Dallas Crane
They rehearsed material for their debut album, Lent (1998), in a Port Melbourne oil shed on the property of Dallas Crane Transport.
"[3] One of their fans was Richard Kingsmill of national radio station, Triple J, who invited them to record a track, "Nylon Don't Breathe", live in the ABC studios, during his Australian Music Show.
[9] During their shows with You Am I, lead singer Tim Rogers touted, "Dallas Crane is the best band in the country" and made reference to them in the You Am I single, "Who Put the Devil in You" (September 2002).
[6][9] Rogers curated the soundtrack for a feature film, Dirty Deeds (2002), and asked Dallas Crane to supply a cover version of "Wild About You", originally performed by Australian 1960's band, the Missing Links.
They played at Homebake in Sydney in 2003, joining fellow Australian groups the Church and Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds for the festival's line-up.
Dallas Crane started their own headline tour promoting No Through Road and finished the year at Melbourne's Big Day Out festival.
Shortly after that performance, they gathered backstage to sign with Albert Productions, joining label mates AC/DC on a roster that had included the Easybeats and Rose Tattoo.
[10] According to Michael Tran of Oz Music Project, "It's always debateable [sic] whether the world needs more well-written, competently played, blues rock... [this] is [Dallas Crane's] song, after all.
"[8] In August 2005 the group provided a cover version of "Dig It Up" for the Hoodoo Gurus tribute album, Stoneage Cameos, by various Australian artists.
Craig Mathieson of The Age felt that "by dint of songwriting strength, ease of expression and a touch of studio sweat – Melbourne four-piece Dallas Crane stay on the right side of the great divide... between being timeless and out of time.
A performance at Brisbane's The Zoo received positive reviews in local independent media and reaffirmed the band's popularity as a rock act.
They undertook a more extensive tour during September, and then travelled overseas for their second United Kingdom visit, following with an appearance at the SXSW Festival in Austin, Texas.
With close to 1500 acts from around the world performing gigs, Dallas Crane joined a local contingent of Australasian artists at SXSW 2007, alongside Beasts of Bourbon, You Am I, Hoodoo Gurus, Expatriate, Youth Group and Airbourne.
Their United States visit saw them also perform at the Los Angeles venue The Troubadour, New York's Bowery Ballroom, and Boston's Middle East Club.
In 2009 they reunited briefly after being asked to join UK rock act, the Who, on six arena dates of their national tour, which included a spot at Melbourne's Grand Prix.
Andrew McMillen of The Australian rated it 4.5 stars claiming, "It's a towering achievement that sees Dallas Crane exhibiting that key-in-lock feel sought by every rock band.
If anything, it's an embarrassment of riches"[18] Rolling Stone's Jaymz Clements rated it as four out of five, and felt that "Dallas Crane have grown into a smarter, better band is no surprise.
Scoundrels is intelligent, bluesy, mature and unpredictable..."[19] From late December 2015 and into April 2016 the group undertook a national headline tour promoting the album.
[17][20] In October 2016, the band released the single "Cheyenne" (digital only) also recorded by Jez Giddings and Craig Harnath at Melbourne's Hothouse Audio.
