Tracks on Wax 4

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Tracks on Wax 4
Studio album by Dave Edmunds
Released	1978
Recorded	Mar 1978
Genre	Rock
Length	33:43
Label	Swan Song
Producer	Dave Edmunds
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Get It (1977) Tracks on Wax 4 (1978) Repeat When Necessary (1979)

Tracks on Wax 4 is a 1978 album by 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", is sometimes incorrectly attributed as having originally been performed by the 1960s surf music duo Jan and Dean; the song was actually originated by the Ohio-based R&B duo Dean and 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; Edmunds used the same backing track, but overdubbed his own lead vocals in place of Lowe's.

[edit] Track listing

1. "Trouble Boys" (Billy Murray) – 3:02
2. "Never Been in Love" (Nick Lowe/Rockpile) – 2:28
3. "Not a Woman, Not a Child" (Murray/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
7. "Deborah" (Lowe/Edmunds) – 2:38
8. "Thread Your Needle" (Brenda Lee Jones/Welton Young) – 3:27
9. "A.1. On the Jukebox" (Edmunds/Will Birch) – 3:15
10. "It's My Own Business" (Chuck Berry) – 3:56
11. "Heart of the City" (Lowe) – 3:03

[edit] Personnel

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