The Best of Tex Perkins

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 Best of Tex Perkins: Songs From My Black Cattle Dog
Greatest hits album by Tex Perkins
Released	August 2009
Length	80:06
Label	Universal 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 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.	Title	Writer(s)	Album	Length
1.	"What I Done to Her" (Tex, Don and Charlie)	Tex Perkins Charlie Owen	Sad But True	4:22
2.	"I Know You Know I Know"	Perkins	Dark Horses	4:31
3.	"Whenever It Snows" (Tex, Don & Charlie)	Murray Paterson Perkins	All Is Forgiven	4:41
4.	"She Speaks a Different Language"	Perkins	Dark Horses	4:45
5.	"Half of Nothing" (with Tim Rogers [as TnT])		My Better Half	4:46
6.	"Changelings" (with Dark Horses)	Perkins Patterson Owen	Sweet Nothing	4:30
7.	"Ice in the Sun"	Perkins Paterson	Dark Horses	5:55
8.	"Lucid" (with Dark Horses)	Perkins Patterson	Sweet Nothing	4:24
9.	"I Don't Worry Anymore" (The Cruel Sea)		Where There's Smoke	3:52
10.	"A Place to Hide" (Tex, Don & Charlie)	Perkins	All Is Forgiven	3:12
11.	"It Won't Last" (The Cruel Sea)	Perkins Dan Rumour	The Most	3:15
12.	"Anybody But You" (The Cruel Sea)	Perkins	Three Legged Dog	3:56
13.	"Please Break Me Gently"	Perkins	Dark Horses	2:51
14.	"Paycheques" (Tex, Don & Charlie)	Owen Don Walker Paterson Perkins	All Is Forgiven	4:30
15.	"Fake That Emotion" (Tex, Don & Charlie)	Perkins Glenn Dormand	Sad But True	5:49
16.	"Real Love"	Perkins	Far Be It From Me	3:44
17.	"Still the Same" (Tex, Don & Charlie)	Perkins	Sad But True	3:17
18.	"The Singer of the Song" (Tex, Don & Charlie)	Paterson Perkins	All Is Forgiven	4:49

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. "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.