Nick Lowe - Impossible Bird

Nick Lowe
Impossible Bird 
Yep Rock 2634R Remastered re-issue 

Lowe's 1994 The Impossible Bird is a low-key, easy-going album which has a lot more to do with 1956 country music than with his '70s punk roots. Nonetheless the 13 songs--10 Lowe originals and three country chestnuts--are marked by the sort of no-frills arrangements and unpretentious passion that made pub-rock so special in the first place. When Lowe sings a ballad such as "The Beast in Me," "Withered on the Vine," and "Lover Don't Go," the arrangements are so minimalist--just a hint of guitar and drums behind the organ--that the song lives or dies by the vocal. Fortunately, Lowe pulls off the difficult trick of sounding lonely and desperate without sounding self-pitying. Whether it's a tongue-in-cheek rocker such as "12-Step Program (To Quit You Babe)" or one of the many ballads, Lowe hits the mark. The 2021 reissue of The Impossible Bird is newly remastered from the original tapes.
 
Tracks are;

Soulful Wind 
The Beast in Me 
True Love Travels on a Gravel Road 
Trail of Tears 
Shelley My Love 
WHere's My Everything? 
12-Step Program (To Quit You Babe) 
Lover Don't Go 
Drive-Thru Man 
Withered on the Vine 
I Love on a Battlefield 
14 Days 
I'll Be There 

Download included! 

NEW SEALED re-issue w/ download