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Charlie Owen

Charlie Owen: bands, records, sessions and production work.

Charlie Owen

01 Profile

Charlie Owen’s archive brings together his bands, a substantial discography, session appearances and production work.
02

Recorded work

Records

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1993

Tex, Don & Charlie Sad But True (1993)

Tracks

  1. Redheads, Gold Cards, & Long black Limousines
  2. Postcards from Elvis
  3. Fake that emotion
  4. The girl with the bluebird
  5. What I done to her
  6. Sitting in a bar
  7. Dead dog boogie
  8. Louise
  9. Fateful Day
  10. Danielle
  11. Still the same
  12. Barlow and Chambers
  13. I must be getting Soft
Credits & release details

Members

  • Tex Perkins: Guitar & Vocals
  • Don Walker: Vocals, Keyboards
  • Charlie Owen: Backing Vocals, Guitar, Dobro, Lapsteel
  • Shane Walsh: Bass
  • Jim White: Drums
  • Kim Salmon: Jewsharp
  • Warren Ellis: Violin
  • Garret Costigan: Pedal Steel

Production & release

Engineered & Mixed by Tony Cohen

Recorded & Mixed at Metropolis Studios, Melbourne, Australia

Reference: Red Eye/Polygram - REDCD37 / 521 182-2

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1994

Charlie Owen Vertigo & Other Phobia (1994)

Tracks

  1. Baby Please Don’t Go
  2. Wilt
  3. The Drill
  4. Let Sleeping Pills Lie
  5. Cry
  6. (It doesn’t Matter) When You’re On Your Own
  7. Through The Asteroïd Belt
  8. Stuck Inside
  9. New years Eve
  10. This Is Suicide
Credits & release details

Members

  • Charlie Owen: Guitar
  • Jim Dickson: Bass
  • Nick Fisher: Drums
  • Kim Salmon: Guitar on 8 & 10
  • Penny Ikinger: Guitar on 2
  • Spencer P. Jones: Ebo on 5
  • Shane Walsh: Double Bass on 9

Production & release

Produced by Spencer P. Jones

Recorded at Atlantis Studios, Melbourne, Australia

Reference: Red Eye/Polygram - REDCD37 / 521 182-2

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1994

Louis Tillet & Charlie Owen The Ugly Truth (1994)

Tracks

  1. Trip to Kalu-Ki-Bar
  2. Sailor’s Dream
  3. Wilt
  4. Swimming in the Mirror
  5. The rational One
  6. From Me To You
  7. One Kind Flavor
  8. The Ugly Truth
  9. Liferaft
  10. Condemned To Live
  11. Ode To A Falling Star
Credits & release details

Members

  • Louis Tillett : Piano, Hammond, Percussion, Vocal.
  • Charlie Owen: All Guitars, Percussion and hammond on 4

Production & release

Produced by Charlie Owen

Recorded at Atlantis Studios, Melbourne, Australia, on the Australian winter solstice, 1993

Reference: Normal Records/Return to sender - RTS5 (Limited Edition of 2.000 copies)

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1995

Charlie Owen & Joel Silbersher Tendrils (1995)

Tracks

  1. The World Is Softest
  2. Snooze Alarm
  3. Lullaby
  4. Caught In A Lie
  5. Orange Ray
  6. On Your Plate
  7. Sponge Of Mind
  8. Nights Comes In
  9. Something Down There
  10. Almost There
Credits & release details

Members

  • Greg Bainbridge: Drums on 2,5 & 7
  • Todd Mc Neair: Drums on 10

Production & release

Produced by Spencer P. Jones

Recorded at Atlantis Studios, Melbourne, Australia

Reference: Dog Meat - DOG065CD

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1995

Louis Tillet & Charlie Owen Midnight Rain (1995)

Tracks

  1. Around You
  2. Summer
  3. Alligator Wine
  4. An Ancient Song
  5. Last Thing That I’ll Say
  6. Gloomy Sunday
  7. Midnight rain
  8. When
  9. Clock On The Wall
  10. I’m Down
Credits & release details

Members

  • Louis Tillett : Vocals, Piano, Hammond Organ, Roland Synthetizer, Soprano Saxophone.
  • Charlie Owen: All Guitars, and everything on 5

