Author: Bon Jovi

Brand: Umgd/Universal Records

Format: Remixes included

Release Date: 2007-06-19

Details: Product Description Artistic freedom is what 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 dynamic freedom is the new 12 songs CD Lost Highway - an album Jon describes as a Bon Jovi record influenced by Nashville. Bon Jovi has sold 120 million albums and performed 2,500 concerts in over 50 countries for more than 32 million people Who Says You Can't Go Home (with Jennifer Nettles of Sugarland) from Have A Nice Day won a Grammy and People's Choice Award Lost Highway is Bon Jovi's tenth studio album since the band formed in the eighties. Lost Highway is produced by Dann Huff (Keith Urban, Rascal Flatts) and John Shanks (who co-produced Have A Nice Day, and whose credits include Sheryl Crow, Melissa Etheridge, Chris Isaak and others) Amazon.ca 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 tribute 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

UPC: 602517328082

EAN: 0602517328082

Languages: English

Binding: Audio CD

Item Condition: UsedVeryGood