Get It by Dave Edmunds

Get It, Dave Edmunds's third album, came out on Swan Song in April 1977, and the Welsh pub rock hero sounds like a man locked in a room with a crate of old rock and roll 45s and no plans to leave. Some of it was cut with the first, stripped-down trio version of Rockpile, Edmunds with Nick Lowe and Terry Williams, while other tracks, Lowe's "I Knew the Bride" and "Little Darlin'" among them, Edmunds recorded on his own.

The sessions ran six weeks and threw off B-sides too, including the Edmunds-Lowe tune "As Lovers Do". A couple of tracks are older still: "Ju Ju Man" dates from 1975, and "My Baby Left Me" goes back to 1969, with Love Sculpture's Mickey Gee, John Williams and Terry Williams behind him. It all hangs together anyway, because Edmunds treats rock and roll as a craft to get exactly right: tight, twangy, bright as a jukebox and not an ounce of flab.

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