Le Roux - So Fired Up (1983) (Rock Candy Remastered 2013)

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Le Roux - So Fired Up (1983) (Rock Candy Remastered 2013)

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Le Roux - So Fired Up (1983) (Rock Candy Remastered 2013)

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Year : 1983 (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:

LE ROUX was one of the most diverse rock bands in America. Starting as a blues unit they morphed into a more classic rock band, them Pomp AOR, and finally with the last album, Melodic Rock / AOR wonders. We're talking about "So Fired Up", one of the best recordings of all time in the genre crystal clear remastered by Rock Candy Records.Le Roux is still active with different incarnations, but their peek of activity and brilliance occurred between the late Seventies and the first half of the '80s.The icing on the cake was the band's 5th album "So Fired Up" with the addition of outstanding singer Dennis 'Fergie' Fredericksen (previously in superb pompsters Trillion and later in TOTO) and Jim Odom, a young guitarist who brought new ideas and sounds to the group.I won't spend too much time describing the songs in "So Fired Up" because all are incredible, magnificent. This is a first rate, Classic Melodic Rock / AOR with CAPITALS, among the best AOR albums of All Time. Period.Now this milestone in the genre has received the great 24-bit remastering from original source tapes by Rock Candy Records, and you have not excuses to not treasure this goldmine.

Line Up:

Fergie Frederiksen: vocals
Tony Haselden: guitar, backing vocals
Jim Odom: guitar
Rod Roddy: keyboards
Leon Medica: bass, backing vocals
David Peters: drums, percussion

Tracklist:

01, So Fired Up
02. Lifeline
03. Let Me In
04. Yours Tonight
05. Line On Love
06. Carrie's Gone
07. Wait One Minute
08. Turning Point
09. Don't Take It Away
10. Look Out

+ Video "Carrie's Gone" (Official Video)
+ Video "Lifeline" (Official Video)



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