Paul Kelly legend!
Tim Minchin- White Wine in the Sun is another unconventional Christmas song that Aussies absolutely love- may bring a tear to the eye also 😊
I'm so glad you commented. RUclips is being a real asshole and block a lot of your comments. God knows I couldn't make decisions for myself and need my nanny to do it for me.
@@deepcutsreactions7774 oh I know right?! It deleted something I wrote to you yesterday also. Grrr 😡 😂
Absolutely need to check out White Wine - quite different for Tim at the time but a classic.
@@mals4125 I’d love to see Greg go down the Tim rabbit hole. Of course it’s really dependent on whether Tim is his thing or not.. I really respect that Greg reacts to stuff he likes himself rather than pandering to the masses. If he likes something he delves into it more.
@@Dr_KAP Have you been making controversial comments? That's not like you.😁
This is another new one for us, Thank You!
Paul put out a Christmas Album 2021. My very favourite from it is Marlon Williams doing O Holy Night. Maybe you could do a Christmas week in December. A Paul Kelly Christmas Week
Fantastic storyteller ✨️ Isn't it unusually format of a tune, a letter to a family member, rather than verses and chorus? It just works, though.
PS, you're allowed your own tastes.... but do you have a list of artists you prefer not to cover?
Yes.
@@deepcutsreactions7774 Feel free to share - there are bands from the late 70’s that grate on me so much I have to abandon my shopping cart when they pop up on the supermarket playlist. But I guess that sharing the love and sharing the hate are different things. Still curious tho.
@@kathyconway5327 Disco sucks.
@ I grew up in a small town you’d call regional rust belt and UK hard rock was the go. I got tired of it before I was 16 and turned to the US or folky things locally. Our town was noted for booing the disco Australian Queen of pop off stage when she visited. I’m embarrassed by that now but back then I was just nerh. Marcia Hines her name was; she got picked up by an Aussie producer from Chicago when she was 16 yrs old to play in the musical Hair in Australia. Afterwards she played Mary Magdalene in JCS. Apart from being a wonderful person she was a really good artist, not so much laterly but she’s getting on. When she left Chicago in a taxi to the airport Fire & Rain topped the charts in the US and she made the promise to herself that if she ever became a recording artist - that would be the first song. Jimmy Barnes did a series of unplugged, just in his lounge room - duets on the basis of his guests first recording, gig or just first love of music. Check it out. It’s not disco. My issue was with supertramp, ELO, Queen etc. - like when UK prog rock got even worse. Can’t stand it, nor Elton John or that piano man guy. Also irritated a little bit by the Stones for being such massive grifters. But I have made my peace with a few selected disco tunes despite not being able to dance to them.
@@kathyconway5327 Marcia toured this year, so she is still going strong.
This version is great but I think the full band version, drums and guitars is slightly better.
If you’re looking for more bluegrass musicianship even if the genre may be in another shape then go to PK’s Channel here and under releases you’ll see albums by Uncle Bill as well as Stormwater Boys who played this song. Some of these musicians played in both, some even played in different genre albums he did but those are the 2 that feature those instruments. I don’t like the Stormwater version of Rally Round The Drum - best version by the author Archie Roach with Kelly and Paul Grabowsky but the one they did bluegrass sucked up all the beautiful soul out of it.
A song with no Chorus LOL
Love this song. There is a lyric change from the original regarding Meridiths’ old boyfriend, what was his name again? - didn’t get Nina Simone was originally Just a little bit too much cologne. Always disappointed by that change coz the original played up the big brother/little sister dynamic perfectly in an authentic way but dissing a teenagers lack of music appreciation is just bullying.