

Editors’ Notes “I’m 61 years old now/Lord, I never thought I’d see 30,” sings Nick Lowe on “Checkout Time” over a Johnny Cash–style country shuffle. Decades on from bridging pub rock and punk, he embraces age as a new friend. The softly parping horns of “Sensitive Man” and elegant balladry of “I Read a Lot” put Lowe's hard-won lyrics about love and loss into sharp relief. He even turns “Poisoned Rose,” by his old mate Elvis Costello, into a saloon song with a broken heart.
Stoplight Roses
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3:28
Checkout Time
2
2:52
House for Sale
3
3:41
Sensitive Man
4
2:52
I Read a Lot
5
3:17
Shame On the Rain
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2:24
Restless Feeling
7
2:40
Poisoned Rose
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4:46
Somebody Cares for Me
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2:50
You Don't Know Me At All
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3:06
Til' the Real Thing Comes Along
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3:25