Dig My Mood

Nick Lowe spent most of the '70s and '80s as a power-popping, roots-rocking dynamo, turning out album after album of urgent, catchy pop-rock tunes. Beginning with 1990's PARTY OF ONE, Lowe began to loosen his grip on the rock & roll reigns, opting instead for a more introspective, soulful sound that suited his expressive, weathered voice perfectly. DIG MY MOOD takes that approach even further, concentrating on the kind of ballads that sound as if they've existed in the collective unconscious forever.
Assisted by most of the same musicians who accompanied him on 1994's fabulous IMPOSSIBLE BIRD, Lowe slips easily into the crooner mold. "You Inspire Me" is an instant classic of a '40s-sounding, jazzy ballad, just begging to be turned into a standard. The graceful "Freezing" is a glorious evocation of a winter both internal and external. Picking up the thread of Lowe's long-standing love of country music, "Man That I've Become" sounds tailor-made for his former father-in-law, Johnny Cash, and easily worthy of the Man In Black.|