The Loner is a live album by Australian singer-songwriter, Vic Simms, which was recorded when he was incarcerated in Bathurst Gaol in 1973.

[1] The Robin Hood Foundation sent his demo tape to RCA Limited, which organised a mobile studio to be sent to the prison.

[3] During 2014 Brisbane musician, Luke Peacock, was converting analogue recordings into a digital archive when he came across, The Loner.

[4][5] Besides Simms and Peacock, the other musicians were the Medics (a Cairns-based group), Paul Kelly, Paddy McHugh, the Warm Guns Choir, John Busby, Greg Cathcart, Kahl Wallace, Roger Knox, Bunna Lawrie and Rusty Hopkinson (of You Am I).

[5] In November 2017 The Painted Ladies Play Selections from the Loner was listed in the book, The 110 Best Australian Albums, by music journalists Toby Creswell, Craig Mathieson and John O'Donnell.