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One we didn't get to was Nick Lowe's home studio , between Hammersmith and Shepherd's Bush. I got to see it yesterday.
Will Birch , author of No Sleep Till Canvey Island - The Great Pub Rock Revolution (2000) and is working on a biography of Nick Lowe , told me it was at 9, Melrose Terrace. He informed me that ' Nick and his then wife Carlene Carter and her daughter Tiffany lived there for about 2 years. The studio was on the ground floor. Johnny Cash and June Carter Cash visited there in 1979.'
Elvis wrote in the note with the 2004 reissue of Almost Blue -
'Oddly enough my next country music recording was made not in Nashville, but in Shepherd's Bush in West London. My pal (and producer of my first five albums) Nick Lowe could be said to have married into country music aristocracy when he wed Carlene Carter, daughter of June Carter and granddaughter of Mother Maybelle of the legendary Carter Family. While visiting the newlyweds in the last days of 1979, his stepfather-in-law had called a recording session for Christmas day. After a rebellion by the wives and families of the prospective backing musicians, the session was rescheduled for the Feast of St. Stephen.
I arrived at Nick's and C.C.'s discreet address, a four-story Victorian terrace house that contained the Am-Pro Recording studio on the ground floor. As I entered the hallway from the garden path, the door to the "front parlour", which now housed the recording room, swung open and the frame was filled by a familiar figure greeting: "Hello, I'm Johnny Cash".'
Am- Pro would go on to be used for recordings , finished and demos , for Get Happy!! , Punch The Clock and Goodby Cruel World.
You get to Melrose Terrace by getting the Tube to Goldhawk Station , via the Circle and Hammersmith & City lines. On exiting the station take a right and walk down by the bus station. After the bus park there is a pedestrian route around the back of the administration block. This will bring you to Sulgrave Road . Take a left and immediately take a right and walk by bollards and take a right onto Melrose Terrace. The neat houses , all 'full of doctors now ' said a elderly man walking a dog , have big cars lined up outside by the kerb. Just inside the gate of no.9 there was an abandoned, single door fridge. Almost opposite it is a turning that takes you onto Poplar Grove. Go down there and you reach the busy Shepherds Bush Road , where The Richmond , a large pub, is just across the road. Considering how most accounts of recording sessions involving Nick Lowe in the 1970s & 80s include references to adjournments to nearby public houses for refreshment it seems likely that this was used by the recording artists.
That about tells all regarding this location. Been there , done that - I can't imagine any reason to return in future.
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