Charlie Owen

If you're a casual consumer of music then bands like Beasts of Bourbon or The Cruel Sea would come to mind upon mention of his name.

If you're a bit more of a diehard then I could start mentioning the likes of his solo work, The Dark Horses, The Fat Rubber Band, The Tennessee Four, The Band of Gold, The Butcher Shop, The Ape, The Bush Oysters, The James Baker Experience, Minced Meat, Salamander Jim, The Dum Dums, Thug and collaborations like TNT with Tim Rogers and the wonderful Tex, Don and Charlie with Don Walker and Charlie Owen.

Good gravy, I think I'm going cross-eyed just mentioning them all.

And you know what? That's not even all of them.

You've had, more bands that i've had hot dinners but i guess for yourself if you're ever looking back on the the musical career is there a moment or a record that you look back on and say you know that's what i'm i'm pretty proud of that one specifically like i guess for you is is there a sergeant peppers of the tex perkins uber uh

um No, there's no one work that is flawless.

But I think if I had to choose one, maybe my second solo album, Dark Horses, which came out in 2000, which was kind of the beginning of – I mean, that album was called Dark Horses, but the band that played on it became known as the Dark Horses, and that began that period, mainly of working with Murray Patterson as a songwriter and Charlie Owen and Joel Silvershue were sort of the core collaborators on that record and the preceding Dark Horses.

But, yeah, I think that one, if I had to choose, Dark Horses.

Well, I'm putting that off until episode 197, which will be next month.

The reason is, about a week and a half ago, I got an email saying, would you like to speak to Don Walker of the Suave Fucks, of Cold Chisel, of Text Don and Charlie? And my response was, absolutely, because...

You know, it's Don Walker.

It's his second time on this show.

I've only ever seen it once.

It was produced by Clint Eastwood.

I think actually Bird was produced by Clint Eastwood, his biopic about Charlie Parker.

But I'd be surprised if Clint Eastwood wasn't a fan of this one.