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As he reaches his mid-thirties, Nick Lowe is doing it by halves: half a man and half a cowboy.
Which means he probably used to wear a sheriff’s badge and fire caps at next door’s cat, same as everyone else, and definitely means he’s about to ride from the sunset onto the radio with his new album ‘Nick Lowe And His Cowboy Outfit’. Just the kind of conniving wordplay we ought to expect from a chap whose last LP ‘The Abominable Showman’ included songs like ‘Time Wounds All Heels’ and ‘(For Every Woman Who Ever Made A Fool Of A Man There’s A Woman Made A) Man Of A Fool’.
“It just seemed like a good name, I couldn’t understand why no one had ever used it before, it was one of those simple ones that’s been overlooked. The Cowboy Outfit is just a new name, it’s the same old band. What happened was, when we toured before it was called Nick Lowe And His Noise To Go… but when Paul Carrack’s album came out,” (produced by Nick The Knife) “Paul Carrack And The Noise To Go just didn’t make any sense at all. So we dumped that.
“I was going to call the album ‘Cowboy Outfit’ because the kind of music on it is country rock, so it suited that. But it’s the same band, Paul Carrack,” (keyboards and brilliant voices), “Martin Belmont on guitar and Bobby Irwin on drums.”
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