Brinsley Schwarz Live At Rockpalast 1975 (CD)

Brinsley Schwarz were a British country pub rock band and recorded a total of 6 albums between 1969 and 1975. Stylistically, they were heavily influenced by the US country rock band Eggs Over Easy and were thus the forefathers of the British pub rock movement. Musically, pub rock was a return to the 1960s, when the beat and R&B music wave spawned a lively nationwide live music club scene.

Alongside Brinsley Schwarz, bands such as Dr. Feelgood, Kilburn & The Highrods, Joe Strummer's 101 “ers, ‘Starry Eyed And Laughing’, ‘Ace’ and Ducks Deluxe conquered the stages of pubs and clubs in the UK. On March 6, 1975, Brinsley Schwarz played a one-hour set for Rockpalast in Studio L of Cologne's WDR. According to the band's chroniclers, the five musicians then parted ways, Nick Lowe and Ian Gomm went on to solo careers and finally had greater success with other bands (Nick Lowe with Dave Edmunds in Rockpile), Brinsley Schwarz and Bob Andrews were in the studio and on tour with Graham Parker & The Rumours.

Unfortunately, almost all the footage of the set has been lost over the years. However, the soundtracks of the last Brinsley Schwarz performance could be saved and were restored for this release by the then WDR sound engineer Manfred Kaiser and remastered by Johannes Scheibenreif in his Vienna studio.