Rockpile was the first solo album by Dave Edmunds

Dave Edmunds

David 'Dave' Edmunds is a Welsh singer, guitarist and record producer. Although he is primarily associated with Pub rock and New Wave, and had numerous hits in the 1970s and early 1980s, his natural leaning has always been towards 1950s style rock and roll.-Early bands:As a teenager Edmunds first...

, released in 1972. It is principally focused on remakes of late 1950s and early 1960s hits, with a few new songs included. Edmunds plays almost all the instruments except for bass and backing vocals, which are contributed by John Williams, Edmunds' former bandmate in Love Sculpture

Love Sculpture

Love Sculpture were a Welsh blues-rock band of the late 1960s, led by Dave Edmunds , plus bassist John Williams - stage name John David and drummer Rob 'Congo' Jones .-Career:Love...

. The album included a 1970 British #1 and worldwide Top 10 single, "I Hear You Knocking

I Hear You Knocking

"I Hear You Knocking" is a popular rhythm and blues song with emphatic syncopation, written by Dave Bartholomew and Pearl King and published in 1955. The original recording was made by Smiley Lewis, reaching #2 on the Billboard R&B singles chart.The lyrics concern a former lover whose knocking at...

". A 2001 reissue of the album includes both sides of Edmunds' three pre-album singles as bonus tracks.

Track listing

1. "Down Down Down" (Trevor Burton
   Trevor Burton
   Trevor Burton is a British guitarist and was one of the original members of The Move.-Danny King & The Mayfair Set:...
   
   ) - 2:52
2. "I Hear You Knocking
   I Hear You Knocking
   "I Hear You Knocking" is a popular rhythm and blues song with emphatic syncopation, written by Dave Bartholomew and Pearl King and published in 1955. The original recording was made by Smiley Lewis, reaching #2 on the Billboard R&B singles chart.The lyrics concern a former lover whose knocking at...
   
   " (Dave Bartholomew
   Dave Bartholomew
   Dave Bartholomew is a musician, band leader, composer and arranger, prominent in the music of New Orleans throughout the second half of the 20th century...
   
   , Pearl King) - 2:48
3. "Hell of a Pain" (John Williams, Dave Edmunds
   Dave Edmunds
   David 'Dave' Edmunds is a Welsh singer, guitarist and record producer. Although he is primarily associated with Pub rock and New Wave, and had numerous hits in the 1970s and early 1980s, his natural leaning has always been towards 1950s style rock and roll.-Early bands:As a teenager Edmunds first...
   
   ) - 2:55
4. "It Ain't Easy
   It Ain't Easy (song)
   "It Ain't Easy" is a song written and originally recorded by Ron Davies. Davies recorded the song on his 1970 album Silent Song Through the Land...
   
   " (Ron Davies) - 3:11
5. "Promised Land
   Promised Land (song)
   "Promised Land" is a song lyric written by Chuck Berry to the melody of "Wabash Cannonball", an American folk song. The song was first recorded in this version by Chuck Berry in 1964 for his album St. Louis to Liverpool. Released in 1965, it was Berry's first single issued following his prison term...
   
   " (Chuck Berry
   Chuck Berry
   Charles Edward Anderson "Chuck" Berry is an American guitarist, singer, and songwriter, and one of the pioneers of rock and roll music. With songs such as "Maybellene" , "Roll Over Beethoven" , "Rock and Roll Music" and "Johnny B...
   
   ) - 2:37
6. "Dance Dance Dance" (Neil Young
   Neil Young
   Neil Percival Young, OC, OM is a Canadian singer-songwriter who is widely regarded as one of the most influential musicians of his generation...
   
   ) - 2:58
7. "(I'm a) Lover Not a Fighter" (Ron Collier
   Ron Collier
   Ron Collier, was a Canadian jazz trombonist, composer and arranger.Collier was born in Vancouver and attended Vancouver Tech. He studied music privately in Toronto with Gordon Delamont...
   
   ) - 3:33
8. "Egg or the Hen" (Willie Dixon
   Willie Dixon
   William James "Willie" Dixon was an American blues musician, vocalist, songwriter, arranger and record producer. A Grammy Award winner who was proficient on both the Upright bass and the guitar, as well as his own singing voice, Dixon is arguably best known as one of the most prolific songwriters...
   
