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“I was going to call the album ‘''Cowboy Outfit''’ because the kind of music on it is country rock, so it suited that. But it’s the same band, Paul Carrack,” (keyboards and brilliant voices), “Martin Belmont on guitar and Bobby Irwin on drums.” | “I was going to call the album ‘''Cowboy Outfit''’ because the kind of music on it is country rock, so it suited that. But it’s the same band, Paul Carrack,” (keyboards and brilliant voices), “Martin Belmont on guitar and Bobby Irwin on drums.” | ||
The single blazing a trail across the West, ‘Half A Boy And Half A Man’’, is already Nick’s most successful 45 since ‘Cruel To Be Kind’ an alarming five years ago, and he’s got his fingers crossed for it. “It’s notoriously hard to get a rock’n’roll record into the charts,” he says, “but it’d be nice to have a bit of a tickle at the charts because it’s an easy one to play live!” | |||
Lowe’s currently overseeing another Paul Carrack album, the successor to ‘82’s ‘''Suburban Voodoo''’, and in a roundabout way that explains why Nick has one song on his LP produced by that old Scullywag Elvis Costello. | |||
“Paul has this great r’n’b croon, and he sounds best when he’s doing songs that aren’t of any consequence lyrically. I can write for him quite convincingly, but I’m not as good at sounding convincing at performing those songs myself. So I wrote this song for him called ‘LAFS (Love At First Sight)’, and we recorded it in a sort of Al Green, Memphis groove, the sort of stuff he was doing in the early seventies. | “Paul has this great r’n’b croon, and he sounds best when he’s doing songs that aren’t of any consequence lyrically. I can write for him quite convincingly, but I’m not as good at sounding convincing at performing those songs myself. So I wrote this song for him called ‘LAFS (Love At First Sight)’, and we recorded it in a sort of Al Green, Memphis groove, the sort of stuff he was doing in the early seventies. | ||
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That probably just shattered all your dreams of becoming a producer … never mind, you can always dream of being a cowboy. | That probably just shattered all your dreams of becoming a producer … never mind, you can always dream of being a cowboy. | ||
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