After the success of the song “Who Says You Can’t Go Home” with Jennifer Nettles, the band wanted to do a Nashville Influenced album. Heck, they had a #1 song on the country charts, won a Grammy for that song as well, why not try and repeat that success…and that my friend is the problem with this album. They were chasing that country hit. But don’t worry, the whole album doesn’t sound country, but that are a handful of tracks that you can definitely hear that influence.
The album came out on June 8, 2007 and debuted at #1 on the Billboard charts while also going Platinum status. The band was still finding success. The album is the band’s 10th album and the title, “Lost Highway”, was taken from the Lost Highway Records in Nashville. They recorded the album in Nashville with John Shanks back at the helm and Dan Huff who handled the country aspects of the songs. Now, it wasn’t all Nashville as they did spend time in Hollywood and Los Angeles recording some songs too…but this basically came out as a Country Record.
Jon and Richie wanted to write with some Nashville writers, but in the end, they weren’t that inspired so most of the songs on here are actually done by Jon, Richie and John Shanks. They did get a couple of Country artists to appear such as Big & Rich and LeAnn Rimes. The songs are influenced by a lot of what was going on in their lives with both Richie and David Bryan going through divorces, parents dying and basically life happening. And all that is inspiring, but did it translate in to inspiring songs? We will have to walk through the songs and find out.
Smith/Kotzen – Better Days…And Nights (LIVE) – (BMG Rights): Adrian Smith and Richie Kotzen are back and this time we get live and studio albums. You get 5 previously unreleased live tracks from theirTrans-Atlantic 22 Tour plus the four studio tracks featured on their sold out ‘Better Days’ vinyl EP!
Marcus Mumford – (self-titled) – (Capitol Records / UMG)
The Devil Wears Prada – Color Decay – (Solid State Records)
Michelle Branch – The Trouble with Fever – (Audio Eagle Records / Nonesuch Records)
Ringo Starr – EP3 E.P. – (Universal Music / Roccabella)
Pink Floyd – Animals (2018 Remix) – (Pink Floyd Music / Sony)
Creedence Clearwater Revival – At the Royal Albert Hall – (Craft Recordings / Concord)
LeAnn Rimes – God’s Work – (EverLe Records / Thirty Tigers)
Little Big Town – Mr. Sun – (Capitol Records / UMG)
Noah Cyrus – The Hardest Part – (Records Label / Columbia)
The Mars Volta – The Mars Volta – (Clouds Hill)
Death Cab for Cutie – Asphalt Meadows – (Atlantic Records / WEA)
Starcrawler – She Said – (Starcrawler Music / Big Machine Label Group)
Clutch – Sunrise on Slaughter Beach – (Weathermaker Music)
House of Lords – Saints & Sinners – (Frontiers Records)
Ginevra – We Belong to the Stars – (Frontiers Records)
Fans of the Dark – Suburbia – (Frontiers Records)
Joe Strummer & the Mescaleros – Joe Strummer 002: The Mescaleros Years – (Casbah Productions / Dark Horse Records / BMG)
The Black Angels – Wilderness of Mirrors – (Partisan Records)
Behemoth – Opvs Contra Natvram – (Nuclear Blast)
Edenbridge – Shangri-La – (AFM Records / Soulfood Music)
Wolfheart – King of the North – (Napalm Records)
Sumerlands – Dreamkiller – (Relapse Records)\
Lybica – Lybica – (Metal Blade Records)
Destrage – So Much. Too Much. – (3DOT Recordings / Many Hats Distribution)
Omophagia – Rebirth in Black – (Unique Leader Records)
Ondara – Spanish Villager No. 3 – (Verve Label Group / UMG)
Julian Lage – View With A Room – (Blue Note Records)
Miles Davis – That’s What Happened 1982-1985: The Bootleg Series Vol. 7 – (Columbia Records / Sony Music)
Samara Joy – Linger Awhile – (Verve Records / UMG)
Confessions of a Traitor – Punishing Myself Before God Does – (Facedown Records)
Bumpin’ Uglies – Mid-Atlantic Dub – (InEffable Records)
Danielle Ponder – Some of Us Are Brave – (Future Classic)
Surf Curse – Magic Hour – (Atlantic Records)
Cape Francis – Don’t Let Your Heart Walk Away – (Sleep Well Records)
Fletcher – Girl of My Dreams – (Capitol Records / Snapback Entertainment / UMG)
Djo – Decide – (AWAL Recordings)
Rhett Miller – The Misfit – (ATO Records)
Loveless – End of an Era – (Loveless)
The Murlocs – Rapscallion – (ATO Records)
The Darling Fire – Distortions – (Iodine Recordings)
Gogol Bordello – Solidaritine – (Das Grand Kapital / Cooking Vinyl)
Klangstof – Godspeed to the Freaks – (Velveteen Records)
The London Suede – Autofiction – (Suede Limited / BMG Rights Mgmt)
Rina Sawayama – Hold the Girl – (Dirty Hit)
Abstract – No More Hope for the Hopeless – (Abstract the Artist)
Whitney – Spark – (Secretly Canadian)
Maggie Lindemann – Suckerpunch – (swixxzaudio)
Lissie – Carving Canyons – (Lionboy Records)
The Beths – Expert in a Dying Field – (Carpark Records)
Electric Callboy – Tekkno – (Century Media Records)
Molly Lewis – Mirage E.P. – (Jagjaguwar)
Jimmy Carpenter – The Louisiana Record – (Gulf Coast Records / SoNo Recording Group)
Mitchell Tenpenny – This is the Heavy – (Riser House Entertainment / Sony Music)
We the Kingdom – We the Kingdom – (Sparrow Records / Capitol Records)
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