Published: September 15, 2018
Musicians including Paul Kelly and Briggs reflect on the Indigenous musician’s legacy
Kev Carmody’s debut album, Pillars of Society, recorded as a conceptual excoriation of the Australian bicentenary in 1988, is now 30 years old. On release, it was described by critic Bruce Elder as “the best album ever released by an Aboriginal musician and arguably the best protest album ever made in Australia”.
There have been many brilliant records made by Aboriginal musicians since, but, with the exception of AB Original, none of them has produced such a sustained polemic, and only Archie Roach rivals him for poetic eloquence.
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