Jazz Articles about Danny Federici

Graham Parker: The Up Escalator - 40th Anniversary Edition

by Doug Collette
August 16, 2020

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?