Rockpile - Twangin... 1981

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     I was away from the drawing board (and electricity) for a while, but I am back with another Rockpile album. This was patched together from Dave Edmunds' album Twangin... and Nick Lowe's Nick the Knife. Twangin... was the last time he recorded with the other members of Rockpile: Billy Bremner and Terry Williams, plus Nick plays bass on most of the songs on Dave's record. From Twangin... I used "(I'm Gonna Start) Living Again If It Kills Me", which Edmunds wrote with Lowe and Carlene Carter, "Three Time Loser", which Rockpile used to perform on stage, "It's Been So Long", "Almost Saturday Night" and "I'm Only Human" credited to Lowe and Rockpile as writers. Nick the Knife provided "My Heart Hurts", "Raining Raining", "Ba Doom", "Stick It Where the Sun Don't Shine", "Let Me Kiss You" and "Burning".

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