“Middle of the Hill” by Josh Pyke

"Middle of the Hill" was the lead single from Feeding the Wolves, the third EP by Australian singer-songwriter Josh Pyke, released in 2005. Pyke wrote it alone, and by his own telling it barely took any writing at all: he was playing a riff, opened his mouth, and the words came out in a rush, the whole song done in roughly the time it takes to sing it. He'd just moved back into the family home, and he has said that family, and what it means to be part of one, was on his mind as it poured out.

It has since become a fan favourite, and at the APRA Music Awards of 2007 it was up for Most Performed Blues and Roots Work.

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