Pete Murray's keening love song "So Beautiful" was certified the most-performed Australian work of 2005, but the story that stuck about the Blundstone-booted Brisbane songwriter concerned the sporting career he left behind. Such was the every-bloke aura that emanated from his chiselled and tousled features on Feeler, his unembellished roots-rock breakthrough album. It sold half a million and set Murray up in the coastal musos' paradise of Byron Bay, which blew like a sea breeze through two more No. 1 albums and the laid-back collaboration Blue Sky Blue: The Byron Sessions, which featured a legion of sandy-footed drop-ins from Powderfinger, the Living End and elsewhere.