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Dave Edmunds: Swan Songs: The Singles 1976-1981
by Doug Collette
Extended as is Joe Marchese's essay in the twelve-page booklet enclosed with Swan Songs, it is nonetheless as breezy and free-flowing as the content spread across the two compact discs. Consisting of cuts originally issued 45-rpm singles on the label imprimatur of Led Zeppelin (referenced in the main title of the package), the cumulative impact of these selections reaffirms the effect of the somewhat daunting expanse of prose, that is, clearly making the case for Edmunds as a decidedly rootsy ...
Continue ReadingJohn Lee Hooker: The Best of Friends
by Doug Collette
In contrast to his often (always?) irascible peer Chester Burnett, aka Howlin' Wolf, John Lee Hooker has long been amenable to collaborations, reciprocal and otherwise. Bonnie Raitt, Los Lobos, Charlie Musselwhite and Carlos Santana, among others, appeared on The Healer (Chameleon,1989) and all those artists also populate the credits for The Best of Friends. (Santana, the Mexican-born guitar hero, appears with two different iterations of his band). Fittingly titled, this anthology is a suitable companion piece to Whiskey ...
Continue ReadingNick Lowe - The Old Magic (2011)
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Something Else!
Growing older has made Nick Lowe grayer, a little quieter, but no less clever, no less relevant, and certainly no less off-handedly absorbing. He is the living, breathing, guitar-playing, Buddy Holly shade-wearing embodiment of the old saw about getting better with age. And that's saying something. After all, Lowe helped shape the New Wave sound of the late 1970s and '80s as a producer for Elvis Costello, the Pretenders and Graham Parker, even while establishing his own often overlooked career ...
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Nick Lowe: Solo Dates
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JamBase
NICK LOWE CONFIRMS SOLO WEST COAST DATES TO FOLLOW TOUR WITH WILCO IN SEPTEMBER Nick Lowe has confirmed a string of solo headlining West Coast tour dates this October, including two nights at Largo in LA, in support of his new album The Old Magic out September 13 via Yep Roc. Lowe will preview the album in August with intimate performances and Q&A's at The GRAMMY Museum in LA, The Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum in Nashville, and ...
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Nick Lowe: Fall Tour W. Wilco, New Album out 9.13
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NICK LOWE CONFIRMS FALL TOUR WITH WILCO; NEW ALBUM THE OLD MAGIC OUT SEPT 13 VIA YEP ROC Nick Lowe will support Wilco on all dates of the first leg of its fall 2011 North American tour, coinciding with the release of his first album in over four years, The Old Magic. The album will be released September 13 via Yep Roc, and the tour kicks off the same day, with stops at NYC's Central Park Summerstage, two nights at ...
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The New Best of Nick Lowe
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JamBase
Nick Lowe to Release Career-Spanning set Quiet PleaseThe New Best of Nick Lowe Vintage Music Videos Unearthed for Deluxe Version
Nick Lowe British songwriting icon Nick Lowe will release his definitive best of Quiet PleaseThe New Best of Nick Lowe on March 17, 2009.
Following his critically acclaimed solo album At My Age which People Magazine called “charming" and “timeless" and his near perfectly rated reissue of the classic Jesus of Cool (rated 9.3 by Pitchfork), Nick Lowe ...
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Nick Lowe:jesus of Cool
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All About Jazz
By: Dennis Cook
There's not a lot of perfect albums, and Jesus of Cool (Yep Roc) is one of them. Every element - songwriting, production, performances, arrangements - is spot on, and this 30th Anniversary Edition just ups the ante on what was already a mighty good thing.
When Jesus first surfaced in 1978 it was Nick Lowe's solo debut but he was already a hardened veteran of Britain's pub rock scene, which birthed Ace, fueled The Faces and had ...
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