The Impossible Bird
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ReceptionEdit
Template:Album ratings In a contemporary review of The Impossible Bird, Rolling Stone critic Paul Evans said that the album showed Lowe "in excellent form" with songs that "demonstrate a prodigious productivity and an emotional realism that ranges from heartbreak... to a well-earned bittersweet humor".<ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref> People called it a "high point" for Lowe,<ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref> while Los Angeles Times critic Mike Boehm wrote: "The only real impossibility on this album lies in trying to resist the gently seductive pop charms of the crafty old bird who made it."<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> Less receptive was Robert Christgau of The Village Voice, who merely gave the album a "neither" rating.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
Track listingEdit
PersonnelEdit
- Nick Lowe – bass guitar, rhythm guitar, acoustic guitar
- Gary Grainger – guitar
- Bill Kirchen – trombone, electric guitar
- Paul Riley – bass guitar
- Bobby Irwin – drums
- Geraint Watkins – organ, electric guitar