Title: Five Stars
Review: Retreating a bit from the country-tinged focus of his previous work, this cd is straighter-ahead, guitar-driven, balls-to-the-wall (whatever that means) rock and roll music. And some powerhouse ballads(not to be confused with 'power' ballads known to glom up FM radio). With whip-smart, say-just-enough lyrics. Although he doesn't have a great voice, he's got the right one. The crystalline production is come by rightly by Ethan Johns, the talented son of Glyn Johns, engineer/producer of, among others, The Rolling Stones whose work this CD much resembles. Adams' versality and prolificacy are frightening (as is the thought of ever using the word 'prolificacy' again). There are so many good songs here that they spill over onto a second CD. We are more than a bit reluctant to say that 'we have seen the future' of rock and roll, but we may have just met the new Boss.
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