Anymore for Anymore


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 farm in Wales with his new band Slim Chance.
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

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 transcendent as the message."

Reissues

The album has been rereleased four times to date on compact disc. It was first released on CD by Marquee Classic in 1990, and then by See For Miles in 1992, adding the B-side Done This One Before as a bonus track. A third release by NMC Music in 1997 added a number of alternate versions as bonus tracks. A fourth release by Alchemy Entertainment in 2003 also included the bonus tracks from the 1997 reissue, and added a second CD duplicating the tracks from the Tin and Tambourine compilation, which largely consists of alternate versions from the subsequent albums Ronnie Lane's Slim Chance, One for [the Road (Ronnie Lane album)|One for the Road] and See Me. Currently, the album is not available on CD as a standalone release, but the version available on streaming services includes the bonus tracks from 2019's Just For a Moment box set.

Track listing

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Personnel

Production