The Impossible Bird

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The Impossible Bird
Impossible-bird-nick-lowe.jpg
Studio album by
Nick Lowe
Released29 November 1994 (1994-11-29)
Studio
  • The Turk's Head Function Room (Winchester Hall), St. Margarets, Twickenham, Middlesex
  • The Old Cinema (Broadvale Centre), Brentford, Middlesex
  • The Bonaparte Rooms, St. Margaret's, Twickenham, Middlesex
Genre Country rock [1]
Length40:12
Label
Producer
Nick Lowe chronology
Party of One
(1990)		The Impossible Bird
(1994)		 Dig My Mood
(1998)

The Impossible Bird is an album by British singer-songwriter Nick Lowe. Produced by Lowe and Neil Brockbank, it was released in the United Kingdom in 1994 on Demon Records and elsewhere by Upstart Records. [2]

Contents

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svg [3]
Chicago Tribune Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svg [4]
Entertainment Weekly B [5]
The Guardian Star full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [6]
The Philadelphia Inquirer Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svg [7]
Q Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [8]

In a contemporary review of The Impossible Bird, Rolling Stone critic Paul Evans said that the album showed Lowe "in excellent form" with songs that "demonstrate a prodigious productivity and an emotional realism that ranges from heartbreak... to a well-earned bittersweet humor". [9] People called it a "high point" for Lowe, [10] while Los Angeles Times critic Mike Boehm wrote: "The only real impossibility on this album lies in trying to resist the gently seductive pop charms of the crafty old bird who made it." [11] Less receptive was Robert Christgau of The Village Voice , who merely gave the album a "neither" rating. [12]

Track listing

All tracks are written by Nick Lowe, unless otherwise noted.

No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Soulful Wind" 3:01
2."The Beast in Me" 2:27
3."True Love Travels on a Gravel Road"
3:35
4."Trail of Tears"
3:25
5."Shelley My Love" 3:12
6."Where's My Everything?" 2:40
7."12-Step Program (To Quit You Babe)" 3:11
8."Lover Don't Go" 4:03
9."Drive-Thru Man" 2:42
10."Withered on the Vine" 3:22
11."I Live on a Battlefield"
3:23
12."14 Days" 2:58
13."I'll Be There"
2:13

Personnel


Production

Notes

  1. ↑ Bruno, Franklin (February 1995). "Nick Lowe: The Impossible Bird". CMJ New Music Monthly . No. 18. p. 38. Retrieved 28 May 2020.
  2. ↑ "Nick Lowe, The Impossible Bird" . Retrieved 3 December 2016.
  3. ↑ Erlewine, Stephen Thomas. "The Impossible Bird – Nick Lowe". AllMusic . Retrieved 19 July 2016.
  4. ↑ Caro, Mark (15 December 1994). "Nick Lowe: The Impossible Bird (Upstart)". Chicago Tribune . Retrieved 28 May 2020.
  5. ↑ Cannon, Bob (2 December 1994). "The Impossible Bird". Entertainment Weekly . Retrieved 24 May 2017.
  6. ↑ Sullivan, Caroline (18 November 1994). "Nick Lowe: The Impossible Bird (Demon)". The Guardian .
  7. ↑ DeLuca, Dan (4 December 1994). "Nick Lowe: The Impossible Bird (Upstart)". The Philadelphia Inquirer .
  8. ↑ "Nick Lowe: The Impossible Bird". Q . No. 100. January 1995. p. 257.
  9. ↑ Evans, Paul (29 December 1994). "Nick Lowe: The Impossible Bird". Rolling Stone . p. 190. Archived from the original on 30 September 2007. Retrieved 4 September 2007.
  10. ↑ "Picks and Pans Review: The Impossible Bird". People . 23 January 1995. Retrieved 24 May 2017.
  11. ↑ Boehm, Mike (8 December 1994). "Nick Lowe 'The Impossible Bird' Upstart". Los Angeles Times . Retrieved 24 May 2017.
  12. ↑ Christgau, Robert (2000). "Nick Lowe: The Impossible Bird". Christgau's Consumer Guide: Albums of the '90s. St. Martin's Griffin. ISBN   0-312-24560-2 . Retrieved 28 May 2020.
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