Monday Morning Coming Down...
Monday Morning Coming Down... is the first and only live album by Australian rock band Tex, Don and Charlie. It was released in February 1995 on the last day of their tour and peaked at number 96 on the Australian charts.
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| Live album by | ||||
| Released | February 1995 | |||
| Venue | The Gershwin Room, Esplanade Hotel, St. Kilda, Melbourne, Australia | |||
| Length | 71:50 | |||
| Label | Red Eye Records, Polydor | |||
| Producer | Tex, Don and Charlie | |||
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In Tex Perkins' 2017 autobiography Tex he says "Originally recorded live as a bonus disc for a second run of promotion for Sad But True, we realised that would mean a whole lot of people who bought Sad But True when it first came out would have to buy the album again to get Monday Morning Coming Down... so we insisted it be released as an album unto itself. So basically it's a collision of record company logic and artist morality. It probably shouldn't exist at all, being comprised of most of the previous album and a few wobbly covers."[1]
Owen said, "It was a really special tour and the live album showed that to us. Every song of the gig was fantastic and we put every song on the album."[2]
Track listing
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Fateful Day" | Walker | |
| 2. | "The Girl with the Bluebird" | Walker | |
| 3. | "Postcard From Elvis" | Michael Dan Ehmig, Michael Smotherman | |
| 4. | "Fake That Emotion" | Glenn Dormand, Perkins | |
| 5. | "Redheads, Gold Cards & Long Black Limousines" | Walker, Smotherman | |
| 6. | "Louise" | Walker | |
| 7. | "I Won't Do To You What I Done to Her" | Owen, Perkins | |
| 8. | "Dead Dog Boogie" | Owen | |
| 9. | "Sitting in a Bar" | Walker | |
| 10. | "Danielle" | Walker | |
| 11. | "Play with Fire" | Nanker Phelge | |
| 12. | "Still the Same" | Perkins | |
| 13. | "I Must Be Getting Soft" | Perkins | |
| 14. | "Bird on a Wire" | Leonard Cohen | |
| 15. | "Sing Me Back Home" | Merle Haggard | |
| 16. | "Sunday Morning Coming Down" | Kris Kristofferson |
Personnel
- Tex Perkins – vocals, guitar
- Don Walker – vocals, piano, keyboards
- Charlie Owen – guitar, dobro
- Shane Walsh – double bass
- Jim White – drums
- Kim Salmon – jew's harp
- Garrett Costigan – pedal steel guitar[1]
Charts
| Chart (1995) | Peak position |
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| Australian Albums (ARIA)[3] | 96 |
Release history
| Region | Date | Format | Label | Catalogue |
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| Australia | February 1995 | 2×CD | Red Eye Records, Polydor | REDCD43, 527089-2 |
References
- Perkins, Tex (July 2017). Tex. AU: Pan Macmillan Australia. ISBN 9781925481358.
- Nicole Leedham. "Back for more fun times". Canberra Times.
- Ryan, Gavin (2011). Australia's Music Charts 1988–2010 (PDF ed.). Mt Martha, Victoria, Australia: Moonlight Publishing. p. 296.