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"His Texness admits it: 'Ladies and gentlemen, I'm crook,' but he adds a reasonable proviso, 'but luckily this is music that suits being crook.'"
The singer soldiered on.
"At times the music was dark and brooding; Perkins and Walker painting livid lyrical pictures of revenge, drinking and heartbreak."
"It's not often that Perkins tours with fellow luminaries Don Walker and Charlie Owen, but when he does, it's all but guaranteed to be special."
"The punters scramble for their cameras to catch this meteoric performance as it unfolds before their very eyes."
"When 'Sitting In A Bar' lead the encore, next to the recent 'Plan B', even the weary weeknight warriors couldn't deny the continued quality of these three and their chemistry."
"It's not really Secret Men's Business, but rather Secret Tex, Don & Charlie business. There's just a certain flavour that happens when the three of us get together."
"Trademark zingers occasionally threaten to drag you from the husky darkness."
After 12 years
"Crowd-friendly scheduling makes it easy to cram in back-to-back sets, which is good news, since there's very little dead weight on the bill."