PETE TOWNSHEND AND RONNIE LANE : ROUGH MIX

 

  1. My Baby Gives It Away
  2. Nowhere to Run
  3. Rough Mix
  4. Annie
  5. Keep Me Turning
  6. Catmelody
  7. Misunderstood
  8. April Fool
  9. Street in the City
  10. Heart to Hang Onto
  11. Till the Rivers All Run Dry
    Bonus Tracks :
  12. Only You
  13. Good Question
  14. Silly Little Man

Label : Revisited Records

Release Year : 1977

Length : 53:24

Review (AllMusic) : Rough Mix, Pete Townshend's 1977 collaboration with former Small Faces and Faces songwriter and bass player Ronnie Lane, combines the loose, rollicking folk-rock of Lane's former band, Slim Chance, with touches of country, folk, and New Orleans rock & roll, along with Townshend's own trademark style. Lane's tunes, especially the beautiful "Annie," possess an understated charm, while Townshend, with songs such as "Misunderstood," the Meher Baba-inspired "Keep Me Turning," and the strange love song "My Baby Gives It Away," delivers some of the best material of his solo career. Rough Mix stands as a minor masterpiece and an overlooked gem in both artists' vast bodies of work. Eric Clapton, John Entwistle, and Charlie Watts guest. [The album was reissued in 2006 in a remastered DualDisc from Hip-O containing the album and bonus cuts in DVD audio. Hip-O re-released it again in January of 2007 as a single CD in remastered form, bonus cuts included].