   ) - 4:15
9. "Sweet Little Rock & Roller" (Chuck Berry
   Chuck Berry
   Charles Edward Anderson "Chuck" Berry is an American guitarist, singer, and songwriter, and one of the pioneers of rock and roll music. With songs such as "Maybellene" , "Roll Over Beethoven" , "Rock and Roll Music" and "Johnny B...
   
   ) - 2:39
10. "Outlaw Blues
    Outlaw Blues (song)
    "Outlaw Blues" is a song by Bob Dylan. It was originally released in 1965 on Dylan's fifth studio album, Bringing It All Back Home.An alternate version of the song was released as part of the "Three Song Sampler - EP", which contained outtakes from the soundtrack of the Martin Scorsese Dylan...
    
    " (Bob Dylan
    Bob Dylan
    Bob Dylan is an American singer-songwriter, musician, poet, film director and painter. He has been a major and profoundly influential figure in popular music and culture for five decades. Much of his most celebrated work dates from the 1960s when he was an informal chronicler and a seemingly...
    
    ) - 5:09

bonus tracks (2001 reissue)

1. "I Hear You Knocking
   I Hear You Knocking
   "I Hear You Knocking" is a popular rhythm and blues song with emphatic syncopation, written by Dave Bartholomew and Pearl King and published in 1955. The original recording was made by Smiley Lewis, reaching #2 on the Billboard R&B singles chart.The lyrics concern a former lover whose knocking at...
   
   " (single mix) (Bartholomew, King) - 2:48
2. "Black Bill" (Dave Edmunds) - 3:09
3. "I'm Coming Home" (arr. Dave Edmunds) - 3:02
4. "Country Roll" (Dave Edmunds) - 3:11
5. "Blue Monday
   Blue Monday (Fats Domino song)
   "Blue Monday" is a song originally written by Dave Bartholomew, and first recorded by Smiley Lewis in 1954.It was later popularized in a recording by Fats Domino in 1956, on Imperial Records , on which the songwriting credit was shared between Bartholomew and Domino. Most later versions have...
   
   " (Dave Bartholomew
   Dave Bartholomew
   Dave Bartholomew is a musician, band leader, composer and arranger, prominent in the music of New Orleans throughout the second half of the 20th century...
   
   , Fats Domino
   Fats Domino
   Antoine Dominique "Fats" Domino, Jr. is an American R&B and rock and roll pianist and singer-songwriter. He was born and raised in New Orleans, Louisiana, and Creole was his first language....
   
   ) - 2:51
6. "I'll Get Along" (John Williams) - 2:50

Personnel

• Dave Edmunds
  Dave Edmunds
  David 'Dave' Edmunds is a Welsh singer, guitarist and record producer. Although he is primarily associated with Pub rock and New Wave, and had numerous hits in the 1970s and early 1980s, his natural leaning has always been towards 1950s style rock and roll.-Early bands:As a teenager Edmunds first...
  
   - vocals, guitars, bass, keyboards, drums
• John Williams - bass, backing vocals
• Andy Fairweather-Low
  Andy Fairweather-Low
  Andrew Fairweather Low is a Welsh guitarist, songwriter and vocalist. He was a founding member of 1960s British pop band, Amen Corner, and in recent years has toured extensively with Roger Waters, Eric Clapton and Bill Wyman's Rhythm Kings.-Early career:Fairweather Low first found fame as a...
  
   - guitar and drums on "Egg or the Hen"
• Terry Williams
  Terry Williams (drummer)
  Terrence "Terry" Williams is a Welsh rock drummer, whose resume includes work for Dire Straits, B. B. King, and Bob Dylan....
  
   - drums on "Down Down Down" and "Outlaw Blues"
• B. J. Cole
  B. J. Cole
  Brian John Cole is an English pedal steel guitarist. Coming to prominence in the early 1970s with the band Cochise, Cole has played in many styles of music, ranging from mainstream pop and rock, to jazz and eclectic experimental music.He played and is heavily featured with Deke Leonard's Help...
  
  - pedal steel guitar on "Down Down Down", "Dance Dance Dance" and "Outlaw Blues"