Name: Last Minutes and Lost Evenings
Brand: Epitaph (USA)
SKU: 29980738
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Last Minutes and Lost Evenings

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Album: Last Minutes and Lost Evenings
#	Song Title	Time
1)	I Knew Prufrock Before He Got Famous
2)	I Still Believe
3)	Try This at Home
4)	Real Damage, The
5)	Father's Day
6)	Nashville Tennessee
7)	Dan's Song
8)	Substitute
9)	Reasons Not to Be an Idiot
10)	Sons of Liberty
11)	Road, The
12)	Long Live the Queen
13)	Next Round, The
14)	Photosynthesis
15)	Ballad of Me and My Friends, The
1)	Eulogy
2)	Try This at Home
3)	If Ever I Stray
4)	Reasons Not to Be an Idiot
5)	Nashville Tennessee
6)	Wessex Boy
7)	Peggy Sang the Blues
8)	I Am Disappeared
9)	Love Ire & Song
10)	Glory Hallelujah
11)	Real Damage, The
12)	Dan's Song
13)	Father's Day
14)	Substitute
15)	Long Live the Queen
16)	I Knew Prufrock Before He Got Famous
17)	Sons of Liberty
18)	Four Simple Words
19)	Road, The
20)	I Still Believe
21)	Somebody to Love
22)	Times They Are a-Changin', The
23)	Ballad of Me and My Friends, The
24)	Photosynthesis

Album: Last Minutes and Lost Evenings
#	Song Title	Time
1)	I Knew Prufrock Before He Got Famous
2)	I Still Believe
3)	Try This at Home
4)	Real Damage, The
5)	Father's Day
6)	Nashville Tennessee
7)	Dan's Song
8)	Substitute
9)	Reasons Not to Be an Idiot
10)	Sons of Liberty
11)	Road, The
12)	Long Live the Queen
13)	Next Round, The
14)	Photosynthesis
15)	Ballad of Me and My Friends, The
1)	Eulogy
2)	Try This at Home
3)	If Ever I Stray
4)	Reasons Not to Be an Idiot
5)	Nashville Tennessee
6)	Wessex Boy
7)	Peggy Sang the Blues
8)	I Am Disappeared
9)	Love Ire & Song
10)	Glory Hallelujah
11)	Real Damage, The
12)	Dan's Song
13)	Father's Day
14)	Substitute
15)	Long Live the Queen
16)	I Knew Prufrock Before He Got Famous
17)	Sons of Liberty
18)	Four Simple Words
19)	Road, The
20)	I Still Believe
21)	Somebody to Love
22)	Times They Are a-Changin', The
23)	Ballad of Me and My Friends, The
24)	Photosynthesis

Performer Notes

Personnel: Ben Lloyd (electric guitar, mandolin, harmonica, background vocals); Matt Nasir (piano, organ, keyboards, background vocals); Tarrant Anderson (bass guitar); Nigel Powell (drums, percussion, background vocals).
Recording information: Wembley (04/13/2012).
Billed as a set of rarities and standards, the 15-track Last Minutes and Lost Evenings is designed as a sort of Frank Turner primer for uninitiated North American audiences. The English punk rocker turned folk-punker (he used to play in the London-based hardcore outfit Million Dead), who counts Johnny Cash, Billy Bragg, the Beatles, and the Boss as influences, has been quietly establishing himself as a voice of the people since his 2007 debut, Sleep Is for the Week, balancing the working class pragmatism of Ewan MacColl and Woody Guthrie with the rowdy, anti-establishment swagger of Against Me! and Joe Strummer. Lyrically sharp, musically simple, yet sound and always one verse away from a pint-swinging chorus, Turner should have little trouble infiltrating the Dropkick Murphys/Flogging Molly/Social Distortion crowd, especially with rousing blue-collar anthems like "Sons of Liberty," "I Knew Prufrock Before He Got Famous," and "I Still Believe," and his obvious love of American country and folk music, best exemplified by full-band, open-highway rovers like "The Road," while "Nashville Tennessee" helps to soften some of the more region-specific vernacular. Hand-picked by the artist, the songs on Last Minutes and Lost Evenings ebb and flow with grit and grace. That said, Turner garnered some of his best reviews with 2011's excellent England Keep My Bones (the riveting "One Foot Before the Other" seamlessly integrates his hardcore punk past into his more rustic present), but only the aforementioned "I Still Believe" was chosen to represent. It's hardly a deal breaker, though, as the target audience for the compilation will be oblivious to any deficiencies that would otherwise be obvious to seasoned fans, many of whom will be picking up Last Minutes and Lost Evenings purely for the bundled DVD of Turner's magnificent headlining performance at Wembley Arena. ~ James Christopher Monger