Following their success in Australia, particularly after the release of East, Cold Chisel were unable to crack the American music market, and broke up not long after a strained five-week US tour.
“The person I’ve worked with the longest is Garrett Costigan, the pedal steel player. He’s the finest musician I’ve ever worked with,” Walker says. “A close second would be Ian Moss. Or it could be [the late Cold Chisel drummer] Steve [Prestwich], or [guitarists] Charlie Owen, Roy Payne, or Red Rivers. There would be a cast of people for close second.”, which is released on May 5, features guitarist Roy Payne, who died soon after the album was made in 2022.
Velocity, as the former physics student refers to motion, has been “a recurring thing for me”. In between his piano lessons as a boy in Grafton and the early days of Cold Chisel in Adelaide, Walker embarked on his plan to become a scientist, specialising in quantum mechanics. Even now, at 72, it’s often in motion, particularly when he’s driving, that Walker finds his songs taking shape. He doesn’t consider himself to be a storyteller, but says “the people you’re talking about in the songs,” like the bloke who drove a worn-out Morris down to Adelaide in“I had storytellers all around me, particularly my father, he was the storyteller in the family,” he says. “My mother and sister are both authors, but unlike me, they’re award-winning authors.
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