Kev Carmody started out mad, then he got even. Pillars of Society was the rough-hewn protest album all but unheard from Aboriginal Australia in 1987. Twenty years on, a famous fan named Paul Kelly assembled a stellar cast to pay tribute to a cherished peer's unique craft and insight on the Cannot Buy My Soul compilation. The pair wrote From Little Things, Big Things Grow together in '93. The classic ballad of the birth of the Aboriginal land rights movement was close to home for Carmody, the son of an Irish man and a Murri mother from the Queensland bush. High academic honours and industry accolades have accompanied a powerful discography, from Eulogy (For a Black Person) in 1990 to Mirrors in 2003.