Track Listing

1. Passenger
2. Bringin' Daddy Home
3. Home Tonight
4. Rollin' On
5. Two Feathers
6. Suburban Soldier
7. Work
8. Little One
9. No Love In This War
10. Take Me Away
11. Dear Satan
12. Wrong Side Of The Tracks
13. Darlin' Man

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #194994 in Music
• Released on: 2008-07-07
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: .22 pounds

Customer Reviews

Australia's Best Kept Secret
Two Feathers is the 4th album by Rory Ellis and is probably his most complete work so far in a career spanning a decade. It's an album of well written tunes about his childhood, his memories and how he sees the world we live in. Rory's genre nestles in the urban folk/blues bracket with a deep voice that is such a distinctive and powerful instrument in itself. A talented guitarist, his songs are meloncholy, upbeat, catchy and thought provoking.

'Two Feathers' is almost heartbreaking as it deals with a place we all went to as children to be free and let our imaginations run wild. Rory went to an old tin shack where "with two feathers in my fingers, I thought that I could fly" I mean, who has never done that or something similar as in jump off a roof with an umbrella!
'Wrong Side Of The Tracks' is my favourite off this collection, an observation that young teenagers are so fragile and close to trouble if they take the wrong track, "hey kid don't go too fast, your little heart is like a peice of glass, waiting to be broken"
'Little One' is a song for his daughter that he never sees for most of the year, written in a loft 13,000 miles away from home with the heart warming lyric " I'd fly from this window to be with you, and i'd break every bone in this body to show you I can"
'No Love In This War' asks the question we all ask ourselves when our troops go off to fight in foriegn countries like Iraq and Afghanistan. Why? Why? Why? " why don't you run on home, the sun is setting in your home town and your children cry all alone"

The 3 albums before this one are also excellent, 'Ride' (2000), 'The Rushes' (2003) and 'Road Of The Braver Man' (2005) are all available at his gigs and go for various prices on this site.

Rory Ellis to me writes great songs, sings them with emotion and tells his audience exactly why he wrote them. I've seen him 3 times now, he always gives a great performance regardless of how many people turn up. His latest tour lasts until October 2009 so if you see his name advertised in your local paper or pub, go and check him out, you will not be disappointed.