text: Top 20 albums include Gossip , Under the Sun , Comedy , Songs from the South ( 1997 compilation , his best charting album ) , ... Nothing but a Dream and Stolen Apples .
simplified: He has also had success with his albums with Top 20 hits on the National charts for Gossip , Under The Sun and So Much Water So Close To Home from the 1980s ; Comedy , Wanted Man , Songs from the South : Paul Kelly 's Greatest Hits and Words and Music from the 1990s ; and Nothing But A Dream , Ways & Means and Stolen Apples from the 2000s . The compilation album Songs from the South got to Number 2 in 1997 .