Rossington

[RamonesFan2020204]

It's because of Wounded Bird Records that I've discovered all these obscurities from the Atlantic Records catalogue. This group was put together by Lynyrd Skynyrd guitarist Gary Rossington, and his wife, singer Dale Krantz-Rossington. They released one album for Atlantic Records in 1986 with "Returned To The Scene Of The Crime"., and this album is very mysterious. There's no pictures of the band on the album jacket or the inner sleeve. The cover is just a black and white photo of some street with a guitar outline that's made to look like it's mimicking a murder:



And the back of the LP jacket is just a red background with the song list, credits and lyrics, and the inner sleeve is pitch black. Very mysterious like I said. Anyway, the album's not bad, but it's nothing special either. If you're looking for something similar to Skynyrd here, you're in the wrong place, because it's nothing like it. This is a full-on pop rock album with loads of synthesizers, and is co-produced by Pete Solley (Kix, John Parr, Ted Nugent, Peter Frampton), and that's what made me look forward to hearing this, and while the album isn't bad, it just didn't really meet my expectations. The title track is great. It sounds like something that would've been in the first Terminator movie. I think the album's only single though was "Turn It Up", which is an okay song, but nothing special. A few other highlights are:

Wounded Again
Waiting In The Shadows
and Dangerous Love

Along with a few other songs.