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Artist: Dave Edmunds & Love Sculpture
Label: EMI Int'l
Category: Music

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Format: Import
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1

UPC: 724352692620
EAN: 0724352692620
ASIN: B00004T2RP

Release Date: 2000-06-01

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Tracks:

Wang-Dang-Doodle - Love Sculpture
Stumble - Love Sculpture
Come Back Baby - Love Sculpture
Shake Your Hips - Love Sculpture
3 O'Clock Blues - Love Sculpture
Summertime - Love Sculpture
Sabre Dance [Edit] - Love Sculpture
Think of Love - Love Sculpture
Farandole - Love Sculpture
Seagull - Love Sculpture
In the Land of the Few - Love Sculpture
People People - Love Sculpture
You Can't Catch Me - Love Sculpture
I Hear You Knockin' - Dave Edmunds
Black Bill - Dave Edmunds
I'm Comin' Home - Dave Edmunds
Country Roll - Dave Edmunds
Blue Monday - Dave Edmunds
I'll Get Along - Dave Edmunds
Down Down Down - Dave Edmunds
It Ain't Easy - Dave Edmunds
Promised Land - Dave Edmunds
Hell of a Pain - Dave Edmunds
Sweet Little Rock & Roller - Dave Edmunds

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Album Description

'Best Of' for 60s British blues-rock band featuring Dave Edmunds on guitar. 24 digitally remastered tracks including their hit 'Sabre Dance'. 2000 release. Standard jewel case.

Customer Reviews:

Pre - "Rockpile" Edmunds .......2004-07-24

This German import compiles some of the Welsh rocker's earliest recordings: with Love Sculpture, '68-'69, and other solo stuff from his pre-Lowe/Rockpile days ('70-'71.) "Digitally Remastered" is no joke; I've got all of these tracks on vinyl and the sound quality on this disc is much better (especially "Blue Monday!)

The Love Sculpture stuff flips between electric-bluesy and flower child la-la-la, with the standouts being Edmunds' guitar rave-ups of Bizet's "Farandole" and Khatchaturian's "Sabre Dance" (the edited version - thank you! - at eleven minutes the full track is a little much.) Freddy King's "The Stumble" does just that, I'm afraid. The fast blues is definitely fast but sounds kind of flashy and amateurish. (So, how many Claptons can there be?) He fares better on the slower "Come Back Baby" (Ray Charles) and has a real nice solo on "Summertime" (yes, THAT "Summertime.") And the handful of sappy hippy-dippy songs are . . . well, after all, it WAS the '60's. (Peace Love Dove!)

The later "solo" tracks have Edmunds finding the straight-up rock 'n roll groove that's served him (and us!) so well throughout his career. A couple of Chuck Berry covers, Fats Domino's "Blue Monday," and some country blues give us a taste of what he would later refine into his signature style. The standouts here are: "It Ain't Easy" (killer!), "Blue Monday" ("Here Comes The Weekend" anyone?), "Down, Down, Down" (Rockpile concert standard), and "I Hear You Knocking" (the perfect pop song?)

I give the collection 4 stars because if you're a real Edmunds fan there are songs here that you simply MUST have. And it's always interesting to see how our faves started out. With this disc you get to hear the seeds that grew into a Rockpile.

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