Production & release

Recorded by Tony Cohen at Metropolis Studios, Melbourne, March, 1995

Reference: Normal Records/Return to sender - RTS18 (Limited Edition of 2.000 copies)

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1995

Louis Tillet & Charlie Owen Midnight Rain - 2CD (1995)

Tracks

Tracks on Disc 1
  1. Around You
  2. Midnight rain
  3. Summer
  4. An Ancient Song
  5. Last Thing That I’ll Say
  6. Clock On The Wall
  7. Alligator Wine
  8. Gloomy Sunday
  9. When
  10. I’m Down
Tracks on Disc 2 (“Songs from The Ugly Truth”)
  1. Trip to Kalu-Ki-Bar
  2. Ode To A Falling Star
  3. Sailor’s Dream
  4. Wilt
  5. Swimming in the Mirror
Credits & release details

Members

  • Louis Tillett : Vocals, Piano, Hammond Organ, Synthetizer, Soprano Saxophone., harmonica, Triangle
  • Charlie Owen: Acoustic Guitars, Electric Guitar, Drum, Percussion, and everything on 5

Production & release

Recorded by Tony Cohen at Metropolis Studios, Melbourne, March, 1995

Reference: Red Eye/Polygram: REDCD52 / 529 339-2

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1995

Tex, Don & Charlie Monday Morning Coming Down ... (1995)

Tracks

  1. Fateful Day
  2. The girl with the bluebird
  3. Postcards from Elvis
  4. Fake that emotion
  5. Redheads, Gold Cards, & Long black Limousines
  6. Louise
  7. What I done to her
  8. Dead dog boogie
  9. Sitting in a bar
  10. Danielle
  11. Play with fire
  12. Still the same
  13. I must be getting Soft
  14. Bird on a wire
  15. Sing me back home
  16. Sunday morning coming down
Credits & release details

Members

  • Tex Perkins: Guitar & Vocals
  • Don Walker: Vocals, Piano & Organ
  • Charlie Owen: Backing Vocals, Guitar, Dobro & Lapsteel
  • Shane Walsh: Bass
  • Jim White: Drums
  • Garret Costigan: Pedal Steel
  • Louis Tillett : Organ & Backing Vocals

Production & release

Recorded Live at the Gerswin Room, Esplanade Hotel, St Kilda, Melbourne.

Mixed in the back room at the Gerswin by Charlie Owen

Reference: Red Eye/Polygram - REDCD43 / 5270892

Archive record artwork
1998

Louis Tillet & Charlie Owen Storming The Citadel 10" (1998)

Tracks

1 Tracks on this record
  1. Headin’ South (New Christs)
Credits & release details

Members

  • Louis Tillett: Vocals, Keyboards
  • Charlie Owen : Guitars, Tambourine

Production & release

Recorded by Jorden Bach at Damien Gerard Studios, Sydney, Jan 30 & Feb 1, 1998

Produced by Rob Younger

Reference: Divine Rites Records - DR03 - Limited Edition of 700

Archive record artwork
1998

Tendrils Soaking Red (1998)

Tracks

  1. Soaking Red
  2. Goat Curry
  3. The Prune in Heat
  4. Gulp
  5. All Stunk Up
  6. Hands Are Ttired
  7. Raw Feeling
  8. Easter Mongrel
  9. The Time It Is Come
  10. Glass Antenny
  11. Whittling
  12. Do What You have To
  13. Wednesday The 22nd
Credits & release details

Members

  • Joel Sibersher: Vocals, Guitars, Drums, Harmonica, Incidental Keyboards
  • Charlie Owen: Guitars, Pedal Bass, Piano, Organ, Percussion, Mandolin, Banjo, Bass Recorder, Backing vocals on 3, Drums on 10
  • Jim White: Drums on 7

Production & release

Recorded by Dave McLuney, Charlie and Joel

Mixed at Atlantis studios, Melbourne Australia.

Reference : Half A Cow - HAC71

Death's Dateless Night by Paul Kelly and Charlie Owen album cover
2016 Collaborative studio album · LP / CD

Death’s Dateless Night

Credits & release details

Members

  • Paul Kelly
  • Charlie Owen

Production & release

Album of songs about mortality, released 7 October 2016 by Gawd Aggie (GAWD025).
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Behind the desk

Production

No separate archive entry yet.