Mega Shebang

by William RuhlmannAndy Fairweather Low's last shot at solo stardom came with this outing for Warner Brothers, on which, producing himself, he took much the same approach he had in his '70s albums, mixing styles freely and putting them in his titles: "Night Time Djuke-ing," "Hard Hat Boogie," "3 Step Shuffle," and so on. The beat was a bit more pronounced, and the tempos a bit more frantic, but this was a typical album on the whole for the artist, and the response was typical, too. No one bought it, and after getting one last chance at success with the Local Boys in 1983, Fairweather Low paid the rent playing second-banana to more successful British rockers like Roger Waters and Eric Clapton.