There's glitter on earth but it's all praise to the one above for Annie And The Caldwells. Photo by Annie Forrest. WE DON’T DO GOSPEL much around here, what with Australia being a fairly secular place of little public singing, with a pretty white history only now realising not every sacred moment has to come with a dull hymn or a true blue bush ballad. Bless. And it took us to the brink of the 21 st  century to get a proper handle on funk, a bit longer if you lived outside Me

WHILE SHE'S BEEN in Nashville for some 20 years now, a songwriter of real talent for dozens of stars who also happens to have two superb albums of her own, Brandy Clark is from a small town in Washington state, Morton: population in 2017 of 1,159. No, that number is not missing another digit: one thousand, one hundred and fifty nine. It’s exactly the kind of place – with all the contradictions and myths and pleasures and horrors of the tiny, tidy places away from the citie