Chronicles (1968-1984)

Chronicles (1968-1984) Artist: Dave Edmunds
Label: Connoisseur
Category: Music


Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
Format: Import
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1


UPC: 766483707828
EAN: 5015773020921
ASIN: B000006YF9


Release Date: 1994-11-24

Chronicles (1968-1984)


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Tracks:

  1. Sabre Dance - Love Sculpture
  2. You Can't Catch Me - Love Sculpture
  3. I Hear You Knockin'
  4. Down Down Down
  5. Baby I Love You
  6. Born to Be With You
  7. Get Out of Denver
  8. I Knew the Bride (When She Used to Rock & Roll)
  9. Trouble Boys
  10. Girls Talk
  11. Queen of Hearts
  12. Crawling From the Wreckage
  13. Singing the Blues
  14. Baby Ride Easy - Carlene Carter, Dave Edmunds
  15. Almost Saturday Night
  16. Race Is On - Dave Edmunds,
  17. Warmed Over Kisses (Left Over Love)
  18. From Small Things (Big Things One Day Come)
  19. Slipping Away
  20. Something About You

Album Description

1994 retrospective on Connoisseur featuring 20 of the Welsh rocker's best, 1968-1984. Includes 'I Hear You Knocking', 'Baby I Love You', 'Get Out Of Denver', 'I Knew The Bride', 'Girls Talk', 'Queen Of Hearts', 'Baby Ride Easy' (with Carlene Carter) and 'The Race Is On' (with the Stray Cats).

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars The best single CD of Dave's music.......2005-01-14

Dave was a brilliant musician - you might describe him as an electric guitar virtuoso - and a good singer (though some of the early tracks are instrumentals), whose records often reflected his fifties influences, but his music always sounded fresh and exciting.

His first success came with Sabre dance, an incredible cover of an old instrumental that reached the top five in the UK and was quite unlike anything else in the late sixties pop charts. He had no further success until I hear you knocking topped the British charts in 1971 and also became a huge hit in America. This song was originally written and recorded by Smiley Lewis but was also an American hit for Gale Storm. However, Dave Edmunds made the song his own with his high-energy performance. Later in the seventies, Dave had further British success with Girls talk (an Elvis Costello song) and Queen of hearts, an original song that later became a huge American hit for Juice Newton. It is ironic that his biggest success as a recording artist was with a cover version, but that when he did come up with a great original song, it was somebody else who had the American hit. Baby ride easy is a country duet with Carlene Carter that is unlike anything else here.

Some great covers are included in this anthology, often better than the original, including Born to be with you, Singing the blues, Almost Saturday night and The race is on - so there's some rock'n'roll, some blues and some country in there. Bruce Springsteen wrote From small things big things come for Dave to record.

It isn't possible to do justice to Dave's music in a single CD but of those I've looked at, this appears to be the strongest. If you really enjoy high-energy rock'n'roll music, I recommend you pay the extra for the Anthology double CD but of the single CD's I've looked at, this appears to be the strongest.

4 out of 5 stars

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