At My Age
Nick Lowe
Yep Roc
If “I Trained Her to Love Me” stands out from the rest of the songs on Lowe’s first studio album in six years, it’s for a couple of reasons: 1) the arresting lyrics about finding pleasure in romancing someone and then breaking it off; 2) the fact that it’s one of only two songs without horns.
The other nonhorn song is “A Man in Love,” a cover of a 1958 Charlie Feathers song unissued until a 1984 Netherlands import LP called “Cotton Chopper Country.”
The rest of the album can be divided up according to what style the horns are –
Mexican horns: “A Better Man”; “Long Limbed Girl” (on which they don’t kick in until halfway, around the same time as a sublimely subtle banjo); and “The Club.”
R&B horns: “Hope for Us All”; “People Change” (with background vocals by Chrissie Hynde); “Love’s Got a Lot to Answer For”; “Rome Wasn’t Built in a Day”; “Not Too Long Ago” (a cover of a 1965 single by the Louisiana swamp pop group The Uniques, featuring a young Joe Stampley, who co-wrote it with Merle Kilgore, who wrote “Ring of Fire”); and “The Other Side of the Coin” (a song Lowe wrote for Solomon Burke’s 2002 album “Don’t Give Up on Me”).
Country horns: “Feel Again” (a cover of a song from Faron Young’s 1976 LP “I’d Just Be Fool Enough”).
“At My Age” continues the former pub rocker’s transformation begun with 1994’s “The Impossible Bird,” from country/roots-rocker to laid-back crooner, specializing in moderate- to slow-tempo numbers written in his self-described “diary set to music” style.
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