Without Love (Nick Lowe song)

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"Without Love"
Song by Nick Lowe
from the album Labour of Lust
Released1979 (1979)
Genre Country
Songwriter(s) Nick Lowe
Audio
"Without Love" on YouTube

"Without Love" is a song by Nick Lowe from his 1979 studio album Labour of Lust . [1] [2]

Contents

Johnny Cash version

"Without Love"
Single by Johnny Cash
from the album Rockabilly Blues
B-side "It Ain't Nothing New Babe"
ReleasedJanuary 1981 (1981-01) [3] [4]
Genre Country
Label Columbia 11-11424
Songwriter(s) Nick Lowe
Producer(s) Nick Lowe [5]
Johnny Cash singles chronology
"The Last Time"
(1980)
"Without Love"
(1981)
"The Baron"
(1981)
Audio
"Without Love" on YouTube

Johnny Cash covered the song on his 1980 studio album Rockabilly Blues . [6] Nick Lowe himself produced the recording [5] and played on it together with Dave Edmunds. [6]

Released in January 1981 as a single (Columbia 11-11424, with "It Ain't Nothing New Babe" on the opposite side), [3] [4] Cash's version reached number 78 on U.S. Billboard 's country chart for the week of February 14, 1981. [7] [8] [2]

Track listing

7" single (Columbia 11-11424, 1981) [9] [3] [4] [5]
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Without Love" N. Lowe 2:26
2."It Ain't Nothing New Babe" B. J. Shaver 4:02

Charts

Chart (1981)Peak
position
US Hot Country Songs ( Billboard ) [10] 78

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References

  1. "Nick Lowe - Labour Of Lust | Releases". Discogs . Retrieved 2021-10-09.
  2. 1 2 Banister, C. Eric (2014-08-01). Johnny Cash FAQ: All That's Left to Know About the Man in Black. Rowman & Littlefield. p. 287. ISBN   978-1-61713-609-2. While touring the UK in late 1979, Cash recorded Lowe's "Without Love," which had appeared on Lowe's second album, Labour of Lust, released that year. Backed by Rockpile, plus Bob Wootton, Cash sounds confident, bouncing through the melody.
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