phil seymour

The rock ‘n’ roll world lost a huge talent when drummer/singer/songwriter /guitarist Phil Seymour died of lymphoma at the unripe old age of 41 in 1993. Phil first made his mark in the Dwight Twilley band, co-writing a number of classic power pop tunes including I’m on Fire, then as a session man most notably on Tom Petty’s American Girl. But it was on his solo work that his talent really shone; this record, his debut album from 1981, is nowadays reckoned as one of the landmark power pop albums of the era, and now we at Collectors’ Choice Music are reissuing it for the first time on CD with the full cooperation of the Seymour estate. The album went to #64 on the charts thanks to the hit Precous to Me, but there ain’t a weak track here; also includes I Found a Love; Love You So Much; Baby It’s You; Let Her Dance; Then We Go Up; Don’t Blow Your Life Away; We Don’t Get Along; Trying to Get to You; I Really Love You, and Won’t Finish Here, plus the bonus album outtakes Looking for the Magic; How About You, and I’ll Be Waiting. We’ve remastered the album to make Richard Polodor’s production really shine, and none other than Tom Petty is among the notables to contribute to the notes.
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