BROWNSVILLE – Air Special +1 [Rock Candy remastered & reloaded] (2018) *EXCLUSIVE*

As requested, the Rock Candy remastered & reloaded version of Michigan’s very own BROWNSVILLE Station last album “Air Special“, including a bonus track. It’s inevitable that Brownsville Station will always be best remembered for their worldwide smash hit single ‘Smokin’ In The Boys’ Room’, a track recorded in 1973, and re-ignited twelve years later in 1985 by Mötley Crüe.
Signing with label giant Epic records and looking for a more melodic sound, 1978’s “Air Special” was produced by Tom Werman (Cheap Trick, Blue Oyster Cult, Molly Hatchet), and recorded in their native Ann Arbor with the Record Plant mobile studio.
With their name shortened to BROWNSVILLE, the band’s level of confidence was sky high, supported by a brace of well-written tracks, sitting very much in the late Seventies hard rock groove pioneered by the likes of Aerosmith, Ted Nugent and Kiss.
This baby rocks, and rocks great.

Brownsville Station may have shortened their name for this last great greasy gasp, but thankfully cut back on nothin’ else.
Werman gave the resulting album a big arena rock feel, with the drums of Henry “H-Bomb” Weck in particular booming in the mix. To push the band into mainstream, they recorded Hello’s recent hit “Love Stealer” as a gambit to get on AOR radio.
It failed, as did ”Air Special”, but it wasn’t for lack of quality.

The anthemic Kiss-like “Taste of Your Love” with its massive power chords, “Tears of a Fool” and “Never Say Die” are biting hard rockers – the latter taking on an ironic, almost eerie quality thanks to the state of the band, not to mention subtle synths.
And befitting a band with so much contempt for the disco and AOR dominating the charts, Brownsville does a
crushing rendition of Bo Diddley’s ”Who Do You Love”, Down the Road Apiece” and even a Benny Goodman instrumental, “Airmail Special” – rocked up like a ’70s Johnny & the Hurricanes, elevate this album to classic status.

”Air Special”, issued in 1978 in a very distinctive album cover, delivered on all fronts. Their muscular rock was primed, toned and given a period stadium rock makeover, gifting them a new born sense of possibility. Fretboard manglers Cub Koda and Bruce “Beezer” Nazarian trade gritty “meat ‘n taters” lead vocals, propelled by the smackdown rhythm section of Mike Lutz and H-Bomb Weck.
BROWNSVILLE is pure American rock n’roll, on this album more melodic and arena-sized thanks to the huge production. Very good, clear Rock Candy remaster.
Highly Recommended

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01 – Taste Of Your Love
02 – Waitin’ For The Weekend
03 – Who Do You Love
04 – Tears Of A Fool
05 – Cooda Crawlin’
06 – Air Mail Special
07 – Never Say Die
08 – Fever
09 – Love Stealer
10 – Let It Roll
11 – Down The Road Apiece
BONUS TRACK:
12 – Love Stealer [Single Version / Different Mix]

Cub Koda – vocals, guitars
Bruce “Beezer” Nazarian – vocals, guitars
Mike Lutz – bass, backing vocals
H-Bomb Weck – drums, percussion

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