''Anymore for Anymore'' is the debut solo album by

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, one of the founding members of

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and

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. The recording sessions, using

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, started in 1973 at his farm in

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with his new band Slim Chance. Lane had originally wanted to rechristen the Small Faces with the name Slim Chance in 1969 after

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left the group, but when

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and then

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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' ''

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'' album. Reviewing the song "The Poacher" for ''

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'' 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."

Track listing

Side oneSide two

Personnel

*Ronnie Lane – guitar, bass, vocals *

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– banjo, mandolin, guitar *

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– bass, guitar, accordion/squeeze box *Kevin Westlake – guitar *Billy Livsey - keyboards *Ken Slaven – violin * Steve Bingham – bass * Jimmy Jewell – saxophone *

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– 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:

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*Liner notes: Alberto Mitchell, Wayne Pernu

References

{{Authority control Ronnie Lane albums 1974 debut albums Albums produced by Glyn Johns Albums recorded in a home studio Albums recorded at IBC Studios