Nick Rudd - One Track Mind

Artist: Nick Rudd Title: One Track Mind Catalog#: Parasol-CD-038 Price: $7.50	Tracks on this CD:
	One Track Mind
	She Won't Let Me Know
	Full Moon
	Locked Out
	Count The Tears
	Wounded By Love
	Hey Baby
	Dead Man In My Past
	Fading Away
	Long Time

other Nick Rudd releases

Welcome back. Nick Rudd returns to the recorded form with his first CD in over six years. Parasol Records’ first full-length release, Par-CD-001, was Forever by the "band" Blown, a front for Nick. At the time CMJ wrote,

"…if you jive on the woeful guitar sounds of Neil Young and the spangly jams of R.E.M., then you’ll have no problem bonding with Blown…Weaving twisting, blues-scale solos through simple chord structures, rudimentary tempos, and low-tenor vocals, this Mid-Western trio is perhaps most conveniently described as a cross between Uncle Tupelo and the Feelies…"

Since that release, Parasol’s Geoff Merritt provided a standing offer to release any album that Nick delivered. After a few 1997 sessions with Adam Schmitt, Nick stepped back, and decided to wait for a better time. In early 1999 former Weird Summer band-mate Bob Kimbell offered to record Nick’s album in a setting similar to the Jack Logan/Bob Kimbell Little Private Angel CD that was recorded fast and cheap, was critically well-received, and led to a major label deal for Jack Logan at Capricorn. The result of those sessions is One Track Mind.

If more pedigree is what you need, consider:

Nick’s band Turning Curious recorded the 1983 album Soul Light Season with producer Mitch Easter. At the time, Peter Holsapple said that Nick’s songwriting was among the best in the country.

Nick teamed with Velvet Crush’s Ric Menck and Paul Chastian in the pre-VC outfit Big Maybe. Try finding that 7" single.

Adam Schmitt covered a Nick Rudd song for a Warner Brothers promo-only sampler. Try finding that CD.

Nick has played guitar or bass in the 1990s with Weird Summer, Angie Heaton’s Gentle Tamers, and Lonely Trailer.