The Ellis Collective's lyrics & chords

If ‘Bloke Folk’ were a genre, The Ellis Collective would be it. Traditional acoustic sensibilities for the modern urban soul - simple and gritty tales of an Aussie male, hiding a broken heart behind big talk, a stubbie and smoke... At first listen, your musical compass might point in the vague direction of John Schumann, Paul Kelly or Tim Rogers, but if you simply followed the trail of breakfast beers, black coffee, cigarettes, broken teeth and busted dreams, confessionals, apologies, simple tunes and soft harmonies -that's the true north...read more