Doug Powell - Four Seasons

Brand new album from Doug Powell, one of long time favorite artists here at Not Lame and for many, many of you, you feel the same!! This one may very well be the last one we`ll see from Doug, though, as he`s announced his retirement from music to concentrate on his writing and graphic design business. If that is how it has to be--and we understand completely as there just is not enough support for musicians these days to take care of `biz`---it`s fan-pleasing move with this one. Much of this material never would have seen the light of day without this sort of project. So there`s the scoop.

There are 13 songs on this release, all of which you can sample below. 6 of these were songs written for The (New) Cars, who were looking at having Powell join the band before they settled on Todd Rundgren. He wrote these songs for the band and..well, listen below. They *are* The Cars. It`s amazing how Doug captured `the sound`. If The New Cars stay together and work on new material, guess what? They`ll have a hard time doing better than any of these tracks. Really. The scary thing? Doug tossed this babies off as a creative exercise. The next four songs are from his Japanese only EP, Venus DeMilo`s Arms, which only had 500 printed up. Classic Powell. It was a project of songs from 1996 that he was shopping around for labels after being dropped by Mercury the year before.

2 other songs were recorded in 2004 towards a new record that was never finished. The last song, Song #13, was written for Ringo Starr`s 1999 Christmas CD(quite good, btw!) but went unused by Ringo. What was he thinking?!! All in all, it`s joy-filled send-off and one that most pop fans will find great enjoyment from!

Feel For You (Car Tunes) - mp3

Runaround (Car Tunes) - mp3

Lies (Cars Tunes) - mp3

Fire and Ice (Car Tunes) - mp3

One Good Reason (Car Tunes) - mp3

Chained (Car Tunes) - mp3

Shot Like A Bullet Into The Sun (Venus DeMilo`s Arms) - mp3

Do You Know Mary" (Venus DeMilo`s Arms) - mp3

Bye Bye Magpie (Venus DeMilo`s Arms) - mp3

But I`m Only Dreaming (Venus DeMilo`s Arms) - mp3

The Same Divide (Dolce Vita) - mp3

Mary Annette (Dolce Vita) - mp3

God Bless Us All (Ringo Starr`s 1999 Christmas CD) - mp3