Don Walker Don Walker was born in Ayr, North Queensland, on 29th November, 1951. He grew up on a farm in Northern N.S.W., studying science and maths at the University of New England. In 1973, while working at the Weapons Research Establishment at Salisbury in South Australia, he helped form Cold Chisel with Les Kaczmarek, Ian Moss, Steve Prestwich and Jim Barnes. In 1978, after five years travelling and playing in Australia, with Les now replaced by Phil Small, Cold Chisel released their debut album. In 1981, at the height of Cold Chisel's success, Don Walker wrote and produced the soundtrack for the Scott Hicks movie "Freedom", featuring most of Cold Chisel and then unknown INXS singer Michael Hutchence. In 1996 Phil Mortlock, a longtime enthusiast for the recordings, remastered and re-released the soundtrack album on his Origin Records label. In 1983, after a five album career in Australia and New Zealand, and having gained a cult following in Europe and the U.S., Cold Chisel disbanded. For several years Don travelled areas of Asia, Russia and Europe he hadn't had the opportunity to see as a musician. In 1989 he released "Unlimited Address", a set of songs under the band name Catfish, recorded with producer/guitar player Peter Walker (no relation) and harmonica player David Blight. As a touring band Catfish also featured guitar player Charlie Owen. In 1991 the second Catfish album, "Ruby", was released, recorded with James Brown's rhythm section of drummer Tony Cook and guitar player Ron Laster. The songs were more Australian in content. Slim Dusty had a hit with a recording of Charleville, which he and Don then re-recorded in a duet. In 1993 the Tex, Don and Charlie album, "Sad But True" was released in Australia and Europe. A collaboration with Tex Perkins and Charlie Owen, "Sad But True" showed the first results of the songwriting Don had been doing with various people, particularly Michael Smotherman, in Nashville the previous year. Tex, Don and Charlie toured, recording and releasing the live album "Monday Morning Coming Down" In 1994 Don Walker recorded the album "We're All Gunna Die" over four days at Electric Avenue Studios, in Sydney, with a touring band featuring David Blight and Red Rivers on guitar. Realizing that the songs and the performances were something of a culmination of everything else he'd done, Don released this as his first solo album in 1995. In 1998 Don contributed nine of the fourteen songs on the Cold Chisel album “The Last Wave of Summer”, including the top ten single “The Things I Love In You”. Don continued to write songs which were recorded by numerous artists including Slim Dusty, Troy Casser-Daley, Graeme Connors, Jeff Lang, kate Ceberano, Adam Brand and Wendy Matthews. 2005 saw the release of a new Tex, Don and Charlie album, “All Is Forgiven” which saw the three not only touring around Australia but saw them travel for a number of shows in the UK. In July of 2006 Don released his latest album through Warner Music, “Cutting Back”. Following on from the release Don and his band, the S.F’s (Suave Fucks), undertook a solid national tour to promote the new album. Back to Band Members