Doug Paisley - No One But You/ If I Wanted To

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4...according to our Brett on Thu 17 Feb, 2011.

I can't recall hearing Doug Paisley before but this is quite a nice slice of singer-songwritery pie. It's got a shufflingly relaxed beat, widdly organ that sounds like it was pulled out of Nick Cave's 'Straight To You', some soothingly picked guitar and the song itself is undoubtedly a very strong backbone on which to hang those.. Erm, body parts I guess. Sophisti-pop of high quality.

A few months ago, a good friend of ours in NYC sent us a link to Doug Paisley’s ‘Constant Companion’ LP. The accompanying note read, “I love this and so will you”. She was not wrong.

So we got on the phone to Doug’s manager and his U.S. label, No Quarter, and offered to release the record in Europe. Alas, it was too late. Mojo had a rave review about to run and a MOJO Rising feature to follow shortly after. We couldn’t turn the record around before March so we bailed. As I’m sure you know it’s a tough trick trying to sell a record these days and with those key bits of promo coming out of whack of the release date we played the card of caution, but not before asking if we could do ‘No One But You’ as a 7”.

The reason, if one was needed: it’s the most beautiful song we heard all year. And the flip is a gem too, and a previously un-released one at that.

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