Pierced Arrow

Product Description Rock icons Stephen Stills, Kenny Wayne Shepherd and Barry Goldberg are happy to announce their second album "Pierced Arrow." Produced by the trio along with bassist Kevin McCormick and drummer Chris Layton, the all new album follows in the very successful style and texture set with their chart topping debut album "Can't Get Enough" but with even more original material from Stills, Shepherd and Goldberg and the sound of a band that has really spent some productive time together. Review Supertrio the Rides Stephen Stills, Kenny Wayne Shepherd and Barry Goldberg return May 6 with Pierced Arrow, their first release since their debut album Can t Get Enough tapped into Blues Rock Review s Top 20 Albums of 2013. Like Can t Get Enough, Pierced Arrow is a mixture of originals (like the Stills-penned single Virtual World ) and covers (like the jaunty My Babe, written by Willie Dixon), all played with the technical skill one expects of three seasoned musicians. The biggest takeaway from Pierced Arrow is its unity: while some songs show evidence of each artist s past projects (especially Virtual World, which is reminiscent of Stills work with Buffalo Springfield five decades ago), the album as a whole nods to the time the Rides spent touring, performing and writing together as a team. The Review: 8/10 --Blues Rock Review Credit to where credit is due: Stephen Stills, Kenny Wayne Shepherd and Barry Goldberg refused to allow their cross-generational super-grouping of 2013 to remain a one-shot collaboration. But it s a fact that, no matter the skill of the musicians involved in any alliance, there s got to be some fundamental chemistry to be nurtured if the lineup is to become a genuine band and while the Rides would seem to have that, they re not nurturing it with the overly democratic assignment of responsibility documented on their second album. Certainly the three principals here are kindred spirits in the blues, at least as depicted in Get A Kick Out of It and Riva Diva, two modified shuffles that benefit not just from a staunch rhythm section of bassist Kevin McCormick and drummer Chris Layton (once of Stevie ray Vaughan s Double Trouble), but the expert production recording and mastering of Pierced Arrow. There s a paucity of poetry here, so if it seems overkill to include all the lyrics to these ten songs, that attention to detail in pac