The Alan Parsons Project’s 1980 album The Turn Of A Friendly Card is about to be reissued for a second time, this time with even more bonus tracks of rehearsals and songwriting sessions. I really dug the existing reissue from a few years back, which included a fascinating dissection of the seemingly simple song “Nothing Left To Lose”, which is positively folksy next to the usual productions numbers (including the tracks that bracket it on the album in question). Three of the bonus tracks let you hear, in order, the unadorned backing track, an early “guide vocal” sung by Eric Woolfson (who sang the finished version), and some isolated sections of Chris Rainbow’s amazing one-man-multitracked backing vocals. I spliced the three together (which took a bit more surgery than one might expect) to get a more-or-less fully mixed version of these elements, just for giggles.
Listen here:
[audio:https://www.thelogbook.com/earl/podcast/nothing.mp3]
You can hear the (much more polished) original here (Alan Parsons, I ain’t):
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