''Despite It All'' is a

Country Rock Country rock is a music genre that fuses rock and country. It was developed by rock musicians who began to record country-flavored records in the late 1960s and early 1970s. These musicians recorded rock records using country themes, vocal sty ...

album by

pub rock Pub rock is a subgenre of rock music that emerged in the early to mid-1970s in the United Kingdom. A back-to-basics movement, which incorporated roots rock, pub rock was a reaction against the expensively-recorded and produced progressive rock ...

band

Brinsley Schwarz Brinsley Schwarz were a 1970s English pub rock band, named after their guitarist Brinsley Schwarz. With Nick Lowe on bass and vocals, keyboardist Bob Andrews and drummer Billy Rankin, the band evolved from the 1960s pop band Kippington Lo ...

, released in 1970.

Track listing

All songs are written by Nick Lowe except where specified # "Country Girl" – 3:10 # "The Slow One" – 5:33 # "Funk Angel" – 4:21 # "Piece of Home" (Bob Andrews) – 6:19 # "Love Song" – 4:10 # "Star Ship" – 2:40 # "Ebury Down" – 5:15 # "Old Jarrow" – 7:11

Personnel

;Brinsley Schwarz *

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guitar The guitar is a stringed musical instrument that is usually fretted (with Fretless guitar, some exceptions) and typically has six or Twelve-string guitar, twelve strings. It is usually held flat against the player's body and played by strumming ...

vocals Singing is the art of creating music with the voice. It is the oldest form of musical expression, and the human voice can be considered the first musical instrument. The definition of singing varies across sources. Some sources define sing ...

* Billy Rankin –

drums The drum is a member of the percussion instrument, percussion group of musical instruments. In the Hornbostel–Sachs classification system, it is a membranophones, membranophone. Drums consist of at least one Acoustic membrane, membrane, c ...

percussion A percussion instrument is a musical instrument that is sounded by being struck or scraped by a percussion mallet, beater including attached or enclosed beaters or Rattle (percussion beater), rattles struck, scraped or rubbed by hand or ...

, ''Good vibes'' * Bob Andrews – keyboards, guitar, bass, vocals *

Nick Lowe Nicholas Drain Lowe (born 24 March 1949) is an English singer-songwriter, musician and producer. A noted figure in Pub rock (United Kingdom), pub rock, power pop and New wave music, new wave,banjo The banjo is a stringed instrument with a thin membrane stretched over a frame or cavity to form a resonator. The membrane is typically circular, and in modern forms is usually made of plastic, where early membranes were made of animal skin. ...

, vocals ;Additional performers ''(credited as 'Superb Beauties')'' * Dave Jackson –

saxophone The saxophone (often referred to colloquially as the sax) is a type of single-reed woodwind instrument with a conical body, usually made of brass. As with all single-reed instruments, sound is produced when a reed on a mouthpiece vibrates to p ...

on "The Slow One" and "Funk Angel" * Willy Weider –

fiddle A fiddle is a Bow (music), bowed String instrument, string musical instrument, most often a violin or a bass. It is a colloquial term for the violin, used by players in all genres, including European classical music, classical music. Althou ...

on "Country Girl" * Brian Cole – pedal steel on "Star Ship"

References

{{Authority control Brinsley Schwarz albums 1970 albums Capitol Records albums Albums produced by Brinsley Schwarz (musician) Albums produced by Billy Rankin (drummer) Albums produced by Bob Andrews (keyboardist) Albums produced by Nick Lowe Albums recorded at Olympic Sound Studios