Brinsley Schwarz - Brinsley BBC Sessions, Volume 1 (1970-1971)

Brinsley Schwarz is mainly known as the band Nick Lowe was in during the first half of the 1970s. They're a seriously underestimated band, but their music still has a core group of fans. Thanks to that continued interest, two archival albums of the band performing for the BBC have been released. However, the band played for the BBC so often that I found enough material for three albums.

The band put out their first album in 1970, and began performing for the BBC at the same time. Strangely though, the two official BBC albums I mentioned above missed most of their early BBC appearances. Only three of the songs here are officially released. (The first two come from an appearance on the German TV Show "Beat Club" but the rest are from the BBC.)

For the most part, the sound quality here is very good, despite this mostly being unreleased material. The one exception is "Love Song,"which just quite didn't make it cut. I've included it as a bonus track instead.

Because Brinsley Schwarz isn't that widely known, their bootlegs are hard to track down. This includes some exceedingly rare performances. Note especially "Seymour, I Love You." This song was never officially released. I didn't put it on the band's stray tracks albums because it's just a decent instrumental. The song was longer, but there was some damage to the recording near the end, so I have do edit it down. The missing part was fairly repetitive and without any soloing, so I think the cut makes it stronger.

This album is 47 minutes long, not including the bonus track.

01 Ebury Down (Brinsley Schwarz)
02 Ballad of a Has-Been Beauty Queen (Brinsley Schwarz)
03 Seymour, I Love You [Instrumental] [Edit] (Brinsley Schwarz)
04 Funk Angel (Brinsley Schwarz)
05 The Slow One (Brinsley Schwarz)
06 Country Girl (Brinsley Schwarz)
07 Dry Land - Unknown Number (Brinsley Schwarz)
08 Egypt (Brinsley Schwarz)
09 Rockin' Chair (Brinsley Schwarz)
10 Range War (Brinsley Schwarz)

Love Song (Brinsley Schwarz)

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It's really damn hard finding good color photos of this band. The good news is that I found one for the cover here. The bad news is that it only clearly shows Nick Lowe and Ian Gomm (with the ginger hair). Also, I don't know when it was taken, although I do know it's from the Newlands Tavern in London.