Tribute to Kev Carmody
Cannot Buy My Soul
Kev Carmody is an Indigenous songwriter, who grew up in Queensland; his best known song is about the Gurinji people’s land rights battle ‘From Little Things Big Things Grow’.
Paul Kelly has pulled together a group of Australian musicians for this tribute to Carmody. It features Dan and Paul Kelly, The Waifs, Bernard Fanning, John Butler Trio, The Drones, Archie Roach, Sara Storer, Dan Sultan and Scott Wilson, Tex Perkins, Clare Bowditch, The Herd, Steve Kilbey, The Pigrim Brothers, Augie March, Missy Higgins, Troy Cassar-Daley and The Last Kinection.
Indigenous hip hop group The Herd remakes ‘Comrade Jesus Christ and The Young Dancer is Dead’ while staying true to the spirit of the original. John Butler does a slide version of ‘Thou Shalt Not Steal’, a song about the theft of Aboriginal lands. The haunting ‘Darkside’ is covered by Tex Perkins, who speaks rather than sings. Not surprisingly, Archie Roach gives intensity to “Cannot Buy My Soul” and Troy Cassar-Daley’s version of ‘On the Wire’ is magnificent.
There is a second disc has the original versions of the same songs.
Highly recommended
Released: 2007
