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On his first record in six years, this proto-punk icon keeps it terrifically mellow without getting mushy in the head. Lowe sticks mostly to roughly crooned ballads and vaguely Sixties-sounding rock, the best of which reveal a fighting spirit under their catchy exterior: Witness "I Trained Her to...
2007 RS:
Biography
When the great wave of punk broke on American shores in the late
'70s, it swept with it more conventional, pop-oriented songsters
who had been pining for a second shot at the British Invasion. Nick
Lowe, who had played bass and wrote and sung most of the songs in
the pub rock band Brinsley Schwarz, was ready to break big. But by
the time Columbia released Lowe's first solo album in the U.S., its
t...
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