Tracks on Wax 4 explained

Tracks on Wax 4
Type:	studio
Artist:	Dave Edmunds
Cover:	Dave Edmunds-Tracks on Wax 4 (album cover).jpg
Released:	8 September 1978
Recorded:	March 1978
Studio:	Eden Studios, London
Genre:	Rock and roll rockabilly^[1] country rock
Length:	33:43
Label:	Swan Song
Producer:	Dave Edmunds
Prev Title:	Get It
Prev Year:	1977
Next Title:	Repeat When Necessary
Next Year:	1979

Tracks on Wax 4 is the fourth album by Welsh rock musician Dave Edmunds. The record was the first Edmunds solo effort to feature all four members of the band Rockpile: 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."^[2]

Track listing

Side one

1. "Trouble Boys" (Billy Murray) – 3:02
2. "Never Been in Love" (Nick Lowe, Rockpile) – 2:28
3. "Not a Woman, Not a Child" (Billy Murray, Ray Peters) – 3:21
4. "Television" (Lowe) – 3:19
5. "What Looks Best on You" (Lowe, Edmunds) – 2:26
6. "Readers Wives" (Noel Brown) – 3:11

Side two

1. "Deborah" (Lowe, Edmunds) – 2:38
2. "Thread Your Needle" (Brenda Lee Jones, Welton Young) – 3:27
3. "A1 On the Jukebox" (Edmunds, Will Birch) – 3:15
4. "It's My Own Business" (Chuck Berry) – 3:56
5. "Heart of the City" (Lowe) – 3:03

Personnel

• Dave Edmunds – guitar, piano, vocals
• Billy Bremner – guitar
• Terry Williams – drums
• Nick Lowe – bass
• Gerry Hogan – pedal steel guitar
• Pete Kelly – piano

Charts

Chart (1978)	Peak position
Australian Albums (Kent Music Report)^[3]	93
US Bubbling Under the Top LPs (Billboard)^[4]	2

Notes and References

1. Book: Hull, Tom. Dave Edmunds. . 2004 . . 4th . Brackett . Nathan . Hoard . Christian . 0-7432-0169-8 . 272–273.
2. News: Gilday . Katherine . Inside the Sleeve Pop . The Globe and Mail . 20 Dec 1978 . F9.
3. Book: Kent, David. David Kent (historian). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992. Australian Chart Book. St Ives, N.S.W.. illustrated. 1993. 0-646-11917-6. 100.
4. Bubbling Under the Top LPs. Billboard. 90. 41. 14 October 1978. 28.