JOHN KENNEDY Raining Treasure (Australian Indie Gold Covers Vol.1) (Foghorn/MGM) Having in some ways recreated or reimagined his own travels through the indie pop world of the 1980s and ‘90s on his 2017 album, JFK And The Midlife Crisis (reviewed here), Brisbane-raised, Sydney-lived John Kennedy dips back into the past – but this time a real past. He and his long-running band of “experienced” gentlemen, his ’68 Comeback Special (Peter Timmerman on drums, Phil Hall on bass, Mu

JOHN KENNEDY Second Best (Foghorn/MGM) Well of course John Kennedy would call the second set of his career songs collections “second best”. If he’d called it something like “the other bits”, “warmed up leftovers” or “oh no, not me again”, none of us would have been surprised. This way he gets a play on words, a dig at himself, and a reminder he’s been around long enough to warrant at least two sets of favourite songs before we have stopped laughing: result. If self-deprecatio

JOHN KENNEDY JFK and the Midlife Crisis (Popboomerang) A concept album about a musician’s travails and travels through a life lived widely if not necessarily wisely? Well, this wasn’t made for 20-year-olds. And that’s fine; not everything has to be to be considered youth topical or “relevant”. I have it on very good authority that people in their 40s and 50s and - good heavens - older, still have an interest in (A) music, (B) the world, and (C) people using A to discuss/expla