The right road

That would be the right road been for Texas. "Rick's Road" is in my opinion the best record of Texas, and in general a great album. Unfortunately, the album "Rick's Road" great injustice by the former music press has befallen, it is one of the many too bad marks for plates that have been forgotten then to hopefully eventually rediscovered, while other bad bands and plates (Pet Sounds by the Beach Boys, for example) are praised to the skies for decades because everyone parroting the other and believes nonsense sometime.
To the point, however: according to their hit (I Do not Want A Lover) from debut that a bit the dust in the name of the band wanted to Slide justice to me but still was too sterile, and not bad, but not exciting successor "Mother's Heaven" with a brazen Doors-plagiarism, had apparently tried to orient himself. "Rick's Road" follows the path of Glasgow's blue-eyed soul, paired with blues, and in spite of absolutely impeccable production, it is the most honest, the most rugged Texas plate. "Rick's Road" contains the Bank class songwriting, there is really no failures, Sharleen Spiteri sings better than ever before or since, and the songs that address the more or less separation and hope in a relationship, go through the depth of feeling in the voice deep under the skin. There are just incredible beautiful songs, but also rocky, funky, soulful.
But since the board flopped thanks to the lousy reviews, Texas beat then the nines way one, the mainstream of even broader, to the synths and the AOR, and have been for a short time again really successful, but had lost enormously in quality. And what do we learn from this?