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Black & White Town is the sixth studio album by Australian artist Perry Keyes, released in November 2023.

Details
Many of the songs for the album were older. The title track had been played live "for the best part of thirty-odd years" and most were decades old. Keyes had been recording another album when he was rewarded a grant from the Australia Council to record an album with songs set in Waterloo. Long time guitarist, Ed Kairouz, had encouraged Keyes to use previously unrecorded songs going back to his days in the Stolen Holdens.

The song "Last Night in Redfern Park" had been written was Keyes was 17. He said that up until that point he has been writing songs that were, "derivative, generic stuff trying to sound like the Ramones or trying to sound like bloody Lou Reed". With lyrics from things he observed in a bus trip though Sydney, it was the first time he realised he wanted to write about the place he grew up.

Track listing
All songs written by Perry Keyes.


 * 1) "Last Night in Redfern Park"
 * 2) "Elevator Down"
 * 3) "Inner-City Now"
 * 4) "Walking At Midnight Through The Lot"
 * 5) "Cracker Night"
 * 6) "Streets of a Black & White Town"
 * 7) "Down On My Street"
 * 8) "Man With The Coppertone Tan"
 * 9) "Billy Boy"
 * 10) "Abandoned Car Problems"

Personnel

 * Perry Keyes – Acoustic guitar & vocals
 * Edmond Kairouz - Electric guitar right channel
 * Matt Galvin - Electric guitar left channel
 * John Gauci - Piano, Hammond & Wurlitzer
 * Grant Shanahan - Bass, percussion & vocals
 * Lloyd Gyi - Drums