Detailed item info | Track listing | 1. I Am the Walrus
2. I Can See For Miles
3. Can't Find My Way Home
4. It Don't Make Sense (You Can't Make Peace)
5. I Don't Need No Doctor
6. One Way Out
7. Salty Dog
8. Summer in the City
9. Manic Depression
10. Talkin' About the Good Times
11. Locomotive Breath
12. Find the Cost of Freedom
13. Wishing Well
14. Blue Collar Man @ 2120
| | Details | | Producer: | Gary Loizzo, Styx | | Distributor: | Universal Distribution | | Recording type: | Studio | | Recording mode: | Stereo | | SPAR Code: | n/a |
| | Album notes | Styx: James Young , Tommy Shaw (vocals, guitar); Lawrence Gowan (keyboards); Ricky Phillips (bass guitar); Todd Sucherman (drums).
In blatant defiance of F. Scott Fitzgerald's famous maxim about there being no second acts in American lives, that most quintessentially American of bands, Styx, enters a new phase here after three-and-a-half decades of life. When their one-off cover of the Beatles' "I Am the Walrus" became a surprise hit, Styx followed up with an entire album of cover tunes, 2005's BIG BANG THEORY.
Here they lay bare their roots in both classic rock and Chicago blues (they are, after all, natives of the Windy City themselves). Tackling tunes by such 1960s rock icons as the Who ("I Can See for Miles"), Jimi Hendrix ("Manic Depression"), and, of course, the Fab Four (the aforementioned classic), they remain reverential. However, they take a few more liberties on the still-timely Willie Dixon composition "It Don't Make Sense (You Can't Make Peace)" and the Sonny Boy Williamson-via-Allman Brothers chestnut "One Way Out." They venture furthest afield, though, on a reinvention of their own "Blue Collar Man" recorded at the former site of legendary Chicago blues label Chess Records, and featuring guest shots from blues icons Koko Taylor and Johnnie Johnson.
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