Category Archives: Nick Lowe

Elvis Costello and the Attractions | Get Happy!! (Sessions)

Elvis Costello found a new blueprint for his album Get Happy!! after buying a bunch of Stax singles and a copy of Motown Chartbusters Volume 3, as this massive bootleg of session demos displays. Elvis Costello and the Attractions – … Continue reading

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Dr. Feelgood – Stupidity (1976)

With the recent passing of Wilko Johnson, best known as guitarist and songwriter for UK rock group Dr. Feelgood, The Press takes a look at one of their finest albums: the chart-topping live document, Stupidity. Wilko Johnson, who recently passed … Continue reading

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High Fidelity – The Best of Elvis Costello in the ’80s

This 20 track collection covers the albums, artistic phases, evolutions, and bouts of fancy from Elvis Costello in the 1980s – arguably the bespectacled one’s most artistically rewarding decade. Emerging from Britain’s new wave scene in the late-70s era, Elvis … Continue reading

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Nick Lowe – Quality Street: A Seasonal Selection for All the Family

A roundly enjoyable seasonal selection from Nick Lowe, Christmas-themed for your convenience, Quality Street: A Seasonal Selection For All The Family (2013) is a twinkling blend of forgotten gems, torch songs and three Lowe originals. From the opening rockabilly-charged Children … Continue reading

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Nick Lowe – Bowi

It was Nick Lowe’s idea of a conceptual joke: a few months after David Bowie released the album Low in January 1977, Lowe issued the cleverly titled Bowi, returning the compliment. A cheeky moment in a cheeky career, it’s quite the … Continue reading

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