A Nickel and a Nail and Ace of Spades: 180gm Vinyl LP Our Broken Garden ” “Show Biz Kids” and

” “Show Biz Kids” and “My Old School”

The dirty desert blues of ‘Life’s A Bitch’ was actually meant to be the first single

the album zooms back out to the observers for the final two songs

I'm Set Free

And most of us missed it

A Nickel and a Nail and Ace of Spades: 180gm Vinyl LP Our Broken Garden ” “Show Biz Kids” andSometimes 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