Don Walker - Love Songs

Love Songs is the fifth solo studio album by Australian musician Don Walker, released in August 2026 via Salt Records.

Legendary Australian songwriter, Don Walker, returns with his fifth solo record, Love Songs, a deeply personal and beautifully crafted new album set for release on Friday, 7 August.

Across his work with Cold Chisel, Catfish, Tex, Don & Charlie and his acclaimed solo recordings, Don Walker has long been recognized as one of Australia’s most evocative storytellers, and Love Songs may well prove to be his masterpiece.

The album’s first single, “Let’s All Get Together”, sets the tone, combining Walker’s unmistakable voice with a hot tamale performance from the Suave Fucks and The Harmonettes.

Across the album’s nine songs, Walker moves effortlessly between sparse, piano-led storytelling and beautifully layered arrangements of guitars, steel, horns and harmonies. The result is a record that feels both timeless and immediate; a collection of songs that reveal new emotional shades with every listen.

Among the album’s standout moments is “Could You Still Be Here”, an intimate recording captured in Walker’s own basement straight to DAT around the turn of the century; a haunting time capsule that sits naturally alongside the more recent studio recordings.

Love Songs brings together an exceptional group of musicians.

“Luck and Fly Away” were recorded in 2022 with the late Roy Payne on guitar.  Shannon Bourne provides guitars across the rest of the album.  Garrett Costigan paints the horizon behind the stories with his peerless pedal steel while bassist Michael Vidale and drummer Hamish Stuart drive it all home.

Additional musicians include Mark Punch on guitar and backing vocals, Charlie Owen playing lapsteel on “Deeper Light”, Juanita Tippins singing backing vocals on “Luck”, and Sam Lemann playing guitar and mandolin on “Darwin”.

A horn section of Melbourne brass-slingers Michael Fraser, Gianni Marinucci, David Palmer and Paul Williamson punches through the album opener,”Let’s All Get Together”, while The Harmonettes (Amanda Roff, Erica Dunn, Brigitte Hart, Felicity Cripps and Alexandra Scott-Douglas) provide backing vocals throughout.

This album is on compact disc housed in a jewel case with printed booklet, pressed in Australia via Salt.