Artist: Pete Townshend, Ronnie Lane
Album: Rough Mix
Genre: Rock
Release Date: 1977/2016
Audio Format:: FLAC (tracks) 24 bit, 96 kHz
Duration: 41:33
Total Tracks: 11
Total Size: 934 MB

Tracklist:

01. Pete Townshend, Ronnie Lane – My Baby Gives It Away (04:02)
02. Pete Townshend, Ronnie Lane – Nowhere to Run (03:17)
03. Pete Townshend, Ronnie Lane – Rough Mix (03:13)
04. Pete Townshend, Ronnie Lane – Annie (02:56)
05. Pete Townshend, Ronnie Lane – Keep Me Turning (03:46)
06. Pete Townshend, Ronnie Lane – Catmelody (03:13)
07. Pete Townshend, Ronnie Lane – Misunderstood (03:01)
08. Pete Townshend, Ronnie Lane – April Fool (03:34)
09. Pete Townshend, Ronnie Lane – Street in the City (06:07)
10. Pete Townshend, Ronnie Lane – Heart to Hang Onto (04:28)
11. Pete Townshend, Ronnie Lane – Till the Rivers All Run Dry (03:51)

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„Rough Mix“ is one of the most relaxed albums of Pete Townshend’s solo career. With this release, the Who leader leaves the thundering avalanche of his band to create a rustic pub band atmosphere. It’s a damned notable pub band to be sure (with guest performances from Charlie Watts, Eric Clapton, and Ian Stewart, to name a few) and one can only surmise how much the late (and former Small Faces member) Ronnie Lane is responsible for the offhand charm.
On „Rough Mix“, ukelele, dobro, and accordion outweigh the Les Pauls and Marshall stacks that usually attend Townshend’s music. The album’s best tunes (some of which were written and are sung by Lane himself) rely on warm, homespun invitations rather than riffs played at eardrum-shattering volume. With tunes that are by turn bucolically wistful (‘Annie’), sweeping and majestic (‘Street in the City’), and playfully grandiose (‘Misunderstood’), „Rough Mix“ is delightfully out of place in Townshend’s catalogue.Rough Mix, Pete Townshend’s 1977 collaboration with former Small Faces and Faces songwriter and bass player Ronnie Lane, combines the loose, rollicking folk-rock of Lane’s former band, Slim Chance, with touches of country, folk, and New Orleans rock & roll, along with Townshend’s own trademark style. Lane’s tunes, especially the beautiful “Annie,” possess an understated charm, while Townshend, with songs such as “Misunderstood,” the Meher Baba-inspired “Keep Me Turning,” and the strange love song “My Baby Gives It Away,” delivers some of the best material of his solo career. Rough Mix stands as a minor masterpiece and an overlooked gem in both artists’ vast bodies of work. Eric Clapton, John Entwistle, and Charlie Watts guest.