Perry Keyes
Discography

All songs written by Perry Keyes

Produced by Grant Shanahan

Recorded a Leisure Suit Studios, Spencer, NSW
Engineered by Grant Shanahan & Jon Palmer

Mixed by Michael Carpenter at Love Hz Studios, Sydney

Mastered by William Bowden

Boxing Day Recorded at Hordern St. Newtown, Sydney
Engineered & mixed by Jon Palmer

Perry Keyes - Vocals & Guitar
John Gauci - Keyboards
Matt Galvin - Guitar
Lloyd G - Drums  & Percussion
Grant Shanahan - Bass & Vocals / Toy organ on 6
Bek-Jean Stewart - Vocals & Percussion
Peter Kelly - Coronet & Trumpet

Additional Players: Ed Kairouz, Bernie Hayes, Steve Broughton, Mark Na-Na, Charlie Lee, Tim Freedman, Phil Slater, Fergus Barker & Michael Carpenter

Laughing Outlaw Records (cat.no.LORCD-118)

Lyrics here 

Sydney Morning Herald 13/3/10
"...listen, really listen to the songs, listen to the stories and you begin to see why Keyes is a proper songwriter who isn't just taking notice of what's happening around him but sees it for more than it appears. And then he makes you care. In part because there's a reason those musical "cliches" have held on; when they're done well, in their service of a good storyteller; they can be killers " - BZ  - read full review here

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All songs written by Perry Keyes

Recorded by Grant Shanahan at Leisure Suit Studios, Spencer

Track 1 recorded by Michael Carpenter at Love Hz Studios, Sydney

All additional recordings at Love Hz

Mixed by Michael Carpenter at Love Hz Sydney

Mastered by Rick O'Neil at Turtlerock Studios, Sydney

Perry Keyes - lead vocals, guitars
Bek-Jean Stewart - drums, vocals, percussion
Edmond Kairouz - guitars,  vocals
Earl Pinkerton - bass
John Gauci - piano, hammond organ

Additional playing by Grant Shanahan & Michael Carpenter

Laughing Outlaw Records (cat.no.LORCD-108)

The Age 20/9/07
"Like Steve Earle, Perry Keyes' world-weary songs stand out as a beacon of truth in a sea of deceit" - Patrick Donovan

Sydney Morning Herald 8/10/07
"when his husky, conversational voice compares the feel of the day John Sattler broke his jaw to "Young Labor [sitting] stoned in a terraced house with the Sydney Swans on pay TV", you want to buy him a beer and ask him to keep talking" - Bernard Zuel

Whisperin and Hollerin' UK - 10/10 stars!!! - 
"he deserves to be mentioned in the same exalted breath as the likes of Strummer, Costello and Springsteen" - Tim Peacock 

All songs written by Perry Keyes

Recorded by Grant Shanahan at Leisure Suit Studios, Sydney

All tracks mixed by Michael Carpenter at Love Hz Sydney

Mastered by Rick O'Neil at Turtlerock

Perry Keyes - lead vocals, guitars
Bek-Jean Stewart - drums, vocals, percussion
Edmond Kairouz - guitars, accordion, vocals
Phil Blatch - bass, vocals

Additional playing by Grant Shanahan & Michael Carpenter

also

Warren Bright - keyboards
Earl Pinkerton - bass
Michael Cupic - keyboards

Disc 1

1. Sweaty Sneakers
2. 2nd Time I Saw You
3. Beer and Cigarettes MP3
4. Some Aches
5. Wide Streets
6. Service City
7. Vicious Left Hook
8. Growin' Up In The Dark Is Wrong
9. NYE

Disc 2

Laughing Outlaw Records (cat.no.LORCD-093)

Quotes - Laughing Outlaw boss Stuart Coupe, Oz music mogul Michael Gudinski and Tim Freedman (The Whitlams) are among those reportedly applauding this double CD debut. Whether this singing taxi driver merits such plaudits is moot; that he is a songwriter of the highest promise there is no doubt. 3 stars. - Tony Hillier - The Weekend Australian

Sydney taxi driver Perry Keyes lives in the musical house built by the likes of John Prine, Bruce Springsteen, Elvis Costello and the young Richard Clapton - and replicated by scores of their acolytes, such as Any Trouble, Ryan Adams, the early Jo Jo Zep and the Falcons, John Dowler of the Zimmermen and fellow Sydneysider, Bernie Hayes. - Sydney Morning Herald

"Like Steve Earle, his world-wearing songs stand out as a beacon of truth in a sea of deceit" -  Patrick Donovon, The Age

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