The Impossible Bird

by Nick Lowe

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1.	Soulful Wind 03:00	buy track
2.	The Beast in Me 02:28	buy track
3.	True Love Travels on a Gravel Road 03:36	buy track
4.	Trail of Tears 03:17	buy track
5.	Shelley My Love 03:14	buy track
6.	Where's My Everything? 02:41	buy track
7.	12-Step Program (To Quit You Babe) 03:16	buy track
8.	Lover Don't Go 04:06	buy track
9.	Drive-Thru Man 02:41	buy track
10.	Withered on the Vine 03:22	buy track
11.	I Live on a Battlefield 03:23	buy track
12.	14 Days 02:57	buy track
13.	I'll Be There 02:17	buy track

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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.

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released September 21, 2010

1994 Nick Lowe Ltd.

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Nick Lowe London, UK

Nick Lowe has made his mark as a producer (Elvis Costello-Graham Parker-Pretenders-The Damned), songwriter of at least three songs you know by heart, short-lived career as a pop star, and a lengthy term as a musicians’ musician. But in his current ‘second act’ as a silver-haired, tender-hearted but sharp-tongued singer-songwriter, he has no equal. ... more

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Jun 10

Commodore Ballroom

Vancouver, BC
Jun 12

Bella Concert Hall, Taylor Centre for the Performing Arts, Mount Royal University

Calgary, AB
Jun 15

Burton Cummings Theatre

Winnipeg, MB
Jun 17

Bronson Centre

Ottawa, ON
Jun 20

Narrows Center for the Arts

Fall River, MA
Jun 21

Stone Mountain Arts Center

Brownfield, ME
Jun 22

Infinity Music Hall

Hartford, CT
Jun 23

Levon Helm Studios

Woodstock, NY
Jun 25

Tarrytown Music Hall

Tarrytown, NY
Jun 26

Landmark On Main Street

Port Washington, NY
Jun 28

Mass MoCA

North Adams, MA
Jun 28

Palace Theatre

Manchester, NH

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