MARK STEIN – There’s a Light (2021)

MARK STEIN is best known as the founder, lead vocalist, keyboardist and songwriter of Vanilla Fudge, but also collaborated with all, from Tommy Bolin Band and Alice Cooper to Deep Purple and the Steve Miller Band, just to name a few.
It was time for Mark to release his first ever solo album ‘There’s A Light’, a collection of songs filled with his trademark vocals, piano and Hammond B3 riffs, delivering strong social content and convicting performances, from “We Are One” and “Racism” to his classic takes on “Ball of Confusion” and “People Got To Be Free”.
This is pure Classic Rock with a pulsating punch which resumes the last fifty years in Rock, at places in similar Cream and Vanilla Fudge vibe, others Benny Mardones / Eddie Money, even some early Journey / Kansas on songs like “Lyin”.

‘There’s A Light’, Mark’s first ever solo album is a thematic collection of ten songs which weave a remarkable story of what America was, has become, and may or may not face in its future. Mark said; “This is an album about hope, but at the same time, I had to sing about the dangers of division. As John Lennon once sang, it is time to “Come Together.”
I have had some of these songs in the can but didn’t really have the right outlet for them. When I started the newest collection of songs during the early weeks of the pandemic, it dawned on me that I had created an album with a theme. These songs are reflections of what the world is about now, and what we need to do to bring us together again.”

Stein has written and recorded songs whose titles pretty much sum up what they are about. “We Are One” speaks of this unity and what the world is capable of. In the similar vein and with a classic rock n’ roll background there’s “We Are Survivors,” “Lyin’”, “Let’s Pray for Peace,” along with powerful new versions of The Rascal’s “People Gotta Be Free,” and The Temptations’ “Ball of Confusion.”
“I love those two songs,” says Stein – “These songs are just as relevant today as they were over 50 years ago. As I often do with The Fudge, I gave both of these songs my own interpretation, providing as much punch and power as I could to each one.”

It’s a great selection of music, almost a lifetime’s worth of emotion and wisdom, and Mark bares his soul in every song with grace and a timelessness that only a true legend can deliver.
Highly Recommended

 

01 – We Are One
02 – Ball of Confusion
03 – We Are Survivors
04 – Lyin’
05 – Racism
06 – All Lives Matter
07 – Let’s Pray for Peace
08 – People Got to be Free
09 – Break it Down
10 – America the Beautiful

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www.amazon.co.uk/Theres-Light-Mark-Stein/dp/B09GTZNRQ6