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Music

Lowe maintenance

The Old Magic shows a once fast-living rocker at his mellow and wise best | Arsenio Orteza

Nick Lowe/Photo by Rex Features via AP Images

"I'm 61 years old now," sings Nick Lowe on the second cut of his latest album, The Old Magic (Yep Roc). "Lord, I never thought I'd see 30." Since recording that line, he's turned 62, but as "61" isn't a rhyme, he can easily bring the song up to date should he ever perform it live.

And no doubt his astonishment at having reached whatever ripe old age he'll be when he does perform it will only grow. He did, after all, cover the Faron Young hit "Live Fast, Love Hard, Die Young" in 1984 when, as an alcoholic and the soon-to-be ex-husband of Carlene Carter, he was still adhering to the first two parts of that song's advice. In short, he's been living on what he apparently considers borrowed time for several decades now.

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