BRETT WOOD - TUFF WAY - ACOUSTIC

Tough Way: Brett Wood Live on A Very Melbourne Podcast

Originally published on A Very Melbourne Podcast with Russell Robertson | May 2024

In May 2024, Brett Wood dropped into the studio at A Very Melbourne Podcast for an in-studio acoustic session with hosts Robbo and Davo. The session produced three separate performance recordings, all published the same day. Tough Way is one of them, a three-minute-forty-nine-second live recording that sits firmly in the blues tradition Wood has been drawing from since he first picked up a guitar as a teenager.

A Very Melbourne Podcast documents Melbourne musicians in conversation and in performance. Wood's session with Robbo and Davo is a straight capture: a guitarist, an acoustic instrument, and the kind of direct and unhurried playing that his music is built on.

The three videos from the session, Tough Way, If You Please, and Finders Keeper, are available on A Very Melbourne Podcast's YouTube channel and offer a compact and unmediated portrait of Wood's acoustic playing in the period before his debut single era began.

Watch Tough Way on YouTube.

Brett Wood's debut album is coming in 2026. Singles Real Piece of Work and Eyes are out now on all platforms. Follow Brett at brettwood.com and @brettwoodmusic.

Prepared by 4★ Agency