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NICK LOWE - The Old Magic; NICK LOWE - The Old Magic
Topic Started: Sep 9 2011, 01:13 PM (197 Views)
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NICK LOWE
The Old Magic

Proper Records 2011

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Right. What do I know about Nick Lowe? Um, he had that hit in the seventies about breaking glass. We loved that at the third year school disco. He may have been married to Johnny Cash. He was in a band with that Welsh fella with the quiff. Budgie? Tredegar? Oh, yes, his middle name is Drain! And he wrote that song from "The Bodyguard" that Curtis Stigers covered. Made him as rich as a medium sized Central American country. Um, that's it. However, seems in the world of Mojo and Q, that he is a bit of a legend. Hitless, mind you, but then they like it that way.

This is his first album in four years, but then he is in his sixties, so there's no shame in that. Of course, I haven't heard any of his other dozen or so albums, so I can't really say whether this is better or worse than any of them, but if filled an hour very pleasantly. It's a bit like an old-timey covers album of Nashville B-sides circa 1972. Which is quite a nice thing to be. I'm not so hot on the ballads, but when he remembers to plug things in (gently, mind yer back) as he does on the likes of 'Somebody Cares for Me' and 'Restless Feeling', it's all rather nice.

He's got some big (in the seventies) time mates, what with being so old, and he's reeled a few of them in, so Geraint Watkins, Paul Carrack, and Jimmie Vaughan all turn up to do their party pieces round the fireplace. I was particularly taken with 'Checkout Time', which has some cracking lyrics on his mucky past and lack of a future. It's a gentle album, but you can't be too careful at his age. And there's nothing wrong with a wry, weary look at life. Or as I call it, afternoon tea break.


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Edited by zeitgeist, Sep 9 2011, 01:16 PM.
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