Sad but True is the debut studio album by Australian rock band Tex, Don and Charlie.

[1] In early 1992, Don Walker, Charlie Owen, James Cruickshank and Tex Perkins played an acoustic live performance for alternative radio station JJJ.

I made a mental note that I'd like to work with Charlie and about one year later I heard he was playing with Don Walker in Catfish.

[6] Walker said, "The first time I clapped eyes on Tex was when he came in my front door, and the next thing I noticed was that he opened his mouth & sung a song or two, and he had this extraordinary voice.

"[11] The support players included noted musicians such as Kim Salmon, Warren Ellis and Jim White.

It was like a bird in song…"[9] Walker said, ""I originally wanted to get Garrett in on pedal steel for a couple of songs but Tex and Charlie said 'why?'

Reviewed at the time of release, Chris Whiting said it, "has a place & feel which reminds you of the Paris Texas album.

The Sydney Morning Herald agreed, "The songs bring to life a low-life world of late-night bars, transvestites, girls with tattoos and lives gone wrong.

The Walker-penned songs are not so depressing, but they are incisive and Owen's instrumental, "Dead Dog Boogie", is a perfect foil to all the deep and meaningfuls.

"[15] The Sydney Morning Herald called it, "a genuine beauty, a late-night collection of downbeat and often wittily mordant country ballads.

The songs plaintively bring to life a low-life world of late-night bars, transvestites, girls with tattoos and lives gone wrong.

"[16] The book 100 Best Australian Albums said, "The genre, nominally, was country blues, with stories plucked from the night or passed along on the back verandah, as arid percussion, sighing pedal steel guitar and lyrical piano parts wended their way through the narratives.