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- Release date: February 26, 2010
- Label: Frontiers Records
- Producer: Brooks Paschal
- Style: Rock, AOR
- Related bands: Rick Springfield, Bad Company, Foreigner
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[voto: 3.75]
Intro
The beautiful voice of Brian Howe is back after a thirteen years pause.
Best tracks
I'm Back, There's This Girl, It Could Have Been You, How It Could Have Been, My Town
Notes
The former lead singer of Bad Company, with the mark who recorded the albums celebrated by the lovers of glossy sounds, to release this second solo album called the young Brooks Paschal, leader of the band Sullivan, to produce, play and write almost the whole album.
The two remained in Guatemala for a week and during this time they wrote the whole "Circus Bar", and both the album name and the photo of the cover come from their favorite bar in the small Central America Country.
These fourteen tracks (thirteen songs plus outro) are the result and they reveal the desire to rock of the British singer. The sound is dirty and more direct compared with the delicate "Tangled In Blue", reissued years later with the name "Touch"; there are good songs and the melody does not lack, indeed, there are many memorable songs.
What is missing are the big arrangement of keyboards and bog hooks, as if he had attempted a modern approach to a more classical genre.
The tracklist also features "How About That" and "Holy Water", originally published by his Bad Company, a choice I do not completely support, without these two songs the album would have probably been smoother and fresh.
Band
- Brian Howe – vocals
- guitars – Brooks Paschal, Dean Aicher, James Paul Wisner, Tyson Shipman, Pat Travers
- bass – Brooks Paschal, Miguel Gonzalez, Wayne Nelson
- drums – Matt Brown
- piano and strings – Luke Davids
Tracklist
- 01. I'm Back (B. Howe, B. Paschal) 3:23
- 02. Life's Mistery (B. Howe, B. Paschal) 3:23
- 03. There's This Girl (B. Howe, B. Paschal) 3:16
- 04. It Could Have Been You (B. Howe, B. Paschal) 3:02
- 05. I'm Surrounded (M. Gonzalez, B. Howe) 4:10
- 06. Flying (B. Howe, B. Paschal) 4:09
- 07. How It Could Have Been (J. Carlisi, B. Howe) 3:53
- 08. My Town (B. Howe, B. Paschal) 4:08
- 09. How About That (B. Howe, T. Thomas) 3:40
- 10. Feels Like Coming Home (B. Howe, B. Paschal) 4:18
- 11. If You Want Trouble (M. Gonzalez, B. Howe) 3:28
- 12. What Am I Feeling (B. Howe, B. Paschal) 4:40
- 13. Holy Water (B. Howe, T. Thomas) 4:47
- 14. Little George Street (B. Howe) 0:47
Discography
- Ted Nugent "Penetrator" (1984 Atlantic Records)
- Bad Company "Fame And Fortune" (1986 Atlantic Records)
- Bad Company "Dangerous Age" (1988 ATCO)
- Bad Company "Holy Water" (1990 ATCO)
- Bad Company "Here Comes Trouble" (1992 ATCO)
- Bad Company "What You Hear Is What You Get – Live" (1993 Atlantic Records)
- Brian Howe "Tangled In Blue" (1997 Touchwood Records)
- Brian Howe "Touch" (2003 MTM Music)
- Brian Howe "Circus Bar" (2010 Frontiers Records)
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