STEPHEN CRANE & DUANE SCIACQUA – Big Guns [1985 / Previously Unreleased] (2021)
“Big Guns“ is the second STEPHEN CRANE album, who was able to stir up the scene with his debut “Kicks“ in 1984. The follow-up “Big Guns“ was planned as a real band effort but once again for various (business) reasons the album was shelved.
Now AOR Heaven Records has rescued the album from obscurity and made it available after more than three decades. Re-evaluation has give the album credibility that it did not receive first time round and this then led to the discovery of, apparently, lost tapes featuring music planned for the second release that never happened.
A pity really as this is a very well crafted American AOR album very similar to the work put out at that time by SURVIVOR, TOTO, FRANKE & THE KNOCKOUTS or even HUEY LEWIS & THE NEWS. After all these years, “Big Guns” still speaks with a strong voice to the hearts of fans of the genre with ten excellent songs.
The sound quality is top notch. Sciacqua eventually found, remastered and even made some re-recording edits to the music which now brings us to the release of the second and long overdue album under the banner STEPHEN CRANE & DUANE SCIACQUA.
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