{"id":7444,"date":"2012-04-03T14:26:44","date_gmt":"2012-04-03T04:26:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/maytherockbewithyou.com\/mtrbwy\/?p=7444"},"modified":"2012-04-03T14:27:46","modified_gmt":"2012-04-03T04:27:46","slug":"jack-blades-rock-n-roll-ride","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maytherockbewithyou.com\/mtrbwy\/2012\/04\/jack-blades-rock-n-roll-ride\/","title":{"rendered":"Jack Blades – Rock ‘n’ Roll Ride"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>In 25 words or less:\u201d It\u2019s gotta be said, as much as I enjoyed that last Night Ranger album, I think this Jack Blades solo release takes the cake.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Hot on the heels of Night Ranger\u2019s release last year, Somewhere In California <\/em>comes this mighty slab of rock in the form of a solo release from their front man, Jack Blades.\u00a0 Mixing a little bit stylistically from all eras of his career, this album truly is a \u201crock \u2018n\u2019 roll ride\u201d, and from the outset kicks off in high gear with a relentless energy and positivity and just doesn\u2019t let up. \u00a0Featuring contributions from his Night Ranger bandmates Brad Gillis, Kelly Keagy, Joel Hoekstra and Eric Levy, and also Cheap Trick\u2019s Robin Zander, the whole album just oozes the quality of musicianship and song writing that you would expect from an artist the calibre of Blades.<\/p>\n

The opening salvo of Back In The Game <\/em>and the title track are balls out rockers and would be right at home on a Damn Yankees release, particularly the latter, with those trademark Damn Yankees\/Blades chorus vocals featuring prominently.\u00a0 The seemingly autobiographical track Born For This <\/em>is an out and out rock anthem, what a chorus and what a real cracker of a song.<\/p>\n

Speaking of what a song\u2026Hardest Word To Say, <\/em>this song deserves a paragraph of it\u2019s own.\u00a0 If this isn\u2019t one of the greatest ballads I\u2019ve heard in a number of years, then I don\u2019t know what is.\u00a0 It undoubtedly would have been as big a song as Damn Yankees High Enough <\/em>if released back in the day.\u00a0 There\u2019s an almost Don Henley Boys Of Summer <\/em>vibe in the verses, but then the chorus just explodes with slightly country tinges.<\/p>\n

Featuring guest vocals from Cheap Trick\u2019s Robin Zander, Anything For You <\/em>has a real Tom Petty meets Cheap Trick meets The Beatlest kinda vibe, whereas West Hollywood <\/em>also sees Blades channelling an almost pyschadelic acoustic vibe.\u00a0 Elsewhere, more driving anthemic rock in the form of Love Life <\/em>and Say You Will <\/em>keeps the album delivering gem after gem right to the very end where the largely acoustic and bluesy Hey Now <\/em>closes the album.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s gotta be said, as much as I enjoyed that last Night Ranger album, I think this Jack Blades solo release takes the cake.\u00a0 Whatever you do don\u2019t let this album get under your guard, it\u2019s simply one of the finest quality rock albums you are going to hear this year.<\/p>\n

Essential Information\u00a0<\/span><\/h2>\n

For fans of:<\/strong> Jack Blades, Night Ranger, Damn Yankees and anthemic rock<\/p>\n

Release date: <\/strong>23 March 2012<\/p>\n

Record label:<\/strong> Frontiers Records\/Riot! Entertainment (Australia)<\/p>\n

Website: <\/strong>www.jackblades.net<\/a><\/p>\n\n

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