Words And Music is an album recorded by Paul Kelly

Paul Kelly (musician)

Paul Maurice Kelly is an Australian rock music singer-songwriter, guitarist, and harmonica player. He has performed solo, and has led numerous groups, including the Dots, the Coloured Girls, and the Messengers. He has worked with other artists and groups, including associated projects Professor...

 and originally released in 1998. It was released on Mushroom Records

Mushroom Records

Mushroom Records is an Australian recoJrd company formed by Michael Gudinski and Ray Evans in Melbourne in 1972. After its sale in 1998, it merged into Festival Mushroom Records. From 2005 to 2009, it is one of the record labels operated by Warner Bros...

 in Australia and Vanguard Records

Vanguard Records

Vanguard Records is a record label set up in 1950 by brothers Maynard and Seymour Solomon in New York. It started as a classical label, but is perhaps best known for its catalogue of recordings by a number of pivotal folk and blues artists from the 1960s; the Bach Guild was a subsidiary...

 in the United States. The US release include one additional track, "How to Make Gravy", which was released as a separate Extended Play

Extended play

An EP is a musical recording which contains more music than a single, but is too short to qualify as a full album or LP. The term EP originally referred only to specific types of vinyl records other than 78 rpm standard play records and LP records, but it is now applied to mid-length Compact...

 prior to the release of Words and Music in Australia.

The album peaked at #17 on the ARIA albums chart and #44 on the NZ album charts, and was certified gold. The album included three singles that did not reach the Top 40 singles chart.

Kelly was nominated and won an ARIA Award in the category 'Best Male Artist' for Words and Music in 1998.

Track listing

1. "Little Kings" - 5:17
2. "I'll Be Your Lover" - 4:12
3. "Nothing On My Mind" - 4:55
4. "Words and Music" - 4:40
5. "Gutless Wonder" - 4:56
6. "Tease Me" - 4:08
7. "I'd Rather Go Blind" - 3:12
8. "She Answers the Sun (Lazy Bones)" (with Rebecca Barnard
   Rebecca's Empire
   Rebecca's Empire were an indie pop-rock band from Melbourne, Australia. They released two full-length albums and two EPs in a six-year career lasting from 1994 to 2000.-History:...
   
   ) - 5:24
9. "Beat of Your Heart" - 5:48
10. "It Started with a Kiss" - 4:15
11. "Glory Be to God" - 4:07
12. "Saturday Night and Sunday Morning" - 4:06
13. "Charlie Owen's Slide Guitar" - 3:47
14. "Melting" (with Monique Brumby
    Monique Brumby
    Monique Brumby is an Australian Indie pop/rock singer-songwriter, guitarist and producer. Her debut single, "Fool for You", peaked into the top 40 in the Australian Recording Industry Association ARIA Singles Charts, and provided an ARIA Award for 'Best New Talent' in 1996...
    
    ) - 5:12

Personnel

• Rebecca Barnard
  Rebecca Barnard
  Rebecca Barnard is a Melbourne-based Australian singer, songwriter and musician. She was the lead singer of Rebecca's Empire from 1994 to 2000, and has forged a solo career since her debut album was released in 2006....
  
   - vocals ("She Answers the Sun", "Beat of your Heart")
• John Barrett - saxophone ("Gutless Wonder")
• Monique Brumby
  Monique Brumby
  Monique Brumby is an Australian Indie pop/rock singer-songwriter, guitarist and producer. Her debut single, "Fool for You", peaked into the top 40 in the Australian Recording Industry Association ARIA Singles Charts, and provided an ARIA Award for 'Best New Talent' in 1996...
  
   - vocals ("Melting")
• Renee Geyer
  Renée Geyer
  Renée Rebecca Geyer is an Australian singer who has long been regarded as one of the finest exponents of jazz, soul and R&B idioms. She had commercial success as a solo artist in Australia, with "It's a Man's Man's World", "Heading in the Right Direction" and "Stares and Whispers" in the 1970s and...
  
   - vocals ("Beat of your Heart")
• Steve Hadley - bass
• Spencer P. Jones - guitar
• Paul Kelly - guitar, vocals
• Bruce Haymes - keyboards
• Laurence Maddy - horns ("Words and Music")
• Peter Luscombe - drums
• Shane O'Mara - guitar
• Russell Smith - horns ("Words and Music")

Credits

• Producer - Paul Kelly
• Producer - Mark Opitz
  Mark Opitz
  Mark Opitz, started his career with ABC TV in Sydney in the 1970’s and has since gone on to work with many of the great Australian musicians that have graced both the Australian and international music charts for the past 25 years....
  
  (tracks: 6, 10, 14)
• Producer - Simon Polinski (track: 7)
• Engineer - Chris Dickie (tracks: 6, 10, 14)
• Engineer - Laurence Maddy (tracks: 1 to 5, 8, 9, 11 to 13)
• Assistant Engineer - Charlie Macneil (tracks 6, 10, 14)