Tex Perkins, Don Walker & Charlie Owen "Sad But True" 1993 + "What I Done To Her" EP - 1994

Although released in November 1993, the album didn't reach the charts until the end of January 1994. Perkins was nominated for Best Male Artist at the 1994 Aria Awards for his contributions to the album......Reviewed at the time of release, Chris Whiting said it, "has a place & feel which reminds you of the Paris Texas album. It's relaxed but not sloppy, sparse but precise, the piano tinkling along with an acoustic guitar. Then the vocals wash in, with the steel guitar creeping in to swell out the mood. It captures the mood of wearied men sitting around in bars ruminating through cigarette coughs on lost lives & lost loves."
The Age described it as, "inhabiting a murky bayou somewhere between country, boogie and roots." The Canberra Times said, "this CD just oozes bitterness. The Walker-penned songs are not so depressing, but they are incisive and Owen's instrumental, "Dead Dog Boogie", is a perfect foil to all the deep and meaningfuls. Let's hope these three get together again." The Sydney Morning Herald called it, "a genuine beauty, a late-night collection of downbeat and often wittily mordant country ballads. The songs plaintively bring to life a low-life world of late-night bars, transvestites, girls with tattoos and lives gone wrong."
The book 100 Best Australian Albums said, "The genre, nominally, was country blues, with stories plucked from the night or passed along on the back verandah, as arid percussion, sighing pedal steel guitar and lyrical piano parts wended their way through the narratives. Aside from the rambunctious, psychedelic, country fair instrumental "Dead Dog Boogie", the tunes were long exhalations.trax:
01 Redheads, Gold Cards & Long Black Limousines 02 Postcard From Elvis 03 Fake That Emotion 04 The Girl With the Bluebird 05 What I Done to Her 06 Sitting in a Bar 07 Dead Dog Boogie 08 Louise 09 Fateful Day 10 Danielle 11 Still the Same 12 Barlow and Chambers 13 I Must Be Getting Soft
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"What I Done To Her" EP - 1994Tex, Don and Charlie is an Australian group formed by Tex Perkins, Don Walker from Cold Chisel and guitarist Charlie Owen. Their first album Sad But True was released in 1993. Their distinctively Australian country-blues cocktail was reflected in their live album of '95, Monday Morning Coming Down. In March 2005, Tex, Don and Charlie released their second studio album All is Forgiven and a third, You Don't Know Lonely in 2017. All four albums have charted in the ARIA top 100. - wikitrax:
01 What I Done To Her 02 Louise 03 Still The Same 04 Louie, Louie
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