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Title: Great, But Not His Greatest
Review: After losing Steve Van Zandt as songwriter, Billy Rush stepped in and wrote this and the next album. It's slightly schizophrenic as the words are in a more modern style while the tunes and arrangements remain fixed mainly in the R&B style that SSJ married to rock on Hearts of Stone. So if you're paying a lot of attention to the lyrics it can be awkward at times, but if you're just letting it rock you then it's got the same energy and verve as his other best works. If nothing else, buy it for the song "Time", with its loping bass, snaky groove in the verses and tight horn arrangement in the chorus. Billy Rush upped the amount of guitars on this and the next album (Love Is A Sacrifice), bringing it more into the 70s and 80s than the first three albums and it works really well.
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