38 SPECIAL Strength In Numbers - 2004 reissue Southern Rock CD
Format: CD Condition: New Year of Release: 2004 Cat. No.: 215115 Label: Universal Special Products
***** Don Barnes rules (literally) By Daisy Ghostly (Odense, Denmark)
This, the last album to feature Don Barnes on lead-vocals before he left, is filled with great songs. The sound is poppier than ever before... and then again it's not. It's really only on the first hearing; then you realize there's plenty of hard hitting guitar-work.
The band (or producer Keith Olsen) seem to have decided that Barnes' voice is better suited for these songs, than co-lead-singer Donnie Van Zant; and thus Barnes is now given the bulk of songs. And he is indeed one of the best in the trade. (-I've always loved the way he sometimes starts a line way deep.) My favorite album of theirs has always been "Tour De force", but this one comes very close. Too bad he left the band when he did; things were never to be the same again.
TRACK LISTING:
1 Somebody Like You 2 Like No Other Night 3 Last Time 4 Once In A Lifetime 5 Just A Little Love 6 Has There Ever Been A Good Goodbye 7 One In A Million 8 Heart's On Fire 9 Against The Night 10 Never Give An Inch
