Goodbye Nashville Hello Camden Town: a Pub Rock Anthology

Goodbye Nashville Hello Camden Town: a Pub Rock Anthology
Customer Review: Worth it for Unicorn
I saw a lot of those bands at Dingwalls in the seventies and the one that sticks in my mind the most is Unicorn.They had that American thing off really well but with quirky British lyrics.Some very good musicians in those bands,I wonder how many are Postmen,Couriers,Librarians and of course there’s one born again every minute.Deserves to be listened to,preferably in the state that you were in when you first heard them.Don’t try to get into those cheese cloth shirts though,without first having liposuction or at least wearing a training bra.

Customer Review: Goodbye Prog Rock, Hello Pub Rock
`Goodbye Nashville, Hello Camden Town’ is the most comprehensive attempt to create a Pub Rock Anthology to press. The Pub Rock scene was borne of frustration of the excesses of the seventies music scene and specifically prog rock creating rock theatre so isolating its self from its own audience. And so a grass roots movement of musicians playing in pubs re-energised the London music scene and led up to the birth of punk which itself then subverted most of the Pub Rock musicians into becoming `New Wave’ which somehow perfectly described their retro sixties styles.

Originally playing the sort of Country Music today referred to as Americana originally developed by Gram Parson’s era Byrds and The Band crawling out of Dylan’s window. The Pub Rock sound eventually evolved into the tight r’n'b famously peddled by Dr Feelgood. This anthology focuses more on the initial early country sound which would appear to be a commercial decision based on the cost of licensing the later more well known tracks, that Dr Feelgood would have only one track on this is criminal particularly when taking into account of how many times their name is used on the art work and extensive liner notes.

That said it is still a great anthology spot lighting Brinsley Schwarz whose Bassist, Nick Lowe, and manager, Dave Robson, along with Chilli Willi manager, Jake Riviera and a five hundred pound load from Dr Feelgood would start the Stiff record label. Other highlights are the Ian Dury led Kilburn and the Highroads, Punk prototypes Eddie and the Hot Rods and a pre-snooker loopy self parody Chas and Dave.

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