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    Songs We Love: Nick Lowe, 'Walk On By'

    Lowe's lived-in baritone is an ideal vehicle for this unreleased country nugget. All six of the albums that the new-wave and power-pop pioneer cut between 1982 and 1990 will be reissued this summer.
    by Jim Allen May 25, 2017 3 minutes

    has always been something of a prankster. The guy who called his first album and once notoriously rhymed "Rick Astley" with "ghastly" always loved to give people's expectations a bit of a tweak. So in retrospect it's not surprising that his 1984 album featured only one actual country tune, a cover of the Faron Young hit "Live Fast, Love Hard, Die Young," buried at the end of the LP's second side.," appended to the album on the occasion of its reissue, proves there was more country that got left on the studio floor.

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