Le Roux - Last Safe Place (1982) (Rock Candy Remastered 2013)

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Le Roux - Last Safe Place (1982) (Rock Candy Remastered 2013)

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Le Roux - Last Safe Place (1982) (Rock Candy Remastered 2013)

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Year : 1982 (Rock Candy Remastered 2013)
Style : Melodic Rock , Melodic Hard Rock , AOR
Country : United States
Audio : 320 kbps + all scans + Videos
Size : 180 mb


Bio:

LeRoux (also known as Louisiana's LeRoux) is a band founded in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA that saw its heyday from 1978 to 1984. Their best-known songs were "Take a Ride On a Riverboat" with its 4-part a capella intro, the regional smash "New Orleans Ladies", "Nobody Said It Was Easy (Lookin' For the Lights)" (their highest charting single), "Addicted", and "Carrie's Gone". The band continues to perform live throughout the U.S., mostly at fairs and festivals in the Louisiana area.In 1977 several former members of a group called the Levee Band, who had been playing as backup players for Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown and Clifton Chenier, signed a deal with Capitol Records as The Jeff Pollard Band. Leon Medica, the band's producer and bassist, had presented a demo tape to Paul Tannen at Screen Gems-EMI while doing a session in Nashville and making trips to Colorado to contribute bass parts to a Nitty Gritty Dirt Band album at William McEuen's Aspen recording Society Studios. McEuen, Tanney, and Attorney John Frankenheimer helped Medica secure the contract with Capitol.By early 1978, they had changed their name to Louisiana's LeRoux, which refers to roux, a Cajun gravy base used to make gumbo. The band was originally composed of Jeff Pollard (vocals, guitars), David Peters (drums, percussion, backing vocals), Leon Medica (bass, backing vocals), Tony Haselden (vocals, guitars), Rod Roddy (vocals, keyboards, synthesizers), and Bobby Campo (horns, percussion, violin, backing vocals). All of the songs on the self-titled 1978 debut album were sung and written by Pollard, except "New Orleans Ladies", which was written by Hoyt Garrick with a contribution by Medica. It reached #59 on the Billboard Hot 100 in the summer of 1978. Two more albums followed (Keep the Fire Burnin in 1979, and Up in 1980), but after neither was able to expand the band's fan base, they were dropped by Capitol.Starting with the Jai Winding-produced Up, they dropped "Louisiana's" from their name and became simply "LeRoux". In 1981 they signed with RCA and issued their 4th LP, Last Safe Place, which was their highest-charting album. The album spawned three hit Billboard singles in 1982: "Addicted" (#8 Mainstream Rock), "Nobody Said It Was Easy (Lookin' For the Lights)" (#18 Hot 100), and the minor-charting "Last Safe Place on Earth" (#77 Hot 100).Other changes were in store as Campo and Pollard both quit later that year, with the former returning to school to complete his Master's degree in music and the latter renouncing rock music to enter the Baptist Christian ministry, where he remains today. Fergie Frederiksen and guitarist Jim Odom took over for Pollard on the fifth album, So Fired Up (which was released in February 1983). The album contained the minor-charting "Carrie's Gone" (#79 Hot 100), which Odom and Frederiksen had written after Frederiksen's breakup with actress Carrie Hamilton, Carol Burnett's daughter. The music video for the album's second single "Lifeline" also received MTV rotation, and was covered by Bobby and the Midnites and Uriah Heep. It wasn't enough to keep them from being dropped by RCA, however, and the band called it quits by 1984. Frederiksen then stepped in to replace (former Levee Band member) Bobby Kimball in the band Toto.

Album:

"Last Safe Place" completes the trio of Rock Candy Records excellent remasters from LE ROUX most celebrated '80s albums.After the glorious Pomp AOR of their previous album 'Up', for this new record Le Roux added a more commercial FM sound - according to times - to their music, with a slightly West Coast smooth AOR feel into the mix.It's the band's most successful record, with a single reaching the Billboard Top 20 chart and other two among the Hot 100."Last Safe Place", produced in-house by bassist Leon Medica, took the template and moved it one stage closer towards AOR nirvana. Recorded for their new label RCA, the album satisfied on a number of levels, and is packed out with sophisticated, memorable songs and killer hooks. Indeed, the track ‘Nobody Said It Was Easy’ became something of a hit, reaching #18 on the Billboard charts and establishing the band as supreme contenders for the AOR crown.But my favorite is the lively opener "Addicted", an energetic rocking AOR tuen with a radio friendly sound which video received a strong MTV rotation.We have superb arrangements in the awesome title track, and 'You Know How Those Boys Are' is another pumping '80s AOR little gem. More commercial and with a poppy feel there's the highly enjoyable 'It Doesn't Matter' and 'Long Distance Lover', both with neat musicianship and catchy hooks.There's fine ballads in 'Midnight Summer Dream', 'Make Believe', and my favorite and also the band's biggest hit 'Nobody Said It Was Easy', with its smooth West Coast vibe."Last Safe Place" is another superb album by Le Roux, often underrated compared with their other two '80s album due its more commercial approach. But in terms of quality, it's on par with both and it's the band's more varied record.A delicious slice of pure '80s bliss crystal clear remastered by Rock Candy.

Line Up:

Jeff Pollard - vocals, guitars
Tony Haselden - guitars
Rod Roddy - keyboards
Leon Medica - bass
David Peters - drums
Bobby Campo - percussion

Tracklist:

01. Addicted
02. It Doesn't Matter
03. Nobody Said It Was Easy
04. The Last Safe Place On Earth
05. Inspiration
06. You Know How Those Boys Are
07. Midnight Summer Dream
08. Rock 'n' Roll Woman
09. Long Distance Lover
10. Make Believe

+ Video "Nobody Said It Was Easy" (Official Video)
+ Video "Addicted" (Official Video)


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