Year : 1980 (Rock Candy Remastered 2011)
Style : Melodic Rock , Melodic Hard Rock
Country : United States
Audio : 320 kbps + all scans
Size : 110 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:
Formed in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, LE ROUX had previously cut two albums in a bluesy rural rock style before switching allegiance to their firebrand version of melodic pomp rock / pomp AOR. Produced by feted session musician Jai Winding (Boz Scaggs), the band radical change in direction was showcased in this, their third album "Up", remastered in all its glory by Rock Candy Records."Up" sees Le Roux moving into a full Pomp AOR camp with a terrific rocking edge, great keyboard flurry and the lead vocals from founder Jeff Pollard akin Bobby Kimball in Toto around the same time.Stuffed to the brim with astonishing tracks including the Pomp thrill of ‘Let Me Be Your Fantasy’, the ultra-melodic ‘Get It Right The First Time’, the glow of ‘Mystery’ and the truly impressive ‘Roll Away The Stone’, the album oozes both class and control, delivering maximum melody at every available opportunity.The sound is big, bold and crystal clear propelling the contents to the stars and beyond.Le Roux's "Up" exploded out of the starting gate to huge approval by those that took notice. Although sales may have been somewhat limited, their influence was persuasive and powerful, especially in Europe where "Up" was hailed as a masterpiece by a number of connoisseurs of the genre.This 24-bit remastering from original source tapes by Rock Candy is truly excellent, recapturing the bottom end.
Line Up:
Jeff Pollard - lead vocals, guitars
Rod Roddy - keyboards, vocals
Tony Haselden - guitar
David Peters - drums
Leon Medica - bass
Bobby Campo - percussion, vocals
Tracklist:
01 - Let Me Be Your Fantasy
02 - Get It Right The First Time
03 - Mystery
04 - Roll Away The Stone
05 - It Could Be The Fever
06 - I Know Trouble When I See It
07 - Waiting For Your Love
08 - Crying Inside
09 - I Won't Be Staying
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