Tom Cochrane took on 13 excellently composed and dynamically arranged Heartland rock songs here. Mellencamp, Bob Seger, Bruce Springsteen and Bon Jovi - all who are here the closely related, but actually there is in this genre barely albums that can consistently have such a good songwriting. Everything goes into the ear and one wonders that this record of his time threw no more hits. Cochrane, who was then already counted 38 Lenze, was the appearance of this - his first - solo album already an old hand in the business, who had his recording career started in 1973.
The best he's here, he is a little dark, as in the title track, or the great, Brave & Crazy '. Clear the folk-rock songs have their charm and great melodies can be found here anyway to Hauf, but this uheilschwangere sentiment in the then crashes his powerful voice in the chorus like a thunderclap something quite thrilling.
The arrangements one hears 20 years partly already at (the excessive reverb on the drums, for example.) But that's still far tastier and more timeless than many comparable those years. Folk here is somehow still the base, but the skirt is in the foreground and is enriched when necessary sometimes to a little country.
Life is so unfair - as a Bryan Adams schnulzt years mega successful by the charts and this unequal talented compatriot of him ekes, One-Hit Wonder 'existence. Definitely a highly recommended disc for all heartland rock lover - and probably not my last Cochrane CD ...
