Paul Kelly's Christmas Train (2LP)

Paul Kelly’s first Christmas album is an extraordinary 22-song double collection that travels across the centuries, from a Latin hymn to well-known carols, from a traditional Irish folk ballad to new Kelly music written for Christmas poems.

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The album is delivered by Kelly and his band with a big cast of Christmas helpers including vocalists Vika and Linda Bull, Marlon Williams, Kasey Chambers, Alice Keath, Emily Lubitz, Lior and Emma Donovan, with contributions from the Kelly clan. The writer, radio and TV presenter Waleed Aly also makes an appearance, reading verses from The Qur’an that tell the story of Mary and Jesus.

Kelly says: “I’ve chosen songs I love, which led me often to wander off the well-worn path, then chosen singers I thought best suited to them.”

TRACK LIST

SIDE A
1. Nativity - Paul Kelly
2. Silent Night - Paul Kelly, Alice Keath & Sime Nugent
3. Swing Around The Sun - Paul Kelly
4. Christmas - Paul Kelly
5. Christmas (Baby, Please Come Home) - Linda Bull & Paul Kelly
6. Little Drummer Boy - Paul Kelly

SIDE B
7. Arthur McBride - Paul Kelly
8. The Virgin Mary Had One Son - Emma Donovan & Paul Kelly
9. Tapu te Pō (O Holy Night) - Marlon Williams, The Dhungala Children's Choir & Paul Kelly
10. Shalom Aleichem - Lior, Alice Keath, Emily Lubitz & Paul Kelly
11. The Oxen - Paul Kelly

SIDE C
12. The Friendly Beasts - Paul Kelly, Kasey Chambers & Dan Kelly
13. Three Drovers - Paul Kelly, Alice Keath & Sime Nugent
14. Christmas Must Be Tonight - Paul Kelly
15. Surah Maryam - Waleed Aly & Paul Kelly
16. Coventry Carol - Kate Miller-Heidke, Jess Hitchcock, Alice Keath, Marlon Williams & Paul Kelly
17. In The Hot Sun Of A Christmas Day - Paul Kelly

SIDE D
18. How To Make Gravy - Paul Kelly
19. Christmas Train - Vika Bull & Paul Kelly
20. Come Thou Fount Of Every Blessing - Paul Kelly
21. Intonent Hodie - Alice Keath & Paul Kelly
22. What Are You Doing New Year's Eve? - Alma Zygier & Paul Kelly