Convincer

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List Price: £14.99 (GBP)
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  • Lowest Collectible Price: £24.99
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  • Artist : Nick Lowe
  • Binding : Audio CD
  • EAN : 0634457202726
  • Label : Yep Roc
  • Manufacturer : Yep Roc
  • Number Of Discs : 1
  • Package Dimensions : 0.54 inches (Height) x 5.55 inches (Length) x 0.18 pounds (Weight) x 4.97 inches (Width)
  • Package Quantity : 1
  • Product Group : Music
  • Publisher : Yep Roc
  • Release Date : 2001-09-11
  • SKU : FEB11D24-210497
  • Studio : Yep Roc
  • UPC : 634457202726

The Convincer is a welcome return from Nick Lowe. Perhaps best known for his late-70s work with Brinsley Schwarz such as "(What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace, Love and Understanding" and as one of the more raffish denizens of the pub-rock scene, Nick Lowe is a long-established purveyor and distiller of an adult blend of country, R&B and MOR. Though The Convincer features covers of Johnny Rivers' "Poor Side of Town" and the ballad "Only a Fool Breaks His Own Heart", this is all self-penned, continuing in the vein of 1998's Dig My Mood. On the opener "Homewrecker", with its broody and distant roll of slide guitar, Lowe comes on like a cuckolded Elvis. "Cupid Must Be Angry", meanwhile, melds epic MOR with raggedly glorious country and western. "Lately I've Let Things Slide" is also excellent, a vivid study of a man gone to seed, searching his laundry basket for the cleanest shirt and typical of The Convincer--lonesome melancholia tempered by a sly and knowingly intelligent lyrical sensibility. --David Stubbs

- Amazon.co.uk Review

Tracks:

  • Disc 1

    • 1: Homewrecker
    • 2: Only A Fool Breaks His Own Heart
    • 3: Lately I've Let Things Slide
    • 4: She's Got Soul
    • 5: Cupid Must Be Angry
    • 6: Indian Queens
    • 7: Poor Side Of Town
    • 8: I'm A Mess
    • 9: Between Dark And Dawn
    • 10: Bygones (Won't Go)
    • 11: Has She Got A Friend?
    • 12: Let's Stay In And Make Love

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