Originally named Slooot & recorded in early December 2011. However, it spent a great deal of the subsequent months warming the bench in the substitute folder, of which there were approximately 150 'team-mates'. It was recently recalled to action and was a lot of fun to play, taking only a few hours to conjure, as soon as the drum kit (Jazzfang] was tuned.. just how I like it. The guitar is a Stratocaster tuned up half a step. The lyric-content for Love's No Friend, was intended for another song, which was later discarded. 'Love's No Friend Of Mine' will probably be the first and the last Russo single. It also allows me to hang-up what would have been a wasted album cover-shot, which wouldn't have fitted the rest of the music on, what is at the moment a guideline final track-list for Russo album no.10.
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