Description
In between the illicit drag racing thrill of his Cold Chisel rocker "Yakuza Girls" and the baleful piano blues of "At The Piccolo Bar", chances are you know some of the people Don Walker means. Whatever happiness they find is coloured by the heat haze and medicinal grog and sheer emptiness that seeps through his songs; songs that draw their blood and guts from this wide brown land as vividly as any singer ever has. Most of the songs are set in regional towns - maybe the race-track end of things - and the spaces between. They're about good people, often with bad troubles and long, scarred memories that wander and fester between former wives and dead mates and the inevitable larger questions that settle in their wake.