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"...I Knew The Bride When She Used To Rock 'n' Roll..."
It feels like I've been
waiting for this 5CD mini box set peach-a-rooney for years precisely because it
contains many of my favourite Dave Edmunds albums – least not all is 1977's
criminally forgotten "Get It" and the equally cool 1978 set
"Tracks On Wax 4".
There's something about Dave
Edmunds Rock 'n' Roll fixation throughout the whole of the Seventies that I've
always loved. He rocked and his records were fun listens too. But what's
perhaps forgotten is that his LPs mixed in his 50ts and 60ts obsessions with
the ‘New Wave’ songwriting genius of Rockpile's Nick Lowe and Billy Bremner - not
to mention the acidic tongues of Elvis Costello and Graham Parker. The result
was albums - that although retro in feel and sound - were also somehow
incredibly contemporary.
Oddly though - availability
has always been an issue. Outside of Rhino's superb 1993 2CD
"Anthology" career-overview – Remasters of his primo full-album
catalogue have remained off the general CD availability radar until now. Well
here at last is a salty 5CD set to sort out my DE needs – and it’s a humdinger
too containing both "Get It", "Tracks On Wax 4" and much
more. Here are the 'Worn Out Suits & Brand New Pockets'...
UK released September 2015 –
"Original Album Series" by DAVE EDMUNDS (including LOVE SCULPTURE) on
Parlophone/Warners/Swan Song 0081227952006 (Barcode same number) is a 5CD mini
Box set containing the "Get It" album (Disc 2) that plays out as
follows:
Disc 2 (31:44 minutes):
1. Get Out Of Denver [Bob
Seger cover]
2. I Knew The Bride [Nick
Lowe cover]
3. Back To School Days
[Graham Parker cover]
4. Here Comes The Weekend
[Dave Edmunds & Nick Lowe song]
5. Worn Out Suits, Brand New
Pockets [Dave Edmunds song]
6. Where Or When [1937
Rodgers & Hart song – Roy Heatherton & Mitzi Green cover]
7. Ju Ju Man [Jim Ford
cover] – [Side 2]
8. Git It [Bob Kelly song –
Gene Vincent & His Blue Caps cover]
9. Let's Talk About Us [Otis
Blackwell song – Jerry Lee Lewis cover]
10. Hey Good Lookin' [Hank
Williams cover]
11. What Did I Do Last
Night? [Nick Lowe song]
12. Little Darlin' [Dave
Edmunds & Nick Lowe song]
13. My Baby Left Me [Arthur
Crudup song – Elvis Presley cover]
Tracks 1 to 13 are the album
"Get It" – released April 1977 in the UK on Swan Song SSK 59404 and
in the USA on Swan Song SS 8418.
Everyone knows the visual
story with these "Original Album Series" Mini 5CD Box sets – five
single card sleeves with the original artwork front and rear – look nice but
you can’t read the details. At least the CDs themselves have the track credits
on each. It doesn’t say who remastered the four Swan Song albums or indeed if
they’ve been even been redone (the Love Sculpture CD is the 1999 EMI Remaster)
– I doubt it. The sound is great but there's no doubt in my mind that the Rhino
Remasters of 1993 on the "Anthology" 2CD set are infinitely better.
Having said that - as the bulk of these albums are late 70ts and early 80s
recordings – the audio was on the money anyway – so for most casual listeners
these CDs will sound just dandy.
The "Get It" album
represents his most accessible and famous period - the late 70ts. Opening with
a killer cover of "Get Out Of Denver" from Bob Seger's forgotten 1974
album "Seven/Contrasts" on Capitol Records - it was just the kind of
thrashing Chuck Berry rocker Edmunds loved - though I'd have to say that my
heart is with the wicked Seger original. Songwriting genius rears it's
lyrically fab head in the utterly brilliant "I Knew The Bride (When She
Used To Rock 'n' Roll)" - a genius rocker from Nick Lowe. "He's
shaking hands with relatives with a glassy look in his eye...and his shirt and
tie is real nice...but I can remember a time when she wouldn't have looked at
him twice..." Lowe finally put out his take on "The Rose Of
England" in 1986.
More New Wave Rockabilly
comes with Graham Parker's wicked good "Back To Schooldays" where
Dave gives it some Stray Cats arrangement. "Here Comes The Weekend"
is a co-write between Edmunds and Nick Lowe and is superb mixture of The Everly
Brothers harmonies meets Eddie Cochran's guitar (it was an obvious single).
Other covers include Jim Ford's rocker "Ju Ju Man", the frantic Rock
'n' Roll of "Let's Talk About Us" - an Otis Blackwell winner made
famous by Jerry Lee Lewis and sweet Gene Vincent's ooh-bop "Git It" -
a song the stunning Steve Gibbons regularly played live. It ends on a
back-to-basics Scotty Moore and Bill Black Rockabilly version of "That's
Alright" - the Arthur Crudup song Elvis made famous in 1956.
Great stuff from start to
finish...
