Dig My Mood

Personnel: Nick Lowe (vocals, guitar, bass); Geraint Watkins (guitar, accordion, piano, organ,); Steve Donnelly (guitar); Nick Pentelow (tenor saxophone); Robert Treherne (drums).Recorded at Rak Studios, St. John's Wood, September Sound, Twickenham, The Bonaparte Rooms, St. Margarets, and R.G. Jones Studio, Wimbledon, London, England between June 1996 and July 1997.Nick Lowe spent most of the '70s and '80s as a power-popping, roots-rocking dynamo, turning out album after album of urgent, catchy pop-rock tunes. Beginning with 1990's PARTY OF ONE, Lowe began to loosen his grip on the rock & roll reigns, opting instead for a more introspective, soulful sound that suited his expressive, weathered voice perfectly. DIG MY MOOD takes that approach even further, concentrating on the kind of ballads that sound as if they've existed in the collective unconscious forever.Assisted by most of the same musicians who accompanied him on 1994's fabulous IMPOSSIBLE BIRD, Lowe slips easily into the c