Anymore for Anymore

Anymore for Anymore is the debut solo album by Ronnie Lane, one of the founding members of Small Faces and Faces. The recording sessions, using Ronnie Lane's Mobile Studio, started in 1973 at his 100 acre farm in Wales with his new band Slim Chance.

Lane had originally wanted to rechristen the Small Faces with the name Slim Chance in 1969 after Steve Marriott left the group, but when Ron Wood and then Rod Stewart joined them soon after, the other band members vetoed the idea and instead opted to slightly amend their existing name to Faces.

The Anymore for Anymore album showcases a more rootsy, folk, and country music-influenced sound than any albums he recorded with Faces, although Lane had already experimented heavily with these musical styles on his own compositions for that group as early as 1970.

The carefree nature of the album's recording is illustrated by the fact that the title track was spontaneously recorded on the hillside overlooking Lane's farm, where the sound of nearby cattle and a light wind picked up by the recording microphones added further rural ambience to the track.

The track "Tell Everyone" was a re-recording of a Lane song from the Faces' Long Player album.

Critical reception
Reviewing the song "The Poacher" for The Guardian in 2012, George Chesterton, wrote: "Pop lyrics can aspire only to be poetic – they are not poetry in themselves – but the lines 'Bring me fish with eyes of jewels and mirrors on their bodies / Bring them strong and bring them bigger than a newborn child' come pretty close. Thanks to the strings and oboe of the refrain and Lane's warm strumming, the music is as simple and as transcendant as the message."

Track listing
Side oneSide two

Personnel

 * Ronnie Lane – guitar, bass, vocals
 * Graham Lyle – banjo, mandolin, guitar
 * Benny Gallagher – bass, guitar, accordion/squeeze box
 * Kevin Westlake – guitar
 * Billy Livsey - keyboards
 * Ken Slaven – violin
 * Steve Bingham – bass
 * Jimmy Jewell – saxophone
 * Bruce Rowland – drums
 * The Tanners of Montgomery – backing vocals
 * Jimmy Horowitz - string arrangement on "The Poacher"

Production

 * Producer: Ronnie Lane, Bruce Rowland on "Bye and Bye (Gonna See the King)" and "The Poacher", Glyn Johns on "Tell Everyone"
 * Recording engineers: Hugh Jones, Andy Knight
 * Artwork/sleeve Art: Paul Bevoir
 * Liner notes: Alberto Mitchell, Wayne Pernu