Thursday, 3 May 2018

Dave Edmunds - Repeat When Necessary


Rating: 5/5

Review:
Still a great album


I bought this LP in 1979 and have loved it ever since.  It is Dave Edmunds doing what he does best with the people he does it best with.

This is the classic Rockpile lineup of Edmunds, Nick Lowe, Billy Bremner and Terry Williams, with a couple of guest appearances – most notably a quite astonishingly brilliant guitar solo from Albert Lee on the wonderful Sweet Little Lisa.  There are three more stone-cold classics in Girls Talk, Crawling From The Wreckage and Queen of Hearts and the rest is good stuff, too – although I've never been that keen on Creature From The Black Lagoon.  As an album it's a joy – full of life, driving Rock & Roll beats and great performances from a bunch of very fine musicians.

After all these years, I still play and love Repeat When Necessary.  It's a genuinely great album in my view – and I don’t use the word lightly.  Very warmly recommended.

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