Classic LP “Labour Of Lust” to be re-issued on Yep Roc Records March 15th.
-Long Lost UK Documentary from 1978 surfaces on YouTube
Out of print for more than 20 years, Nick Lowe’s “Labour Of Lust” album will grace record store shelves again this spring when it finally gets the re-issue treatment it so richly deserves.
The album was recorded with Dave Edmunds, Terry Williams, and Billy Bremner, collectively known as “Rockpile”. Edmunds’s “Repeat When Necessary” was also cut during the same sessions. Both records were released as solo offerings, due to contractual obligations preventing Lowe and Edmunds from being credited on each other’s work.
Originally released in June of 1979, “Labour Of Lust” contains Lowe’s only US hit, “Cruel To Be Kind”. Those familiar with the entire record though, know that it’s also one of the greatest rock and roll albums ever made, which makes it all the more inexplicable as to why it’s been unavailable for so many years.
Sincere kudos to US independent record label YepRoc records for making all this possible. You can pre-order the CD at http://store.yeproc.com/album.php?id=15433 and peruse YepRoc’s amazingly diverse stable of recorded talent.
As if that wasn’t enough, a UK documentary about the recordings of the two albums titled “Born Fighters” has surfaced on YouTube in it’s entirety. Recorded for UK Granada Television and aired only once, it features some terrific footage of Lowe and Edmunds playing acoustics and trading off harmonies. There are also some very rare still photographs and cameo appearances from Graham Parker, Phil Lynott and many others.
The link to part one is http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1V7WubQ1uiY and proves to be just the taster that we all need prior getting our grubby little mitts on Lowe’s fabulous “Labour Of Lust” reissue.