There’s few songwriters more iconically Australian than Paul Kelly. With a career that spans more than four decades, Kelly has written and performed some of the most enduring and quintessentially Australian songs in the canon of homegrown music.

That’s why it’s always an ambitious choice to cover the man. That decision becomes all the more ambitious when you decide to take on one of his most cherished tunes. But Tasmanian punk outfit Luca Brasi have never shied away from a challenge.

They recently entered the triple j Like A Version studios and laid down an absolutely breathtaking cover of ‘How to Make Gravy, Kelly’s iconic Christmas letter from a brother spending the holiday season in prison off his 1996 EP of the same name.

As we’ve previously noted, this year’s Like A Version series has gotten off to an interesting start – we’ve seen a heart-wrenching David Bowie cover, an ambitious mash-up from this year’s Hottest 100 winners, a deeply divisive cover of a huge hit from 2015, and a cover that showed us what Like A Version is meant to be.

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