![]() ![]() Given his age, 69 years old, it’s in good shape but it’s still surprising, mostly because we haven’t heard from him in decades. Perry’s voice is still elastic, but it’s huskier, scratchier and, at its worst, hoarser than it was in his glory years. ![]() And “Most of All” drips with emotion as Perry croons for “the ones who’ve lost their most of all.” “Sun Shines Gray” is a driving rocker that goes anyway he wants it (lots of slower, quieter parts for the singing and heavier parts in between). Lead single “No Erasin'” could be a Journey song with its crashing piano and guitar riffs and Perry’s reminiscences of hooking up with an old flame in the backseat of his car. The album is very much a classic Steve Perry record, full of dramatic schmaltz, nostalgia and the occasional rocker. 'Silence of the Lambs': 'It Broke All the Rules'Ĭhasteness, Soda Pop, and Show Tunes: The Lost Story of the Young Americans and the Choircore Movement So he decided to make good on that promise and record Traces, his third solo LP overall and first full-length in nearly a quarter century. “She made me promise not to keep isolating myself anymore,” he wrote in an explanatory statement. A woman he fell in love with encouraged him to return to singing before her death. He’s since revealed that he was suffering from music-biz malaise. He could be forgiven for his absence because it was easy to picture him out there living out his songs, lovin’, touchin’, squeezin’ in private. in the early part of his solo career, with “Oh Sherrie.” But then he went into near seclusion, emerging for only the occasional recording session, baseball game or (most quizzically) an Eels concert. His last recordings at the time, bonus tracks on a greatest hits comp, allowed him to stretch his elastic vocal cords to great heights, the likes of which he’d soared to with Journey and. Two decades ago, Steve Perry walked away from a legacy of carefree rockers and sentimental torch songs. ![]()
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