The Best of Tex Perkins

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The Best of Tex Perkins: Songs From My Black Cattle Dog
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Greatest hits album by
Tex Perkins
ReleasedAugust 2009
Length80:06
LabelUniversal Music Australia
Tex Perkins chronology
Beautiful Kate
(2009) 		The Best of Tex Perkins: Songs From My Black Cattle Dog
(2009) 		Tex Perkins & The Dark Horses
(2011)

The Best of Tex Perkins: Songs from My Black Cattle Dog is a greatest hits album by Australian singer-songwriter Tex Perkins. The album includes solo tracks as well as The Cruel Sea and Tex, Don and Charlie tracks and was released in August 2009. The album was supported by a national tour.[1]

The title Songs from My Black Cattle Dog is a creative blunder when someone misheard Tex saying songs from "my back catalogue".[2]

Critical reception[]

Lyn Harder from The Dwarf said "Have you been thinking of getting a Tex Perkins record but not sure which one to get? Well, this album is for you." adding "This is Tex revealing certain aspects of his life as well as certain philosophical grabs of his life. Tex did choose the songs for this best of compilation and he says they are self analytical and rather honest in lyric content."[2]

Iain Shedden from The Australian said "The best-of collection ... focuses largely on his balladeering solo output. It represents a large and impressive body of work that has earned plenty of plaudits, albeit without troubling the charts."[3]

Track listing[]

No.TitleWriter(s)AlbumLength
1."What I Done to Her" (Tex, Don and Charlie)
Sad But True4:22
2."I Know You Know I Know"
  • Perkins
Dark Horses4:31
3."Whenever It Snows" (Tex, Don & Charlie)
All Is Forgiven4:41
4."She Speaks a Different Language"
  • Perkins
Dark Horses4:45
5."Half of Nothing" (with Tim Rogers [as TnT]) My Better Half4:46
6."Changelings" (with Dark Horses)
  • Perkins
  • Patterson
  • Owen
Sweet Nothing4:30
7."Ice in the Sun"
  • Perkins
  • Paterson
Dark Horses5:55
8."Lucid" (with Dark Horses)
  • Perkins
  • Patterson
Sweet Nothing4:24
9."I Don't Worry Anymore" (The Cruel Sea) Where There's Smoke3:52
10."A Place to Hide" (Tex, Don & Charlie)
  • Perkins
All Is Forgiven3:12
11."It Won't Last" (The Cruel Sea)
  • Perkins
  • Dan Rumour
The Most3:15
12."Anybody But You" (The Cruel Sea)
  • Perkins
Three Legged Dog3:56
13."Please Break Me Gently"
  • Perkins
Dark Horses2:51
14."Paycheques" (Tex, Don & Charlie)
All Is Forgiven4:30
15."Fake That Emotion" (Tex, Don & Charlie)
  • Perkins
  • Glenn Dormand
Sad But True5:49
16."Real Love"
  • Perkins
Far Be It From Me3:44
17."Still the Same" (Tex, Don & Charlie)
  • Perkins
Sad But True3:17
18."The Singer of the Song" (Tex, Don & Charlie)
  • Paterson
  • Perkins
All Is Forgiven4:49

Charts[]

Charts (2009) Position
Australian Albums (ARIA) 95[4]

Release history[]

Region Date Format Edition(s) Label Catalogue
Australia August 2009
  • CD
 Standard Universal Music Australia 2715178

References[]

  1. ^ "Tex Perkins: Songs From My Black Cattle Dog + Tour Dates". Music Feeds. 30 September 2009. Retrieved 28 March 2019.
  2. ^ Jump up to: a b "Tex Perkins – The Best of Tex Perkins: Songs from my Black Cattle Dog". The Dwarf. 13 August 2009. Retrieved 28 March 2019.
  3. ^ "On the road, Cash in hand". The Australian. 21 August 2009. Retrieved 28 March 2019.
  4. ^ Ryan, Gavin (2011). Australia's Music Charts 1988–2010 (pdf ed.). Mt. Martha, VIC, Australia: Moonlight Publishing. p. 216.
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