BON JOVI – We Don’t Run / Saturday Night Gave Me Sunday Morning (2015)

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We will have a real rockin’ BON JOVI new album when next August 21 the band release ‘Burning Bridges‘. The CD features songs composed several years ago (some from the Slippery When Wet era) but never included into any official album.
Two tracks are already available as advanced singles; “Saturday Night Gave Me Sunday Morning” and “We Don’t Run”.

From the brown-bag artwork, the album suggests this is some sort of stopgap collection, and indeed it’s been called a project “for fans” that’s arriving while the group remains at work on a new recording for full-scale release in 2016.
A glad they did it judging the quality of the songs!

“We Don’t Run” has the hard rocking spirit of second half ’80s Bon Jovi, anthemic and with Jon delivering a gritty vocal performance, something we all miss since many years.
“Saturday Night Gave Me Sunday Morning” is more melodic rock, mid-tempo oriented in the vein of the band’s early ’90s sound.
“We Don’t Run” was co-written by Jon Bon Jovi and long-time collaborator John Shanks, who also contributed with a meaty production and a shredding guitar solo. The new album ‘Burning Bridges’ takes its name from this song chorus, whose lyrics read in part “Not afraid of burning bridges/ ‘Cause I know they’re gonna light my way / Like a phoenix from the ashes / Welcome to the future, it’s a new day.”

‘Burning Bridges’ marks the first full-length recording the band will release since the departure of co-founding guitarist Richie Sambora. Richie said he left in order to push himself creatively.
Jon Bon Jovi turned to Philip Eric Xenidis (whose stage name is Phil X) to fill in during the latter part of Sambora’s tenure. The lineup of the band now is rounded out by fellow co-founders David Bryan and Tico Torres, as well as bassist Hugh McDonald, who has been with Bon Jovi since the early ’90s.

“We Don’t Run” and “Saturday Night Gave Me Sunday Morning” deliver the Bon Jovi we all love.
I’m sure ‘Burning Bridges’ will surprise us all with really good old-school rocking material that made the band famous.
Great songs.

We Don’t Run (3:17)
Saturday Night Gave Me Sunday Morning (3:23)

Pre-Order:
itunes.apple.com/us/album/burning-bridges/id1022981530
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