Play Dusty for Me

Play Dusty for Me
Play Dusty for Me
Studio album by David Westlake
Released	11 June 2002
Recorded	August 2001, Kilkenny, Ireland
Genre	Indie rock
Length	54:50
Language	English
Label	Mahlerphone; Angular Recording Corporation; Captured Tracks
Producer	Cormac Moore
David Westlake chronology

Play Dusty for Me is the second solo album by English singer and songwriter David Westlake.

Context[]

David Westlake recorded Play Dusty for Me in August 2001 in Kilkenny, Ireland. The album was produced by Cormac Moore.

First album Westlake was released in 1987 on Creation Records. Luke Haines describes it as "a minor classic".^[1]

Between 1985 and 1991 Westlake was in British indie band The Servants.

Release history[]

Play Dusty for Me was first released in 2002 on the Mahlerphone label,^[2] in a highly limited issue that quickly sold out but was still never re-pressed.^[3]

A 2010 digital reissue by Angular included bonus tracks "Never Grow Up" (4:08) and "Loggerheads" (1:59), the latter a re-recording of a Servants song.^[4]

Captured Tracks released Play Dusty for Me in LP format on Black Friday, 2015.^[5]

Track listing[]

CD (Mahlerphone, 2002)[]

"Play Dusty for Me" – 3:30
"Song for John" – 2:02
"Back on Track" – 4:28
"An Ocean Away" – 3:50
"Say When" – 2:51
"Stupid Love" – 3:33
"The Lonely City" – 2:34
"I Can't Give You the Life You Want" – 3:38
"Nowhere Days" – 3:03
"I Die for Love" – 3:40
"Patience" – 4:40
"Even If" – 4:22
"Life on the Edge" – 3:44
"Hi You" – 3:55
"Life Goes On" – 4:20

LP (Captured Tracks, 2015)[]

Side one:

"Play Dusty for Me" – 3:30
"Song for John" – 2:02
"Back on Track" – 4:28
"An Ocean Away" – 3:50
"Say When" – 2:51
"I Can't Give You the Life You Want" – 3:38
"The Lonely City" – 2:34

Side two:

"Life on the Edge" – 3:44
"I Die for Love" – 3:40
"My Ice Queen" – 4:41
"Nowhere Days" – 3:03
"Stupid Love" – 3:33
"Life Goes On" – 4:20

Personnel[]

David Westlake – vocals and guitar
Dan Cross – guitar
Cormac Moore – bass
Willis Moore – drums

References[]

^ Luke Haines, sleeve-notes to the Servants compilation Reserved (Cherry Red Records CDMRED 297, 2006)
^ David Westlake discography
^ Jack Rabid, The Big Takeover, 17 January 2011
^ Angular, ARC075, 5 Jul 2010
^ Discogs - David Westlake: Play Dusty for Me

[1] Luke Haines, sleeve-notes to the Servants compilation Reserved (Cherry Red Records CDMRED 297, 2006)

[2] David Westlake discography

[3] Jack Rabid, The Big Takeover, 17 January 2011

[4] Angular, ARC075, 5 Jul 2010

[5] Discogs - David Westlake: Play Dusty for Me

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