Wednesday, April 17, 2024

Dave Edmunds - BBC Sessions, Volume 1: BBC Rock Hour, Uncle Sam's, Hull, MA, 11-21-1982

Dave Edmunds and Nick Lowe were the two main figures in the band Rockpile in the late 1970s. Edmunds and Lowe parted ways around the start of 1981, but both of them kept going strongly with their solo careers. When it comes to Edmunds' solo career and the BBC, I've only found enough for two albums, both concerts. Here's the first one.

The peak of Edmunds' popularity was probably the early 1980s, and that's when this concert is from. Earlier in 1982, he released his solo album "D.E. 7th," so naturally there are some songs from that, though less than I'd expected ("From Small Things (Big Things One Day Come)," "Dear Dad," and "Me and the Boys"). 

Many of the other songs were performed by Rockpile. In fact, this is much like a typically energetic Rockpile concert recording, except without any of the songs sung by Nick Lowe.

The concert is entirely unreleased. The sound quality is up to the usual BBC concert standards.

This album is 47 minutes long.

01 talk (Dave Edmunds)
02 Crawlin' from the Wreckage (Dave Edmunds)
03 Dear Dad (Dave Edmunds)
04 Your True Love (Dave Edmunds)
05 talk (Dave Edmunds)
06 Nobody (Dave Edmunds)
07 talk (Dave Edmunds)
08 From Small Things [Big Things One Day Come] (Dave Edmunds)
09 talk (Dave Edmunds)
10 Blue Moon of Kentucky (Dave Edmunds)
11 Girls Talk (Dave Edmunds)
12 talk (Dave Edmunds)
13 Queen of Hearts (Dave Edmunds)
14 talk (Dave Edmunds)
15 It's My Own Business (Dave Edmunds)
16 talk (Dave Edmunds)
17 I Hear You Knocking (Dave Edmunds)
18 Ju Ju Man (Dave Edmunds)
19 talk (Dave Edmunds)
20 Bama Lama Bama Loo (Dave Edmunds)
21 Me and the Boys (Dave Edmunds)
22 Down Down Down (Dave Edmunds)

https://www.upload.ee/files/16531395/DVEDMNDS1982BBSssonsVlum1BBRckHurUnclSmsHllMA__11-21-1982_atse.zip.html

The cover photo is from a concert at the Capitol Theater in Passaic, New Jersey, on May 15, 1982.

1 comment:

  1. Thanks for this! Great post Rockpile band too, you can't go wrong with Micky Gee, John David, Geraint Watkins and Dave Charles!

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