When I was still in college, I knew that if I ever was on my deathbed and had one album to play, it would be Ronnie Lane’s Anymore for Anymore. Don’t ask me why I thought about these things. In listening to that album again the other day, though my tastes have changed drastically over the past couple of years, I must say it’s still as revelatory an experience as I remembered it. Sadly, Lane seems completely lost in the annals of folk/grease-rock. The Faces, and their previous incarnation as the Small Faces, put together some of the best Stonesy rock in the early-seventies not penned by Richards/Jagger. A Nod is As Good as a Wink. . . is grungy bluesrock at its most decrepit, and though Ooh La La was a step backwards, the Lane-written title track and “If I’m On the Late Side” were some of its proudest moments. With Ron Wood and Rod Stewart pushed to the front, Lane never got his proper due, though the rest of the band knew exactly who was driving their sound. When he left the collapsing Faces and released Anymore for Anymore in 1974, he reverted to his more folky songwriting, and the result was one of the landmark albums of the mid-seventies. Still, I’ve never actually met anyone who owned a copy. Sure, it’s harder to find than his half-assed soundtrack with Wood, Mahoney’s Last Stand, or his one-off collaboration with Pete Townshend (both for too obvious reasons), but it’s a far more concise effort. Each song glides into the next without strain. In a perfect world, this would be the ideal candidate for a Classic Music Review.