unfairly treated for much too long.
message song that neatly puts all the modern problems into some kind of perspective.
experience. One you must seek out for yourself.
For many of you Steve Black will be an unknown quantity. I hope and trust that this will change over the coming months as Steve is one hell of a songwriter. He was recently awarded the accolade of The Best Original Song from the British Country Music Awards for 'You're On Your Own' a song to be found on stable mate Alan West's album "The Way It Is". However to return to this new collection of tunes from Steve, a follow up to 2006's "All I Saw", we have eleven new cuts. Utilising current technology it has been possible to produce the album in Devon but with most of the recordings completed in Nashville with top sessioners. The results have all the smooth gloss expected from Nashville projects however at no time does Steve himself sound American. So you have the almost unique situation where the album has a feel of both countries and it all works beautifully. The album opens with the rolling rhythms of 'Come On Home' a rather sad tale of wrong choices made in a young woman's life as told from a father's point of view. 'Down But Not Out' might have come straight out of Tony J White's cannon but nobody else could have written 'Lately', a deeply personal take on time spent in the Arctic. The top tunes keep coming including 'Chicago', 'I Think I Love You Tonight' and 'Miss You So'. 'Killing Fields' closes out the album and as the title suggests it is really an anti-war song which evokes all the associated horrors of conflict. Smartly political, yet not overly so, it packs a though provoking punch. This is a classy release showing we can match America's talent right here in U.K.