D.E. 7th by Dave Edmunds

D.E. 7th, Dave Edmunds' 1982 album, marked a fresh start on two fronts: a new label deal, with Arista in Britain and Columbia in America after five years on Swan Song, and a new band, since Rockpile had split the year before. The Welshman built it around old Love Sculpture comrades Mickey Gee on guitar and John David on bass, pub rock pianist Geraint Watkins and drummer Dave Charles, a crew that would stick with him for the rest of the decade.

The big coup was a Bruce Springsteen song nobody had heard: "From Small Things (Big Things One Day Come)", an outtake from The River that Springsteen played for Edmunds backstage at Wembley and then posted him on tape. It went out as a single and reached number 28 on the Mainstream Rock chart. Elsewhere Edmunds turns Brian Hyland's "Warmed Over Kisses (Left Over Love)" from a countrypolitan waltz into a rollicking bluegrass romp, and the album became his highest-charting solo record in the States.

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