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"Artistic freedom 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 freedom is Lost Highway, an album Jon
describes as "a Bon Jovi record influenced by Nashville."
Bon Jovi explains. "Nashville is all about songs and songwriters.
If you're someone like me who loves songs and hanging out with
songwriters, Nashville is the place. I thrive on that feeling and
I'm inspired by that creative ambience."
The result, a haunting set of 12 new and original sounding songs,
is a stunning, multi-layered look into the nature of love and
life in all its glory. Love, like life, is lost, found, forgotten
and recled in this collection.
The moods are many, but the core feeling is pure Bon Jovi.
"Writing this record with Jon was deeply cathartic," says Richie
Sambora, who collaborated on ten of the songs. "I was going
through emotional changes that were new for me. An ailing her.
A painful divorce. The start of a new chapter in my life. I
poured everything I had into this project, every last bit of soul
at my command."
"For over twenty years now," Jon explains, "Richie and I have
been close collaborators. Even when our songs create fictional
stories, they reveal our states of mind. To a large degree, Lost
Highway focuses on the light that love brings. When you shine the
light on love, you see the chinks in the armor. You see every
crevice, every crack. And that's all right".
Lost Highway is Bon Jovi's tenth studio album since the band
formed in the early eighties. One hundred and twenty million
albums and 2500 concerts in over 50 countries later, Bon Jovi is
enjoying the greatest popularity in their history.
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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 an entire album paying homage 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 , 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
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Review
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"Over a pulsing crescendo of acoustic guitars, piano and
strings, Bon Jovi delivers his most soulful vocal in years..." --
Billboard Magazine, April 2007
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