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My favorite things to post, must be the unreleased albums. I mean really, that's as good as it gets, even if the music isn't always as good as what you know the artist is capable of. And sometimes it is as good as you hope it would be. For all you
38 Special fans, here is the unreleased Don Barnes album from 1989. And every bit as good as you would expect. Since Don has always been the main provider of 38 Special songs, it should come as no surprise that his music bears heavy similarities to
Donnie van Zant's band. Don has been responsible for their biggest hits and has a knack for writing commercial songs of good quality. And this album is just full of that. I guess it leans even more towards straight-up AOR than any
38 Special album, but this is well worth your attention. (I found myself in the kitchen singing Foreigner lyrics to one of the songs here ;-)
I'm not too crazy about the quality and I bet there might be better copies out there hiding from us. Someone tried to clean up the sound by using standard noise filters which, I'm afraid, didn't do it a world of good. Then a gain, it didn't do a world of hurt either, so I won't complain. I'm happy I get to listen to this! If you're up for some quality Southern AOR, grab your chance and
ride the storm!
While a lot of people wonders about the
legitimacy of many historical bands still active or sadden the current
musical quality that they offer, there's a band that commands
respect. And this band is the Outlaws. Even though Hughie Thomasson
departed this world - leaving unfinished his comeback attempt - the band
takes off again with a freshness worthy of the first day and a new
record at the level of his first LPs ... those whom Henry Paul was part,
and Henry Paul that has now taken over the command of the Outlaws...
