Shooting Star [Remaster] by Shooting Star (CD, Jan-2007, Renaissance Records)

Album Features
UPC:	630428033122
Artist:	Shooting Star
Format:	CD
Release Year:	2007
Record Label:	Renaissance Records
Genre:	Hard Rock, Rock & Pop

Track Listing
1. You've Got What I Need
2. Don't Stop Now
3. Higher
4. Just Friends
5. Bring It On
6. Tonight
7. Rainfall
8. Midnight Man
9. Stranger
10. Last Chance
11. Wild in the Street

Details
Playing Time:	49 min.
Producer:	Gus Dudgeon
Distributor:	Muvid
Recording Type:	Studio
Recording Mode:	Stereo
SPAR Code:	n/a

Album Notes
Shooting Star: Van McLain (guitar); Gary West (acoustic guitar); Bill Guffey (keyboards); Ron Verlin (bass guitar); Steve Thomas (drums); Chales Waltz (background vocals).Additional personnel: Stuart Epps (vocals); Gus Dudgeon (tambourine).Audio Remasterer: John W. Edwards .Right out of the gate on this self-titled inaugural, Shooting Star brings on the schmaltz but gets away with it because the tracks exhibit so much heart. Most of these well-aimed cuts concern surviving and prospering. Expert musicianship propels this Kansas City sextet through the general rock heartland on a holy crusade. No one else could have made "Just Friends" so poignant yet positive. "Tonight" is most excellent, the violin creating a pop Kansas (but way cooler). The porch-swinger "Rainfall" recalls prime Poco, and "Midnight Man" burns better than the James Gang number of the same name. At the end of the rainbow waits "Last Chance," flat-out one of the finest songs ever -- kettle drums, strings, and guitars build to a crescendo that will bring tears. This song ties with "When the Levee Breaks" as the greatest album-closer of all time (nullified by the CD reissue, which adds the worthy "Wild in the Streets"). Shooting Star doesn't get enough credit. ~ Doug Stone