Best of Dave Edmunds

by Dave Edmunds

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Comprised of material taken from Dave Edmunds' stint on Led Zeppelin's Swan Song label, BEST OF DAVE EDMUNDS is a solid representation of an artist who managed to balance a love of '50s and '60s rock & roll with a perfectly hewn contemporary pop sensibility. Blessed with a twangy guitar and a soulful croon, Edmund here covers infectious-sounding material by friends like Graham Parker ("Crawling From the Wreckage"), Elvis Costello ("Girls Talk"), and Nick Lowe ("I Knew the Bride"). More than anything, Edmunds channels the carefree teenage spirit of rockabilly and vintage country, whether on songs that deal with leaving the work week behind ("Here Comes The Weekend," "Almost Saturday Night") or on tracks about fast cars by way of George Jones ("The Race Is On," with the Stray Cats).