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Graham Parker: The Up Escalator - 40th Anniversary Edition
by Doug Collette
It might well be an exercise in futility to find a more potent transitional album than Graham Parker's The Up Escalator. At least that's what The 40th Anniversary Edition suggests, and in no uncertain terms. Why else open the album with a track of deserved braggadocio titled No Holding Back" or close it with that sentiment brought to life on the crackling live takes of the record's two most unforgiving numbers, Empty Live" and Stupefaction," included as bonus material?
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