Nick Lowe - The Impossible Bird
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Artist: Nick LoweEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1994-11-29
Music Label: Upstart / Umgd
Soundtracks:
- Soulful Wind
- The Beast In Me
- True Love Travels On A Gravel Road
- Trail Of Tears
- Shelley My Love
- Where's My Everything
- 12- Step Program ( To Quit You Babe)
- Lover Don't Go
- Drive- Thru Man
- Withered On The Vine
- I Live On A Battlefield
- 14 Days
- I'll Be There
Description of The Impossible Bird
Three of songwriting icon Nick Lowe's finest albums, now for the first time on vinyl...Nick Lowe's triumphant return to the indie world back in 1994 was marked by the release of the critically-acclaimed The Impossible Bird. With the overall excitement that followed the release, it was evident that Nick's music had taken a slightly different twist on the road in the way of a more mature tone and stripped down musical arrangement. And although it was unknown at the time, Nick's next two records Dig My Mood and The Convincer would travel the same road, achieving greater success with each effort. These three records always represented a kind of trilogy to Nick and now for the first time, all three are being issued on vinyl by Nick's now longtime label Yep Roc Records. Many fans consider Lowe's later period of work to be his very best and of course we agree. Now Nick's legendary croon can be heard on the very medium that made him the icon he is today. Viva vinyl.
As a member of both Rockpile and Brinsley Schwarz, as a producer for Elvis Costello, Graham Parker, the Damned, and the Pretenders, and as a solo artist with his own Top 20 hit, Nick Lowe seemed to have his finger in every pub-rock pie there was. Unlike so many of their punk pals, the pub-rockers had a sense of craft and tradition which enabled them to outlive the moment, and that's why Lowe is still making strong, fascinating records nearly 20 years after the heady days of 1976-'78. Lowe's 1994 The Impossible Bird is a low-key, easy-going album which has a lot more to do with 1956 country music than with 1978 punk. Nonetheless the 13 songs--10 Lowe originals and three country chestnuts--are marked by the sort of no-frills arrangements and unpretentious passion that made pub-rock so special in the first place. When Lowe sings a ballad such as "The Beast in Me," "Withered on the Vine," and "Lover Don't Go," the arrangements are so minimalist--just a hint of guitar and drums behind the organ--that the song lives or dies by the vocal. Fortunately, Lowe pulls off the difficult trick of sounding lonely and desperate without sounding self-pitying. Whether it's a tongue-in-cheek rocker such as "12-Step Program (To Quit You Babe)" or one of the many ballads, Lowe and his musicians have stripped away every extraneous element that might get between the listener and the song. --Geoffrey Himes
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