Hughes Turner Project
HTP
MTM Music
2002
Founding out that Glenn Hughes and Joe Lynn Turner were about to release a new album, would make one think that two dirty-old men gathered in order to remember the good old times, create a big potato and earn some easy money. However having heard Turner’s good recent album “Slam”, I thought “hey let’s hear the project first, it might be good”. And I was half right, because the album is not good. It is magnificent! No joking now guys, if this record was released under the name of Rainbow, Whitesnake or Deep Purple, everyone would talk about “the masterpiece of the 00s”, “the best come back possible” etc…
So why not say the same thing for the two talented musicians? We are talking about a great album of British hard rock, with a variety of sounds and influences, catchy-yet qualitative refrains, a modern production, which avoids bore us to death with retro sounds. We are talking about a record with huge balls! The thunderous first track “Devil’s Road” doesn’t leave you any chance to ignore this album and leads you to the fantastic world that the two singers have created. Their performance is beyond criticism.
I’d only like to add that the whole project brings back memories form records like “Burn”, “Come Taste the Band” and “Difficult to Cure”, but everything is filtered through a more modern approach. I also have to cite John Sykes’ participation in the composition of the amazing song “Heaven Is Missing an Angel”. Good to hear him too after all this time. The album cannot take anything less than...
So why not say the same thing for the two talented musicians? We are talking about a great album of British hard rock, with a variety of sounds and influences, catchy-yet qualitative refrains, a modern production, which avoids bore us to death with retro sounds. We are talking about a record with huge balls! The thunderous first track “Devil’s Road” doesn’t leave you any chance to ignore this album and leads you to the fantastic world that the two singers have created. Their performance is beyond criticism.
I’d only like to add that the whole project brings back memories form records like “Burn”, “Come Taste the Band” and “Difficult to Cure”, but everything is filtered through a more modern approach. I also have to cite John Sykes’ participation in the composition of the amazing song “Heaven Is Missing an Angel”. Good to hear him too after all this time. The album cannot take anything less than...