Don't Tell The Driver

Wonder, disenchantment and singing — must be a rock opera! Blurry guitars, sea-legged rhythms, somnolent tempo - must be Mick Turner! Don't Tell the Driver — must be his masterpiece.

On Australian guitarist and Dirty Three member Mick Turner's new album Don’t Tell the Driver, Turner favors listing rhythms and loose meters. Over eleven carefully yet imaginatively arranged songs, its music suggests unrehearsed spontaneity but also tribulation and peril.

Mick Turner has long been a guitarist who eschews the spotlight.

Earlier this year, Drag City reissued early albums from Venom P. Stinger, Mick Turner's punk band with fellow Dirty Three member and drummer Jim White