Review; St Clair is guitarist Scott Sheets of Pat Benatar fame, and Ron Corbett on guitar and vocals. This album is definately going to strike a chord with many AOR fans out there.
It is acoustic driven classic style AOR, in a very similar vein to The Rembrants and Glen Butnik's more recent work, with a little Van Stephenson thrown in for good measure.
The album features a few guests, with the likes of Tim Pierce, (Crowded House, Bruce Springsteen) Donnie Nossof (John Waite) and Rudy Sarzo.(Ozzie Osbourne, White Snake), Vinnie Colaiuta (Sting, Herbie Hancock), Frank Briggs (Atlantic Starr, Mike Keneally), Jerry Goodman (Mahavishnu Orchestra) Jimmy Crespo (Aerosmith) to name a few.
For the most part, the album is laid back acoustic AOR, a good example would be to compare the feel to that of King Of Hearts. But there are a few moments where they hit out and come up with a couple of great AOR anthems. After The Fire, 3 Words and Something For Somebody are the best examples. This album may be a little too laid back for some, but if you are already a fan of the bands mentioned above, then you will be playing this for a while. Otherwise there are a few classic tunes, on this great release.
The lineup for this track is:
Scott Sheets - guitar
Ron Corbett - guitar, vocals
Bill Newkirk - bass
Frank Briggs - drums
Rcorded at Master Control studio - Burbank CA
Dan Nebenzal - engineer
I was doing a fair amount of recording with Scott Sheets and John Ondrasik (Five for Fighting) during the 90’s, some of the tracks that ended up on this album were originally demos for another project with John & Scott. Nice people and really good song writers... plus I got to work with Rudy Sarzo and Tim Pierce and the like in the process. .. great musicians.
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