Rockpile featured two of the father’s of New Wave, Dave Edmunds and Nick Lowe collaborating, often as solo artists due to contractual issues of the day. While the band only released one official album, Rockpile tunes can be found all over Edmunds’ and Lowe's late 1970’s catalog.

Eagle Records found a real diamond in the rough when they discovered the band played a very rare gig at Montreux back in 1980. The only song from the official Rockpile album performed was the hit “Teacher Teacher” which is a shame as the entire album is a classic. However, that said, there are tons of great tunes including the band’s version of what would become a Juice Newton hit, “Queen of Hearts” and the standards “Let It Rock” and “Crawling From the Wreckage.” Most of the other songs can be found on the solo albums of the duo as mentioned before. The band does an excellent version of Edmonds’ first hit, “I Hear You Knocking” and the crowd eats up the now forgotten tracks “Switchboard Susan” and “Trouble Boys.”

This is a cool find from the Montreux Jazz Festival vaults yet it would have been so much better if the band had played more of the classic album but the fact that these guys were captured live at all makes this one a must-own for fans of Lowe and Edmonds.