A Nickel and a Nail and Ace of Spades: 180gm Vinyl LP testing SW X-Ray Spex

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and anyone else within earshot has to sit up

and arrangements on this second album

and a Revolver Golden Gods Award

that’s great

A Nickel and a Nail and Ace of Spades: 180gm Vinyl LP testing SW X-Ray SpexSometimes great things come in humble packages. The ramshackle cover art for this 1972 album makes it look like a bootleg, and the rampant misspellings and inconsistencies in the album and song titles make it clear that whoever was in charge of proofreading at the Back Beat label must have taken the day off when the art was circulated. But no matterseldom has the secular met the sacred with as much emotional force as on O. V. Wrights A Nickel and a