{"id":793387,"date":"2019-02-25T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-02-25T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=797626"},"modified":"2019-02-25T08:00:00","modified_gmt":"2019-02-25T15:00:00","slug":"hear-nick-lowes-lovelorn-new-song-with-los-straitjackets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/hear-nick-lowes-lovelorn-new-song-with-los-straitjackets\/","title":{"rendered":"Hear Nick Lowe\u2019s Lovelorn New Song With Los Straitjackets"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\u201cThat\u2019s what\u2019s really cool about a guy like Nick, that he\u2019d agree to something like this,\u201d Los Straitjackets guitarist Eddie Angel told Rolling Stone<\/em> last year of the masked instrumental rockers\u2019 ongoing collaboration with veteran singer-songwriter Nick Lowe<\/a>. \u201cWe had nothing to lose. But he did: his reputation!\u201d<\/p>\n

Apparently Lowe is comfortable with the risk. In May, he\u2019ll follow up a 2018 EP<\/a> featuring Los Straitjackets with another four-song release on which he\u2019s backed by the Nashville outfit, known for their Mexican-wrestling\u2013style headwear. Love Starvation \/ Trombone<\/em> will include three new Lowe songs, as well as a cover of Sammy Turner\u2019s Phil Spector\u2013produced 1960 single \u201cRaincoat in the River.\u201d Above, you can hear opening track \u201cLove Starvation,\u201d a peppy-sounding old-school rock song that paints a bleak lyrical picture of romantic fallout. \u201cI\u2019ll tell you something \u2019bout love starvation \u2014 it\u2019s like a prison in your mind you\u2019re locked up in,\u201d Lowe sings. \u201cDisappointment, desperation, your two old friends.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe had just finished recording the last EP and I was sitting around the hotel, killing time before the flight home and I came up with the idea for \u2018Love Starvation,’\u201d Lowe said of the song in a statement. \u201cI knew it was perfect for the Straitjackets, so it was the impetus for going back in the studio the next time we got together to tour.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Straitjackets definitely influenced these new songs,\u201d he adds. \u201c\u2018Love Starvation\u2019 was written very specifically with them in mind. It has a kind of Ritchie Valens feel to it that I thought might suit them. It\u2019s funny, that song could\u2019ve been a Rockpile<\/a> song. But in a way, I don\u2019t think I was good enough to write a song like that back then. It\u2019s a very pro little number. It all flows and works. It sounds like old stuff, but I\u2019m just better at doing it now.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cNick came in with such a great song and I really wanted to come up with the right part,\u201d Eddie Angel writes. \u201cIn the end, I was trying to channel a jam session between Trini Lopez and Reggie Young.\u201d<\/p>\n

Lowe and the Straitjackets first teamed up in 2012, at the 15th anniversary gig for their shared label, Yep Roc.<\/p>\n

\u201cApart from being a fantastic rock \u2018n\u2019 roll band, they know how to play tons of different styles really well,\u201d Lowe writes of his collaborators. \u201cThey can knock you out a version of Bacharach & David\u2019s \u2018The Look of Love\u2019 with no trouble at all. Plus, we get on with each other really well. And that makes the music work. This is a collaboration. They\u2019re in no way my backing band. At first, they very kindly started learning up my records, note for note. I told them, \u2018Don\u2019t do that. Just learn the chords and we\u2019ll play them together so it sounds as natural as we can make it.\u2019 Rather than doing some kind of tribute band kind of act, you know? And that\u2019s when it started being fun and click into gear.\u201d<\/p>\n

Love Starvation \/ Trombone<\/em> is out May 17th from Yep Roc. Los Straitjackets will back Lowe on the next set of dates on his ongoing Quality Rock & Roll Revue.<\/p>\n

Nick Lowe\u2019s Quality Rock & Roll Revue Starring Los Straitjackets Tour Dates<\/strong><\/p>\n

April 3 \u2013 Atlanta, GA @ The Variety
April 5 \u2013 Asheville, NC @ Orange Peel
April 6 \u2013 Saxapahaw, NC @ Haw River Ballroom
April 7 \u2013\u00a0 Washington, DC @ The Hamilton
April 9 \u2013 Philadelphia, PA @ Ardmore Music Hall
April 11 \u2013 Boston, MA @ The Wilbur
April 12 \u2013 Tarrytown, NY @ Tarrytown Music Hall
April 13 \u2013 New York, NY @ The Bowery Ballroom
April 14 \u2013 Infinity Music Hall and Bistro \u2013 Hartford, CT<\/p>\n

via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cThat\u2019s what\u2019s really cool about a guy like Nick, that he\u2019d agree to something like this,\u201d Los Straitjackets guitarist Eddie Angel told Rolling Stone last year of the masked instrumental rockers\u2019 ongoing collaboration with veteran singer-songwriter Nick Lowe. \u201cWe had nothing to lose. But he did: his reputation!\u201d Apparently Lowe is comfortable with the risk. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-793387","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-14 14:54:36","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/793387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=793387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/793387\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=793387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=793387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=793387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}