Shadow King (album)
| Shadow King | |
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| Shadow King's studio album | |
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Publication |
October 1, 1991 |
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admission |
1991 |
| Label (s) | Atlantic Records |
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Format (s) |
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Title (number) |
10 |
| occupation | |
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Keith Olsen |
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Studio (s) |
Goodnight LA Studio |
Shadow King is the only album released by the hard rock band of the same name .
background
Singer Lou Gramm had left the band Foreigner after two successful solo albums and founded the band Shadow King in 1991 with guitarist Vivian Campbell , who had left the Riverdogs . Gramm brought Bruce Turgon into the group as bass player, with whom he had worked in the band Black Sheep before joining Foreigner. The quartet was completed by the drummer Kevin Valentine, a well -known American session musician.
Led by producer Keith Olsen, the group recorded their debut album at Goodnight LA Studios , for which Gramm and Turgon wrote almost all of the songs.
The album was released on October 1, 1991, when the title I Want You was released as a single .
The band and album were not a commercial success. Campbell received the offer to succeed the late Steve Clark at Def Leppard and accepted it. Shadow King only appeared once, on December 13, 1991, at a concert at the London Astoria , after which the group broke up.
The album was in 2018 by Rock Candy Records re- mastered and re-released.
Track list
| Shadow King | |||
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| No. | title | Songwriter | length |
| 1. | What would it take | Lou Gramm / Bruce Turgon | 4:23 |
| 2. | Anytime, anywhere | Lou Gramm / Bruce Turgon | 4:26 |
| 3. | Once Upon a Time | Lou Gramm / Bruce Turgon | 5:23 |
| 4th | Don't Even Know I'm Alive | Lou Gramm / Bruce Turgon | 5:08 |
| 5. | boy | Lou Gramm / Bruce Turgon | 4:03 |
| 6th | I want you | Lou Gramm / Bruce Turgon | 4:29 |
| 7th | This Heart of Stone | Lou Gramm / Bruce Turgon | 4:36 |
| 8th. | Danger in the Dance of Love | Lou Gramm / Bruce Turgon | 3:57 |
| 9. | No Man's Land | Lou Gramm / Bruce Turgon | 4:12 |
| 10. | Russia | Vivian Campbell / Lou Gramm | 3:45 |
reception
In 1991, Rock Hard wrote about the album that Gramm seemed to have “recognized that a big name is not always a guarantee for resounding success”, but that “an excellent backing band could quickly remedy this”. Therefore, he has “gathered a“ more than powerful group ”. The result is“ AOR at its best. ”With songs like the“ superb ”opener What Would It Take , the catchy Once Upon A Time , the atmospheric I Want You or the Ballade Russia has “Mr. Gramm once again proved that he still belongs to the best that Melodic Rock has to offer.
Rocks wrote about the 2018 new edition: How Gramm had “imagined the future of his old band,” he clarified with Shadow King . The album appears, "embedded in a freshly cool sound design by Keith Olsen," like a "harder version of the singer's solo records". Gramm himself contributes to the "considerable energy level" by singing, "as if it were about bare survival."