Nytt livealbum med Bruce Springsteen och ett nytt bra album med Nick Lowe

Nytt som ska laddas in i ipoden ikväll:
Ny skiva med The Boss:

Bruce Springsteen with the Sessions Band: "Live in Dublin"
Hyllad av DN:
Gissningsvis tänker han sätta punkt ungefär här, innan parentesen blir för utdragen, men när man tar del av denna liveupptagning från tre kvällar i Dublin i höstas är det lätt att vilja ha ett varv till. Eftersom det låter så obetalbart lustfyllt, som om något har släppt inne i Bruce Springsteen när han har ställt sig mitt i detta egentligen alldeles överdimensionerade sjuttonmannaband.

Nick Lowe - At my Age (redan titeln gör att det inte går att motstå skivan, som fick bra recensioner av DN:)

"At my age" är en skimrande liten skiva, helt i klass med den sex år gamla "The convincer". Stämningen är så trevlig och
värdig, kompet lågmält svängande och hans sång är tröste­rik och hjärtlig.

Det stod inte många rader om Nick Lowe i svenska wikipedian:

Nick Lowe (Nicholas Drain Lowe), född 24 mars 1949 i Walton-on-Thames, England. Singer-songwriter, basist, gitarrist och producent.

Men desto mer i den engelska versionen förstås:
He began his recording career in 1966 as a member of Kippington Lodge, founded with his friend Brinsley Schwarz, which released a few singles on Parlophone. Three years later Kippington Lodge had changed its name to Brinsley Schwarz and its musical focus to country- and blues-rock. Lowe's best-known song from the Brinsley Schwarz era is probably either "(What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace, Love, and Understanding," which was a major hit for Elvis Costello in 1979, or "Cruel to Be Kind," a song the other band members rejected but was later a solo hit for Lowe.

After leaving Brinsley Schwarz in the mid-1970s, Lowe began playing in Rockpile with Dave Edmunds. In August 1976, Lowe released "So It Goes" b/w "Heart of the City", the first single on the Stiff Records label where he was in-house producer (the label's first EP was Lowe's 1977 four-track release Bowi, apparently named in response to David Bowie's contemporary LP Low) . On this and other labels, Lowe would go on to produce The Damned's Damned, Damned, Damned and many albums by Elvis Costello, including My Aim Is True, This Year's Model, and Armed Forces. Upon moving from Stiff to Jake Riviera's Radar and F-Beat labels, Lowe became extremely selective in his choice of production tasks.

....

Lowe's best-known song from this era is probably "I Knew the Bride When She Used to Rock 'n' Roll" (the verse structure and topic adapted from Chuck Berry's "You Never Can Tell" (a.k.a. "Teenage Wedding"), but adding a chorus section to Berry's verse-after-verse format). On the 1977 Live Stiffs compilation with a pickup band called Last Chicken in the Shop, he virtually sneers out his contempt for all concerned; in 1985, fronting Nick Lowe and His Cowboy Outfit on the album The Rose of England, he hasn't changed the words, but the tone is entirely different, even affectionate (the song was produced by Huey Lewis, while his band The News played on the track).




Atlantic City (Live In Dublin)
Bruce Springsteen With The Sessions Band Live In Dublin


Och Nick Lowe:

Andra bloggar om: Nick Lowe, Bruce Springsteen, ipod, musik, music, mp3, album, skivor, skiva, skivrecension, kritik, live, Dublin, liveskiva, livealbum