A due anni dal grande successo di Have A Nice Day, i Bon Jovi sono back top the American charts with Lost Highway, announced that turning point towards a more intimate sound, as a former unruly boys, now grown.
Boasting ten albums and stratospheric figure of 120 million copies sold worldwide during un'oltre twenty-year career that has never experienced decline, the quintet U.S. is today as much more soft with a sound that leaves the excess metal, the solos of guitarist Richie Sambora violent and angry cries of Jon BonJovi, to arrive at a reassuring pop-rock with a strong and effective impression country, absorbed in that of Nashville - capital of the world famous the music of the cowboy - dove l’album è stato concepito e registrato.
L’apertura di Lost Highway tuttavia, richiama immediatamente le più classiche sonorità bonjoviane, con la trascinante title track e la solare e briosa Summertime, cui segue il primo singolo estratto, l’ultra melodica (You Want To) Make A Memory struggente ballad di tastiere, violini e toni commossi.
Si procede con Whole Lot Of Leaving la prima traccia indiscutibilmente country dell’album, e la ritmata We Got It Going On che si avvale della collaborazione di Big & Rich - moderni rappresentanti del country pop americano - per giungere alle avvolgenti atmosfere della delicata Seat Nex To You che esplora the painful events in the group (the recent death of Sambora's father, his divorce by actress Denise Richards and his drinking problem) and Till We Is not Strangers Anymore, one of the top songs in the album duet with the warm voice of Lee Ann Rymes, American starlets, famous in Italy for the successful soundtrack to the film Coyote Ugly.
And yet moments of melancholy reflections with One Step Closet, soothing piano ballad played on a widely prevalent and interspersed with energetic guitar solos, which anticipates a closing album of crackling energy and entrusted addictive I Love This Town.
A mild and pleasant album, which spells out a necessary process of evolution and a clear need to reinvent themselves, with some peak of pure melodic energy next to large, from avoiding listening to Bon Jovi and nostalgia for the 80s.
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