Charlie Owen (musician)
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| Birth name | Charles Lothian Lloyd Owen |
| Occupation(s) | Musician, producer |
| Instruments | Guitars (lead, slide, lap steel, acoustic, bass), dobro, banjo, mandolin, drums, organ, pedal bass, percussion, piano, harmonica, jaw-harp |
| Years active | 1982–present |
| Labels | Red Eye/Polydor, Normal/Return to Sender, Divine Rites, Dog Meat, Half A Cow |
| Associated acts | Ninja Skill, Tango Bravo, The New Christs, Paris Green, Louis Tillett and His Cast of Aspersions, Catfish, Divinyls, Tex, Don and Charlie, Maurice Frawley and the Working Class Ringos, Tendrils, Beasts of Bourbon, Tex Perkins and The Dark Horses |
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Charles Lothian Lloyd "Charlie" Owen is an Australian multi-instrumentalist and producer. He has been a member of The New Christs (1987–90), Louis Tillett and His Cast of Aspersions (1990), Tex, Don and Charlie (1993–95, 2005–06), and Beasts of Bourbon (1996–97, 2003). His solo album, Vertigo and Other Phobias, appeared in 1994 on Red Eye/Polydor.
Owen has produced albums by The Plunderers, Louis Tillett (both solo and in a duo with Owen), Tex Perkins, and Penny Ikinger. As a session player, he has appeared on albums by Tony Buck, Kim Salmon and the Surrealists, Robert Forster, Spencer P. Jones, The Cruel Sea, Steve Prestwich, Conway Savage and Don Walker. In May 2012 Australian Guitar magazine listed Owen in the Top 40 of Australia's best guitarists.
Charles Lothian Lloyd Owen was raised with two older sisters, both became visual artists. His father was a captain in the navy, he gave Owen preliminary piano and guitar lessons. His mother was a visual artist who tried to teach him to paint "Jesus how embarrassing, when all my friends were off trying to find cigarette butts to smoke and that... painting bloody pictures, but that was just what we did".
At about eight or nine-years-old he formed a duo, Hot Dogs, with a neighbour to play for their parents, they only knew part of "Walk, Don't Run", a surf-jazz instrumental from 1954 by The Ventures. While he was still at primary school the family moved to Canberra and, at age 12 or 13, with an older friend he played at a youth club, Griffin Centre. His biggest influences were Django Reinhardt's "irreverence" and John Coltrane's "reverence".
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