How to Make Gravy is a 4-monitor EP by Australian singer-songwriter Paul Kelly and was initially launched on A November 1996 on White Label Records in Australia. The title monitor was written by Kelly and earned him a ‘Song of the Year’ nomination on the 1998 Australasian Performing Rights Association (APRA) Music Awards. It tells the story of a newly imprisoned man writing a letter to his brother, by which the prisoner laments that he might be lacking the household’s Christmas celebrations. The similar character seems in Kelly’s earlier songs, “To Her Door” (1987) and “Love Never Runs on Time” (1994). The gravy recipe is real – Kelly learnt it from his first father-in-regulation. It was coated by James Reyne on the 2003 tribute album, Stories of Me: A Songwriter’s Tribute to Paul Kelly and on Reyne’s 2005 acoustic album …And the Horse You Rode in On. It has additionally been coated by David Miles, Luca Brasi, From Nowhere, Semicolon, Ghostwriters, Karl Broadie and Lawrence Agar. In September 2010, Kelly titled his memoirs, How to Make Gravy. On 29 September 2012 Kelly carried out “How to Make Gravy” and “Leaps and Bounds” on the 2012 AFL Grand Final.
