You Don’t Know Lonely, a gripping collection of 12 evocative stories in song from the masters of the form, Tex, Don and Charlie.  More than a decade has passed since the trio’s last album, 2005’s All Is Forgiven and their spectacular 1993 debut Sad But True, itself widely regarded as one of the great Australian albums. 

Pre-order album HERE.

Set for release on June 30, the album ushers in a long-awaited Tex, Don and Charlie national tour. The tour will be the band’s first in twelve years, kicking off at the end of August and running all through September. Covering a vast expanse, the tour takes in capital cities Sydney, Melbourne, Canberra, Adelaide, Brisbane, Perth and Darwin as well as regional towns  Meeniyan, Bendigo, Newcastle, Bellingen, Bangalow, Cairns and Bunbury. Fans can expect the new songs in all their live glory, augmented by favourites from Sad But True and All Is Forgiven.
 
Tickets for all shows go on sale 9am Tuesday, June 6 and every ticket sold for a limited time, until Friday, June 23, includes a free download code for the new song, A Man In Conflict With Nature.

 
The song Here’s As Good As Anywhere is an older, wiser, more calibrated view of the world that’s on offer, inspiring the album’s title: “You don’t know lonely/Till you’ve looked back down the road/From one more town/Knowing she’s no longer there/And here’s as good as anywhere.”

“It’s just a little movie about hitch-hiking into a town, and there’s clearly a regretted girl, which we all have; and in this case, there’s no going back,” Don Walker says.
For Charlie, the process of making a record with this trio has a consistency, the decade-long break between each one meaning that “we don’t do this like we do other things; when we come around to doing this we have a particular focus on the sound of Tex, Don and Charlie, on the sensation of it”.  As he says, it’s obvious when a song “fits into the flowing robes of Tex, Don and Charlie”.