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Lost Highway
by: Bon Jovi

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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0602517328082
Label: Mercury Nashville
Manufacturer: Mercury Nashville
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Mercury Nashville
Release Date: June 19, 2007
Sales Rank: 1046
Studio: Mercury Nashville

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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 reclaimed 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 father. 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 recording 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 intimate, 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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- My first Bon Jovi album!
This is my first Bon Jovi album that I bought. I've always been a fan of the band ever since I first heard "Livin On A Prayer" when I was really young. I liked their sound and even though it's changed a bit since their hits in the 80's it's still a welcome return from one of my favorite bands. Some have called this album "Bon Jovi goes country." While not entirely true, there is some country aspects to this album such as the duet with LeAnn Rimes and a collaboration with Big And Rich. My favorite song is the single "(You Want To) Make A Memory." It was one of my favorite singles of 2007! Bon Jovi had a lot to prove with this album and I would definately reccomend it to Bon Jovi fans old and new. I look forward to buying more music from this band!

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- Not Bad!
The album is not bad. I was expecting the same music that was on his cable concert and that is not what was on the album. So including the diapointment that the main song I wanted was not on it I have to say that the album was just "OK".

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- Artistic Statement (?)
For 25 years Bon Jovi has been keeping the Jersey Shore Sound alive, but unless Southside and others (most famously The Boss) they have always been combining it. This time the choice fell on country. Yes, it's not a joke, it's country... although using a banjo in the background or just having "Big & Rich" sing with you doesn't necessarily constitute Country... or Western for that matter.

And let's be frank, Jon can give a thousand more interviews telling everybody who doesn't want to hear it that evolving into country is just an artistic statement, this record has foremost paid off econonomically for the band. It was just a given that any country-pop-rock-combination would work in small-town America, the first Billboard #1 debut since "New Jersey" is just proof of that.

But let's stick with Jon's argument: Let's assume that this album is just an artistic statement, just about the beauty ... Read More

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- Another great Bon Jovi album
I got this as soon as it came out. Another great album from the guys in NJ. It certainly has a much more country sound than any of their earlier work, but that's not a bad thing. A slightly different flavor, but still distinctly Bon Jovi. Didn't like it quite as much as Have a Nice Day, but it's still a great album.

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