As part of my big BBC project, I'm still trying to finish off album series a started long ago before posting BBC albums from other musical acts. I already posted a couple of 1980s BBC concerts starring Nick Lowe and Paul Carrack, so I want to finish their BBC stuff off as well. I have a couple of Lowe BBC concerts from the 2000s, but nothing at all from the 1990s. According to setlist.fm, he just wasn't touring much that decade, so maybe that's why the BBC missed him. But to cover the gap, here's a soundboard bootleg of a full concert.
In the 1970s and 80s, Lowe was a rock and roller. But with his 1994 album "The Impossible Bird," his musical style changed, and he's stuck with the new style ever since. Rock critic Jim Farber later commented that this style change "moved him out of the realms of ironic pop and animated rock and into the role of a worldly balladeer, specializing in grave vocals and graceful tunes." So this concert, supporting "The Impossible Bird," finds him at a crossroads, moving into that new style while still playing some more rocking songs from earlier in his career.
This unreleased bootleg only had two problems. One is that the beginning of the first song, "12-Step Program (To Quit You Babe)," was cut off. The other is that there was about a five second section in "Without Love" that sounded muddy and bad. Lowe later released a live album called "Untouched Takeaway." Most of the songs on that were from 2001, but six were from this tour. Luckily, those included versions of those two songs. So I patched in bits from that live album to fix them. That's why those two songs have "[Edit]" in their titles.
Lowe sang most of the songs, but in a couple of songs he let members of his backing band, the Impossible Birds, sing lead.
This album is an hour and 26 minutes long.
01 12-Step Program [To Quit You Babe] [Edit] (Nick Lowe)
02 True Love Travels on a Gravel Road (Nick Lowe)
03 talk (Nick Lowe)
04 Without Love [Edit] (Nick Lowe)
05 Lover Don't Go (Nick Lowe)
06 The Rose of England (Nick Lowe)
07 Trail of Tears (Nick Lowe)
08 Dream Girl (Nick Lowe)
09 talk (Nick Lowe)
10 Cruel to Be Kind (Nick Lowe)
11 Where's My Everything (Nick Lowe)
12 I'm Coming Home (Nick Lowe)
13 Lonely Just like Me (Nick Lowe)
14 talk (Nick Lowe)
15 A Tombstone Every Mile (Nick Lowe)
16 Half a Boy and Half a Man (Nick Lowe)
17 Crying in My Sleep (Nick Lowe)
18 talk (Nick Lowe)
19 Soulful Wind (Nick Lowe)
20 I Knew the Bride [When She Used to Rock and Roll] (Nick Lowe)
21 Bo Bo Ska Diddle Daddle (Nick Lowe)
22 talk (Nick Lowe)
23 Raging Eyes (Nick Lowe)
24 talk (Nick Lowe) (Nick Lowe)
25 Shelley My Love (Nick Lowe)
26 talk (Nick Lowe)
27 Allons Rock and Roll (Nick Lowe)
28 [You're My] Wildest Dream (Nick Lowe)
29 talk (Nick Lowe) (Nick Lowe)
30 If You Ever Want Me by Your Side (Nick Lowe)
31 [What's So Funny 'Bout] Peace, Love and Understanding (Nick Lowe)
https://pixeldrain.com/u/irL4SdhH
alternate:
https://bestfile.io/en/tYf2p4PmUOpQw62/file
The cover photo is from a concert in Brussels, Belgium, on April 7, 1995.
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