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Great CD! Excellent lyrics. (Not all love songs..) Real world stuff. Great music and a unique sound. Sounds classic hard rock, but fresh. Lou proved he's still got it on this one for sure.
Phil Naro is awesome! And that drumer Joe Llama.. is incredible!!
Heard that Kivel records has abandon the artist and he's on his own. Typical of record companies. Stiff and run..
Please search out the artist to purchase if you can. www.donmancuso.com, or the signed ones on Amazon!

Very strong release by Rochester,NY. guitarist Don Mancuso. Most tracks written by Don & buddy Phil Naro (Talas,24K,solo),with Naro singing lead on majority of the tunes. Also features long-time associate & former bandmate(Black Sheep) Lou Gramm on several tracks. Gramm shines as well-great to hear him singing again! Overall, a disc chock full of very melodic,hard-edged rockers with Don's signature guitarwork in the forefront-very tasteful soloing as well.There's even a funky jazzed-up track with horns and a cover of one of my fav. Beatle songs-'Hey Bulldog' to round out the affair. Highly recommended!!

It's tough to discover gems (of any kind) these days because there is so much out there! How did I come across this CD? Well, I live in a suburb of Rochester, NY and I was trying to find out whatever happened to Lou Gramm, no foreigner to anyone from Rochester, NY. As I journeyed through piles of bytes of information in the Internet, learning that he had had a brain surgery for a benign tumor in his brain, and how all that recovery had affected him vocally, and how the founder of his previous band parted ways with him due to differences in musical taste (bs!) I found Lou Gramm in one of the songs in this CD called "You're Never Alone". And Gramm is not alone in this CD, he is with another Rochesterean, Don Mancuso.