Year : 2019 (Japan Edition)
Style : Melodic Hard Rock , AOR
Country : United States
Audio : 320 kbps + all scans + Video
Size : 141 mb
Bio:
Even before his birth, Toby Hitchcock was already hearing the music. Born in Kokomo, Indiana on September 19, 1977, the first child of Greg and Marcia Hitchcock was exposed to all types of music, especially southern gospel, through the talented voice and keyboards of his dad, plus his crooning paternal grandfather, Howard, who at 71 is still sounding very much like Sinatra.Toby's mom, keeper of the family scrapbooks, has a picture of him still in diapers, already holding a mic and singing. Through the years Toby learned to hear harmony, singing with his parents, and eventually his sister, Tori, an awesome vocalist in her own right.From church musicals to "stealing the stage", and some girls' hearts, at school variety shows Toby's parents were always sitting in the crowd, smiling, knowing what road he was destined to follow. Working with his dad, an excellent musician who plays from his heart, he began to feel the music in a new way at the age of 12, putting it into the steady beat of the drums and becoming an excellent musician himself. In high school, he was in the top chorus, the Varsity Singers. At 17 he advanced to nationals in Fine Arts and was also a finalist in local and state competitions.Though he struggled through the difficult teen years that many young men experience he came to find himself exactly where he started, in the middle of the music. Becoming a D.J., he first just played the music for others, engaging the guests with his easy charm and wit, loved by young and old alike. In 1999, he joined the team at H.Y.P.E. Productions, an entertainment company who has hit Chicago by storm in the last couple years, supplying interactive dancers, live bands and vocalists for various events. In addition to being the lead singer & musical director of the bands, Toby has held just about every job at the company, including roadie, dancer, deejay, emcee, p.r. and engineer of their digital recording studio.Toby came to Jim Peterik’s attention when Jim’s talented niece, Kelly Moulik, brought him to Jim’s studio to sing a duet on a new song that Jim and Kelly had just written called “No Long Goodbyes”. The two of them met at a Dick Clark audition just a few days earlier. “The first moment I heard Toby on mic I knew I had come across someone really special.” When Jim’s band, The Ides of March played the Popcorn festival in Toby’s home town of Valparaiso, Indiana about a year later,Toby went up to say hello to Jim and the guys after the show.. This could not have come at a better time. Little did Toby know that Jim was in the beginning stages of planning his own album and was looking for a voice that could perform the powerful new songs that Jim loves to write. They exchanged numbers and rock and roll took it’s course.With the unconditional love and support of his parents, sister, grandparents, great friends and his best bud through the years, Josh Hrapek, and the influence of the church and a musical family, Toby Hitchcock has come of age (or "to this point in his life"), where his childhood, love and family, the tough lessons of life, and the beauty of music has molded him into one of the most promising male vocalists of this decade.
Album:
Survivor's Jim Peterik alumni in Pride Of Lions, vocalist TOBY HITCHCOCK, will release his new solo album "Reckoning" next January 25th, 2019 via Frontier Music, tomorrow this Japan Edition with a bonus.In this new album Toby is surrounded by Frontier's stable personnel guitarist Michael Palace, and skilled drummer, keyboardist and producer Daniel Flores, plus Yngve "Vinnie" Strömberg on additional drums.Fortunately, "Reckoning" doesn't sound like a cookie-cutter production, and there's some truly superb songs on it.I’ve always been attracted to guitar driven rock music more than anything, but I have also been fond of a strong vocalist. To be honest, even if a band has some brilliant guitar stuff going on, if I don’t like the voice it essentially kills it for me.Granted, I’ve always thought I had a keen ear for good singers. Among my top favorites are folks like Jeff Scott Soto, Tony Harnell, Gioeli, Ann Wilson, etc.When the music is vocally driven, you’ve got to have a pretty powerful voice to carry it. The last decade Jim Peterik stumbled across a young man while putting together his Pride Of Lions band by the name of Toby Hitchcock, and he has certainly made a major impact on the melodic rock world, without a doubt.While Pride Of Lions is taking some down time so that Peterik can focus on a new World Stage record, Hitchcock decided to follow up his really good 2011 solo debut with new solo material entitled "Reckoning".Plain and simple, Hitchcock could sing the phone book and make it sound great, but do you really want to hear a great voice doing something as inane? Of course not.His first solo album was stunning, and while "Reckoning" is overall very good, musically it is a bit more subdued and not as strong sonically. Toby’s voice is still powerful as hell, and it isn’t from lack of his talent.Let me explain me better; the album's problem it's on the initial tracks 'No Surrender' and 'Promise Me'. While both are solid songs in its own right, the mix - at least to my ears - is confusing, distracting you from the main melody. Add to that a copious instrumentation, and you end a bit disoriented.But then comes track 3 'Show Me How To Live', and wow... what an amazing ballad. Toby finds room to shine - relaxed AOR instrumentation - and he delivers a lesson in phrasing. Now we're talking...From here the album gets a true melodic hard rock feel, it's like they wanted to open the album with punchy, heavier tracks, but what works for Toby is the feel of track 4 'Behind The Lies', which puts him in a Pride Of Lions ADN.A killer tune, with keyboard flourishes, and call me nuts, at places Toby reminds me of the great Jimi Jamison.'Fighting For My Life' goes AOR with clean and sweet guitars, synths swirls and an anthemic chorus, there's a great Scandinavian pulse on 'Serenity', same with the emotional midtempo 'Queen Untouchable' (love the keys here).Semi-ballad 'Gift Of Flight' is another highlight with some excellent harmonies, 'Don’t Leave' is pure timeless melodic rock, there's a fine guitar work on 'This Is Our World', we have more Pride Of Lions anthemic gold on 'Someone Like You', and for the end a stripped, piano only version of 'Show Me How To Live (Acoustic)', where Toby re-recorded the vocals with a more subtle approach."Reckoning" is another really good solo album by Toby Hitchcock, which in my opinion fails in its 'design' to aim to start with 2 'heavy songs' - for sure to appeal a wider audience - but since track 3 is a fabulous collection of melodic hard rock / AOR songs.Toby's voice is stupendous here, even having been improved since the last stuff I heard from him, more mature and in control.A melodic hard rock / AOR 'singer's album', and a darn fine one.
Line-Up:
Toby Hitchcock - Vocals (Pride Of Lions)
Daniel Flores - All Keyboards and Drums
Michael Palace - Guitars and Bass
Yngve "Vinnie" Strömberg - Drums and Percussion
Tracklist:
01. No Surrender
02. Promise Me
03. Show Me How To Live
04. Behind The Lies
05. Fighting For My Life
06. Serenity
07. Queen Untouchable
08. Gift Of Flight
09. Don’t Leave
10. This Is Our World
11. Someone Like You
12. Show Me How To Live (Acoustic Version) (Japan Bonus Track)
+ Video "Promise Me" (Official Video)
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