Bon Jovi - Lost Highway
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Artist: Bon JoviEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2007-06-19
Music Label: Mercury Nashville
Soundtracks:
- Lost Highway
- Summertime
- Make a Memory
- Whole Lot Of Leaving
- We Got It Going On
- Any Other Day
- Seat Next To You
- Everybody's Broken
- Stranger (feat. Leann Rimes)
- The Last Night
- One Step Closer
- I Love This Town
Free Music Notes for Lost Highway
Free Music Review: Aural Compost
Hit: 1 Stars
As a New Jersey resident, I am embarassed to come from a state that continues to be the trash processor for the northeastern US. It is products like this that make NJ's reputation for garbage well-deserved. For an ungodly amount of years, these clowns have churned out unlistenable, trite, derivative noise, which seems to be some kind of gender-based version of a dog whistle. By that I mean, only women seem to think this hair-band lite mush is great art, when all they really think is "Oooh, how cute they are". This is the ultimate "Video made the radio star" band, cranking out old Peter Framptom guitar licks over lyrics found on shopping bags and Cracker Barrel samplers. Bottom line: if you can stomach anything else these guys have made, you'll be able to take this without gagging. For everyone else, try the shallow end of the kiddie pool for something a little bit deeper and more challenging.
Lost Highway Poster
"Artistic freedom made this record possible," says Jon Bon Jovi. "Musical freedom to explore--and emotional freedom to express what was in our hearts."The result of that freedom is Lost Highway, an album Jon describes as "a Bon Jovi record influenced by Nashville."
Bon Jovi explains. "Nashville is all about songs and songwriters. If you're someone like me who loves songs and hanging out with songwriters, Nashville is the place. I thrive on that feeling and I'm inspired by that creative ambience."
The result, a haunting set of 12 new and original sounding songs, is a stunning, multi-layered look into the nature of love and life in all its glory. Love, like life, is lost, found, forgotten and reclaimed in this collection.
The moods are many, but the core feeling is pure Bon Jovi.
"Writing this record with Jon was deeply cathartic," says Richie Sambora, who collaborated on ten of the songs. "I was going through emotional changes that were new for me. An ailing father. A painful divorce. The start of a new chapter in my life. I poured everything I had into this project, every last bit of soul at my command."
"For over twenty years now," Jon explains, "Richie and I have been close collaborators. Even when our songs create fictional stories, they reveal our states of mind. To a large degree, Lost Highway focuses on the light that love brings. When you shine the light on love, you see the chinks in the armor. You see every crevice, every crack. And that's all right".
Lost Highway is Bon Jovi's tenth studio album since the band formed in the early eighties. One hundred and twenty million albums and 2500 concerts in over 50 countries later, Bon Jovi is enjoying the greatest popularity in their history.
Given the chart success of their Grammy-winning country single "Who Says You Can't Go Home," it's no surprise Bon Jovi upped the ante by recording an entire album paying homage to Nashville. In some ways, it's amazing they didn't do this sooner, given the way Keith Urban in particular is blurring country-pop lines, much as Garth Brooks and others did in the 1990s. To their credit, you won't find predictably shallow invocations of past country icons or any self-conscious, in-your-face down-home twang added strictly to remind the listener of the musical premise. In fact, Lost Highway isn't "Bon Jovi goes country" so much as a meaningful tribute to the Nashville ethos done on their own terms. They honor the spirit of the town through 12 simple, direct originals. The intimate, smoldering "(You Want To) Make a Memory," the ballad "Seat Next To You," "Lost Highway" and its roaring celebration of freedom, and "Stranger," an effective duet with LeAnn Rimes, all invoke country's spirit, and "I Love This Town," an eloquent nod to Nashville itself, ties it together admirably. --Rich Kienzle
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