Album Review: Tex, Don & Charlie - You Don't Know Lonely

It's sometimes hard to work out whether or not to take Tex Perkins seriously.

Here, the Aussie pub-rock demigod's third round of delicately poured bluesy shots with guitarist Charlie Owen and Cold Chisel's Don Walker goes down quick and relatively smooth. His trademark zingers occasionally threaten to drag you from the husky darkness, like when he lisps "personality" in the grieving I Used To Be or the priceless Johnny Cash-in A Man In Conflict With Nature. You Don't Know Lonely is the bedraggled soul at the end of the bar neither exciting nor offending anyone.