One of Rock and Roll's greatest songwriters is out with a brand new album.

It's Nick Lowe's first full-length effort in nearly a dozen years and it debuted at number one on the Billboard charts in the Americana folk category.

Special correspondent, Tom Keshado, has the story for our arts and culture series, Canvas.

I'm be a long gone daddy. It's hard to find rock and roll credentials more solid than Nick Lowe's.

And it's not just because he tours with a surf rock band,

Lose Straight Jackets in their trademark Mexican wrestling masks.

From pub rock to New Wave, he built his rep in the 70s, solo and in the band's

Brinsley Schwartz and Rock Pile.

He was also a producer for Graham Parker, The Damned and Elvis Costello.

He even penned one of Rock's most memorable anthems made famous by Costello. But if rock and roll is all you know about Nick Lowe and his 75 years on the planet,

and well over 50 in the music business, well, let's start at the start.

My father was a career RF officer. He was a pilot. He met my mom during the war. She was in the Women's Royal Air Force. She came from a show business family, sort of vaudeville, really.

She was a very good singer and taught me how to sing inchworm from the Hans Christian Anderson,

Danny Kay thing.

Inchworm.

And that's got this lovely desk can when he kissed in one tune and his account of melody.

I figured out how to be able to sing another tune while somebody is singing a different tune

and a third element is created and

it kept on bugging her to do it again.

Go on mom guys do the inchworm song.

He recalls more seeds his mother planted, the country of Tennessee Ernie Ford,

the jazzy pop of Nat King Cole.

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