A BIRD IN THE HAND
IS WORTH
TWO IN THE STREETS
Tracks on Wax 4
is the fourth album
by Welsh rock musician
The record was the first
Edmunds solo effort
to feature
all four members
of the band
Edmunds,
Billy Bremner
who also wrote two
of the album's songs
under the pen name
Billy Murray
Nick Lowe, and Terry Williams.
The album's eighth song,
"Thread Your Needle",
was originally recorded by
the Ohio-based
R&B duo
Dean & Jean
(Welton Young and Brenda Lee Jones).
The album's final song,
"Heart of the City",
was originally recorded by
Nick Lowe
as a Stiff Records single
in 1976.
A live version performed by
Rockpile
was released on
Lowe's album
Jesus of Cool
(also 1978)
and Edmunds used the same
backing track,
but overdubbed his own
lead vocals in place
of Lowe's.
Critical Reception
The Globe and Mail
wrote that
"Edmunds brings a wide range of
historical fifties sounds
to life with amazing precision
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