Anymore for Anymore
Anymore for Anymore is the debut solo album by Ronnie Lane, one of the founding members of Small Faces and Faces. The recording sessions, using Ronnie Lane's Mobile Studio, started in 1973 at his 100-acre (40 ha) farm in Wales with his new band Slim Chance.
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| Released | July 1974 | |||
| Recorded | 1973–74 | |||
| Studio | Fishpool, Hyssington with Ronnie Lane's Mobile Studio; mixed at IBC Studios, London | |||
| Genre | Folk rock | |||
| Length | 40:37 | |||
| Label | GM Records | |||
| Producer | Glyn Johns, Ronnie Lane, Bruce Rowland | |||
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Lane had originally wanted to rechristen the Small Faces with the name Slim Chance in 1969 after Steve Marriott left the group, but when Ron Wood and then Rod Stewart joined them soon after, the other band members vetoed the idea and instead opted to slightly amend their existing name to Faces.
The Anymore for Anymore album showcases a more rootsy, folk, and country music-influenced sound than any albums he recorded with Faces, although Lane had already experimented heavily with these musical styles on his own compositions for that group as early as 1970.
The carefree nature of the album's recording is illustrated by the fact that the title track was spontaneously recorded on the hillside overlooking Lane's farm, where the sound of nearby cattle and a light wind picked up by the recording microphones added further rural ambience to the track.
The track "Tell Everyone" was a re-recording of a Lane song from the Faces' Long Player album.
Critical reception
| Review scores | |
|---|---|
| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   [1] |
| MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide |  [2] |
| Q | [3] |
| The Rolling Stone Album Guide | [4] |
Reviewing the song "The Poacher" for The Guardian in 2012, George Chesterton, wrote: "Pop lyrics can aspire only to be poetic – they are not poetry in themselves – but the lines 'Bring me fish with eyes of jewels and mirrors on their bodies / Bring them strong and bring them bigger than a newborn child' come pretty close. Thanks to the strings and oboe of the refrain and Lane's warm strumming, the music is as simple and as transcendant as the message."[5]
Track listing
Side one
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Careless Love" | Traditional; arranged by Ronnie Lane | 4:09 |
| 2. | "Don't You Cry for Me" | Ronnie Lane | 4:26 |
| 3. | "Bye and Bye (Gonna See the King)" | Ronnie Lane | 5:06 |
| 4. | "Silk Stockings" | Ronnie Lane, Kevin Westlake | 1:48 |
| 5. | "The Poacher" | Ronnie Lane | 3:45 |
Side two
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Roll on Babe" | Derroll Adams | 3:20 |
| 2. | "Tell Everyone" | Ronnie Lane | 3:00 |
| 3. | "Amelia Earhart's Last Flight" | Dave McEnery, Lindsay McPhail | 5:49 |
| 4. | "Anymore for Anymore" | Ronnie Lane, Kate Lambert | 3:43 |
| 5. | "Just a Bird in a Gilded Cage" | Harry Von Tilzer | 1:06 |
| 6. | "Chicken Wired" | Ronnie Lane | 4:25 |
Personnel
- Ronnie Lane – guitar, bass, vocals
- Graham Lyle – banjo, mandolin, guitar
- Benny Gallagher – bass, guitar, accordion/squeeze box
- Kevin Westlake – guitar
- Billy Livsey - keyboards
- Ken Slaven – violin
- Steve Bingham – bass
- Jimmy Jewell – saxophone
- Bruce Rowland – drums
- The Tanners of Montgomery – backing vocals
- Jimmy Horowitz - string arrangement on "The Poacher"
Production
- Producer: Ronnie Lane, Bruce Rowland on "Bye and Bye (Gonna See the King)" and "The Poacher", Glyn Johns on "Tell Everyone"
- Recording engineers: Hugh Jones, Andy Knight
- Artwork/sleeve Art: Paul Bevoir
- Liner notes: Alberto Mitchell, Wayne Pernu
References
- Heibutzki, Ralph. Anymore for Anymore at AllMusic
- Graff, Gary; Durchholz, Daniel, eds. (1999). MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide. Farmington Hills, MI: Visible Ink Press. p. 404. ISBN 1-57859-061-2.
- Martin, Andrew (July 1992). "Re-releases: Ronnie Lane & Slim Chance Anymore For Anymore ... Plus". Q. p. 107.
- Marsh, Dave; Swenson, John, eds. (1983). The New Rolling Stone Record Guide. New York, NY: Random House/Rolling Stone Press. p. 288. ISBN 0-394-72107-1.
- Chesterton, George (15 March 2012). "Old music: Ronnie Lane – the Poacher". The Guardian.