"Go Ahead, Celebrate" was written in late 2019. My band was riding high, having won the Music Victoria Award for best Country Album, we were being invited to play some amazing festivals and shows, and were preparing to record the new album. We were feeling good, and after the highs and lows of the previous three albums, this song was about taking stock of what you have and celebrating the moment.
The song and the new album will be the third album to be produced by myself and long time guitarist Andrew Pollock, and I feel the song sentiment still rings true. Perhaps even more so today in the face of what appears to be a completely changed landscape for myself and much of society as whole. Now, more than ever, I feel we need to celebrate the little things, the moments together, the wins.
"Like a jewel in a crown, young girl shine like midday sun”.
lyrics
Go Ahead, Celebrate
Little girl Lulu Cornes in the pouring rain
She never thought twice about love, the money or the pain
Won’t find a pretty smile like hers on no magazine
Roll the dice twice on love and she’ll do it all again
That’s twice I had to mend
Hey go ahead celebrate, celebrate like we used to
Hey go ahead celebrate, celebrate
Kept it to herself but Loretta dreams of the ocean
Like a jewel in a crown young girl shine like midday sun
So the scene was a beautiful thing on a moonstruck boat
And she wondered if the silence stretched on all the way back home
We’ve all got wounds to heal
Hey go ahead celebrate, celebrate like we used to
Hey go ahead celebrate, celebrate
I ain’t gonna tell you something more
We’ve all got wounds to heal
credits
from Go Ahead, Celebrate,
track released September 20, 2021
Songs and lyrics by Matt Joe Gow
Produced and arranged by Andrew Pollock and Matt Joe Gow
Recorded, mixed and mastered by Andrew Pollock, Matt Joe Gow and Chris Elliott at The Woodshed, Melbourne.
Engineered by Andrew Pollock and Chris Elliott
Musicians: Matt Joe Gow, Andrew Pollock, Daniel Brates, Katya Harrop, Cam Grindrod
Photography: Em Jensen
Art Direction: Diana Kozhiyeva
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The attention to detail in the compositions. Each title represents in itself, an overall dominance and mastery of his style of songwriting. The music displayed is of the most sincere and delicate nature, from the ground upwards. billac
supported by 4 fans who also own “Go Ahead, Celebrate”
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