Sometimes the Brits can rock it like it’s Country!
Albert Lee was invited by Dave Edmunds on "Sweet Little Lisa" in 1979, for studio sessions.
Check the the faces of Edmunds & fellow Rockpile members (Billy Bremner, Terry Williams, Nick Lowe) Phil Lynott, Huey Lewis, Graham Parker were there too!
Wow early stuff! I think I came to Hiatt late on, through Nick Lowe and then Ry Cooder and others, his own band with Southern guitar legend Sonny Landreth in his band. I heard Memphis In The Meantime (still a favourite song!) and was struck! I guess this was late eighties early nineties. Then his songs began showing on other's albums by folk like Bonnie Raitt (Nick of Time) and I thought hang on a cotton picking minute! Check out 'Bring The Family’(87) and Stolen Moments (92?) and Little Village too. He has known terrible family tragedy and sobered up early on which I understand completely. Not everything always rang with me but when he collaborated and the guitarists he worked with and the songwriting, the SONGWRITING, I was soon a fan, this looks really interesting roots of his writing no less and in FLAC files too!
Its not that I missed it . . . . . . (honest) . . . . . . its just that so much seems to have been going on that I forgot to mention that this is the BEST Little Village concert I have heard in a long time?! Several favourite songs from Ry and John from She Runs Hot, to Crazy About an Automobile (one of the best versions ever recorded IMHO) and Borderline, Memphis and Lil Sister all a resounding success here. You know how there are legendary live recordings that go down in history and this is destined to become one of those. It is simply SUPERB!
All just to say this is my default go to sound on the virtual record deck. This IS my playlist of the month!