In The Key of Night
If you've ever lived and loved the nightlife, chances are, at some stage during your carousing, cruising, boozing and late night losing, you'd have come across Peter Head.
His self penned sublime songs and lyrics tell tales tall and true about Australia's crooks, hookers, pimps and thieves. Head's nightime netherworld of ivory ticking in smoke filled rooms, singing wayward songs about wayward people, is unique in Australia, our very own musical journeyman; always outside the crap and corruption of the music industry, always laying down a magical rolling chord, a riff, a poignant lyric, a primal honed - frayed at the edges as it is, rasping, growling, crackling and about as soulful as it gets.
Try listening to his self penned song" I Don't Believe", for instance, without shedding a tear - or if you think you're real tough - without almost shedding a tear. Head is a bona fide musical gem, a fixture in the late night bars of Sydney since 1980, his presence sighted in New York's after hours piano bars more than a decade ago.
A magnet to discerning music lovers, a sanctuary to others, Peter Head is the one who showed Bon Scott how to write and structure songs and play guitar and he's since provided backing, musical arrangements, and supportive morale to hundreds of the country's finest singers and musicians - far too many to mention here.
Head's intepretations of songs from a few of his heroes like Tom Waits, Randy Newman and Ray Charles are not only commendable, but demonstrate the uniqueness of his voice and his very original phrasing. Not to mention his world class piano playing. A master.
So slip into relax mode, friend, take a drag and pour a stiff one, lay back and soak up one of Australia's very real musical greats.
TRK TIME PRICE PLAY DEMO . . $12.00AU
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Eddie Arnold4.19 $0.99AU 12 3.17 $0.99AU
CD Audio, Jewel Case with 4 page booklet, 42'07"
Peter Head - Yamaha Grand, Laffarge Upright, Vocals.
Liner notes by Vince Lovegrove; artwork by Loene Carmen; photography by Derby Chang.
HEAD OFFICE RECORDS
83 Lord Street, Newtown, NSW 2042 Australia
Ph: +612 9557 9539
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EMAIL : Head Office Records
