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In "Ska 67" erweist sich der fast 75-Jährige als ernsthafte Madness-Konkurrenz, und signalisiert dabei lyrisch sein Durchhaltevermögen: "Nobody gets to turn my lamp down low" - auch hier wieder mit wehmütiger Evergreen-Anleihe! You don’t have to pay, you know, you can have itfor nothing, just come down and do something, it will be good to see you’, Kingsley said. He hadn’t planned to make another album, but the lockdown had created the situation that he says left him thinking, “Why not? Every song on the album was written by Andy and oozes with the blues and gospel style that he has made his own. Another oddity here is the way Andy Fairweather Low slips and slides seamlessly between genres without jarring styles; which is why the Skiffle beat of Too Many Friends still works although juxtaposed between the punchy swing of Keep Your Faith and the Bluebeat/Lovers Rock melody that pervades through Looking Down and all sound like close relations courtesy of Andy Fairweather Low’s singing.

Never a huge singles collector I also bought Andy Fairweather Low’s 45, Wide Eyed and Legless; and that’s probably where our paths ceased to cross until now. The only thing I can’t stand is the drum machine that I use, so this time, I thought, ‘I’ll tell you what, I’ll go to Rockfield, and I’ll do my demos but at a better level, better technical level, and with a proper drummer’. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. In härterer Gangart schüttelt Low einen weiteren Ohrwurm aus dem Ärmel - sollte seinen Vorbilden, jenen Londoner Rolling Stones, noch jemals solch eine Spätsingle gelingen - eine No. Ein weiterer waffenscheinpflichtiger Groove wird mit einem Zungenbrecher gekoppelt: "You can vip-vop and Be-Bop and shout Bam-a-lam", heißt es in "Looking Down", und es brennt die Hütte.which must mean ‘something’ and that was Got Me a Party which shuffles along like a steam train; and the irony laden story itself typifies the ‘fun, fun, fun’ spirit of the whole album … so (for today anyway) this is my Favourite Song.

Andy is without one of the greatest artists this country has ever produced from those early years with Amen Corner, through touring the world with Eric Clapton and Roger Waters. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice.Beavis pachtet hier gleich den Rhythmus, bei dem jeder mit muss - und Andy erweitert seine schier unnachahmliche Vokalkunst wie so oft hier mit eigenen Chorstimmen.

Fairweather Low comes at you straight out of the gates with Waiting On The Up; a neat and tidy song about ‘still waiting for success’ which I presume to be ‘tongue in cheek’ and the poppy gait reminds me of any or all Nick Lowe songs; but with the addition of Andy’s distinctive vocals which haven’t changed a tiny bit since the mid 60’s. Genauer gesagt, man konnte sich jahrelang ans Verwöhnen gewöhnen, wenn AFL auf seinem letzten Studiowerk ZONE-O-TONE Nick Pentelows Sax und Klarinette, Paul Carracks Hammond, Dave Bronzes elastischen Contra-Bass und dazu einen Bläsersatz an den Start brachte, mit Sousaphone, Trompete, Euphonium und Posaune. The solo albums like the classic Spider Jiving, the incredible out put of superb songs, to these days with his own band The Low Riders.I wish I had the vocabulary to describe Andy Fairweather Low’s singing style; but everything I try to use sounds ‘wrong’ and ‘critical’ …. Sometimes when I review albums I feel obliged to dance around the commerciality of what’s on offer; but here Andy Fairweather Low goes out of his way to create massive melodies that are eminently danceable and add them to uber-hooks and monster riffs on songs that need to be listened to as there are stories in there that will appeal to grown ups the world over. There are sort of a lot of soulful and gospel-tinged songs, mind you, there’s a bit of blues, there’s a bit of ska, there’s a bit of country, there’s a bit of everything.

I was due to be at the studio with another band when Andy was actually recording this fabulous album.fun, fun, fun; albeit with an occasional ‘message’ tucked away inside the lyrics; which is where Keep Your Faith, Looking Down and probably the dark around the edges, Somebody Wants My Soul come into play; yet you can still shimmy to them while doing the ironing (trust me on this *wink*). When I was about 14 I once bought an LP which had Amen Corner on one side and The Small Faces on the other and as my Record Collection was in its infancy, I played the Hell out of it!