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F. Scott Fitzgerald’s oft-quoted assertion that there are no second acts in American life may hold water on this side of the pond, but it doesn’t apply to the Welsh, at least not to Cardiff-born Andy Fairweather Low. During the course of the last four decades, the 57-year-old writer/singer/musician has be-bopped and hollered his way through three distinct acts—teen idol, solo artist in the ’70s and in-demand hired gun. Now Low’s fourth act is beginning with the release of Sweet Soulful Music (Proper American Recordings), the first album to come out under his own name since 1980’s Mega-Shebang.

Working with legendary producer Glyn Johns, whose knack for delivering musical and sonic authenticity was honed while he engineered the Beatles and the Stones, Low has opted for stripped-down settings featuring just his guitar, the bass of Dave Bronze (Robin Trower, Procol Harum, Clapton) and the drumming of Henry Spinetti (Clapton, Harrison, Paul McCartney, Roger Daltrey), with John "Rabbit" Bundrick (the Who, Pete Townshend, Bob Marley) adding piano to two tracks. Bundrick played on La Booga Rooga and Be Bop ’n’ Holla, both of which were produced by Johns, while Spinetti appeared on the latter LP, so these sessions occasioned a reunion of hale fellows, well met.

As with this trio of cult classics (finally released on CD in 2004 by Edsel as the set Wide-Eyed and Legless: The A&M Recordings), Sweet Soulful Music throbs with a distinctly human vitality, its 13 original songs by turns playful and plaintive (in the manner of Dylan’s latter-day masterpiece, Love and Theft), as the artist confronts those matters of life and death that tend to increasingly preoccupy one who has been on the planet for more than half a century.

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Tracks:
One More Rocket	Donwload	Lyrics
Hymn 4 My Soul	Donwload	Lyrics
What'd You Take Me to Be	Donwload	Lyrics
Ashes and Diamonds	Donwload	Lyrics
Bible Black Starless Sky	Donwload	Lyrics
Don't Stand	Donwload	Lyrics
Life Ain't No Competition	Donwload	Lyrics
Zazzy#	Donwload	Lyrics
Low Rider	Donwload	Lyrics
Unbroken Love	Donwload	Lyrics
I Don't Need	Donwload	Lyrics
Sweet Soulful Music	Donwload	Lyrics
Life Is Good	Donwload	Lyrics
When I Grow Too Old [*]	Donwload	Lyrics