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2005 saw the release on CD of two of Jackie's best-loved albums, HOME IS IN MY HEAD and THREE on Warner Brothers. The albums were released with bonus tracks in the UK by WB themselves but were licensed (minus the bonus tracks) to Water Records in the US. Long-overdue, long-lost classics. Those two releases mean that all of the originally-released-on-vinyl recordings are available on CD, thanks to pressure from Jackie Lomax fans from all over the world. 2005 also saw an unlikely collaboration with Paul Whitehead and Alex E. Carpani's Borg Symphony, singing on the only vocal track on their album ODE TO HERO TIXIE - Tixe's Song. In August 2006 Jackie was back in Liverpool, playing gigs in and around Beatleweek 2006, with the Undertakers. Jackie again joined Geoff Nugent and Brian Jones from the original line-up for gigs at the Pierhead, the Empire Theatre and Fort Perch Rock. He returned to play similar gigs in 2008 and contributed two tracks to the new Undertakers album, RESURRECTION. THE BALLAD OF LIVERPOOL SLIM finally got a worldwide release on Angel Air Records in March 2009. Two bonus tracks (a 1976 live version of Sour Milk Sea and Friend-A-Mine) were added to the original album for its release as THE BALLAD OF LIVERPOOL SLIM... PLUS. As
Badger's WHITE LADY, LIVIN' FOR
LOVIN' and DID YOU EVER HAVE THAT FEELING? have only
been re-released on CD in Japan, hopefully those albums will soon
get the wider release they undoubtedly deserve. And the unheard
1967 LOMAX ALLIANCE recordings and the long-lost HEAVY
JELLY album are both overdue for full releases. But in general,
the focus is once again on the future rather than the past. But
that has always been Jackie Lomax's focus. He refuses to dwell on
former glories. What's next? |
