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Dave Edmunds - Tracks On Wax 4

Track listing:
  1. Trouble Boys 3:02
  2. Never Been In Love 2:28
  3. Not A Woman, Not A Child 3:21
  4. Television 3:19
  5. What Looks Best On You 2:26
  6. Readers Wives 3:11
  7. Deborah 2:38
  8. Thread Your Needle 3:27
  9. A.1. On The Jukebox 3:15
  10. It's My Own Business 3:56
  11. Heart Of The City 3:03

Notes


Tracks on Wax 4 is the first official Rockpile collaboration and its hard-driving, unified sounds make it one of Dave Edmunds' very best records. Like Get It, Tracks on Wax 4 relies primarily on originals and contemporary pub rock songs, leaving behind the classic oldies; the older songs on the record are obscurities like Chuck Berry's "It's My Own Business" and Jan & Dean's "Thread Your Needle." Built on such fine songs as the rockabilly tinged "Trouble Boys," the Everly-esque "Never Been in Love," "Television," "Readers Wives," and "Deborah," Tracks on Wax 4 is a tight, snappy rock & roll record that is only derailed by a version of Nick Lowe's classic "Heart of the City," where Lowe's original vocal is stripped away and replaced by a new take by Edmunds. Only then does the record recall Edmunds' perfectionist nature.