Anymore for Anymore is the debut solo album by Ronnie Lane, one of the founding members of Small Faces and Faces. The recording sessions, using Ronnie Lane's Mobile Studio, started in 1973 at his 100-acre (40 ha) farm in Wales with his new band Slim Chance.

Anymore for Anymore
Studio album by
ReleasedJuly 1974
Recorded1973–74
StudioFishpool, Hyssington with Ronnie Lane's Mobile Studio; mixed at IBC Studios, London
GenreFolk rock
Length40:37
LabelGM Records
ProducerGlyn Johns, Ronnie Lane, Bruce Rowland
Ronnie Lane chronology
Anymore for Anymore
(1974)
Ronnie Lane's Slim Chance
(1975)

Lane had originally wanted to rechristen the Small Faces with the name Slim Chance in 1969 after Steve Marriott left the group, but when Ron Wood and then Rod Stewart 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' Long Player album.

Critical reception

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Professional ratings
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AllMusic     [1]
MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide     [2]
Q     [3]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide     [4]

Reviewing the song "The Poacher" for The Guardian 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."[5]

Track listing

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Side one

No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Careless Love"Traditional; arranged by Ronnie Lane4:09
2."Don't You Cry for Me"Ronnie Lane4:26
3."Bye and Bye (Gonna See the King)"Ronnie Lane5:06
4."Silk Stockings"Ronnie Lane, Kevin Westlake1:48
5."The Poacher"Ronnie Lane3:45

Side two

No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Roll on Babe"Derroll Adams3:20
2."Tell Everyone"Ronnie Lane3:00
3."Amelia Earhart's Last Flight"Dave McEnery, Lindsay McPhail5:49
4."Anymore for Anymore"Ronnie Lane, Kate Lambert3:43
5."Just a Bird in a Gilded Cage"Harry Von Tilzer1:06
6."Chicken Wired"Ronnie Lane4:25

Personnel

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  • Ronnie Lane – guitar, bass, vocals
  • Graham Lyle – banjo, mandolin, guitar
  • Benny Gallagher – bass, guitar, accordion/squeeze box
  • Kevin Westlake – guitar
  • Billy Livsey - keyboards
  • Ken Slaven – violin
  • Steve Bingham – bass
  • Jimmy Jewell – saxophone
  • Bruce Rowland – drums
  • The Tanners of Montgomery – backing vocals
  • Jimmy Horowitz - string arrangement on "The Poacher"

Production

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  • 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: Paul Bevoir
  • Liner notes: Alberto Mitchell, Wayne Pernu

References

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  1. ^ Heibutzki, Ralph. Anymore for Anymore at AllMusic
  2. ^ Graff, Gary; Durchholz, Daniel, eds. (1999). MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide. Farmington Hills, MI: Visible Ink Press. p. 404. ISBN 1-57859-061-2.
  3. ^ Martin, Andrew (July 1992). "Re-releases: Ronnie Lane & Slim Chance Anymore For Anymore ... Plus". Q. p. 107.
  4. ^ Marsh, Dave; Swenson, John, eds. (1983). The New Rolling Stone Record Guide. New York, NY: Random House/Rolling Stone Press. p. 288. ISBN 0-394-72107-1.
  5. ^ Chesterton, George (15 March 2012). "Old music: Ronnie Lane – the Poacher". The Guardian.