Tracks: Static On The Radio, The Letting Go, Long Way Home, Here I Go, Tonight, Me and the Memory of You, Around, The Last American Dreamer, Good Thing, You and Me
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Verdict (& Rating): A solid slice of 'Americana' rock (80%)
This debut independent album by Scott was actually released some 3 years ago and has sold something around 20000 copies so far. My main reason for reviewing it now is to set the scene for his new release "Get The Picture".
The overall sound here is Bryan Adams meets John Cougar Mellencamp i.e. a mid-western AOR sound. The album is crammed full of a good mixture of rockers and ballads.On the rockers think Bryan Adams and on the mid-tempo and ballads think JCM. On a couple of tracks I hear a little Joey Tempest ("Long Way Home" & "Here I Go". And on "Tonight" a little Tom Petty. "Good Thing" takes a little detour with light funk ala Dan Reed.
Scott gets your 'blood pumping' on tracks like opener and title track "Static On The Radio", but it was slower/mid-tempo tracks like "The Letting Go", "Long Way Home", ballad "Me and the Memory of You", "Good Thing" and the excellent "The Last American Dreamer", that stand out for me. "Around" was the pick of the rockers.
This really is a good sounding album and I think that maybe if I had listened to it in isolation, it may well have squeezed a higher rating out of me. Now let's see what he did on the follow up "Get The Picture".
