Cross road bon jovi album
8 on the Billboard 200 the week of November 5, 1994, selling 84,000 copies, and it remained on the charts for 57 weeks. The stadium singalong classics such as “Bad Medicine” and “Lay Your Hands On Me” compliment heartfelt and contemplative songs like “Bed Of Roses” and “I’ll Be There For You.” A lone track from 1985’s 7800° Fahrenheit, “In And Out Of Love,” is a reminder of Bon Jovi’s down’n’dirty Jersey Shore roots.Ĭross Road reached No. Plans to record an updated, full-band version of the Jon Bon Jovi solo hit “Runaway,” were, however, scrapped during the lead up to Cross Road’s release.Ĭross Road is enough to please any die-hard Bon Jovi fan, but it also represents a wide swathe of the band’s musical output in order to draw in new fans as well.
CROSS ROAD BON JOVI ALBUM PLUS
The 14-track collection was a testament to the impressive catalogue of hits Bon Jovi had amassed over the years, from the albums Slippery When Wet (1986), New Jersey and Keep The Faith (1998), plus Jon Bon Jovi’s debut solo album, 1990’s Blaze Of Glorysoundtrack.Ĭross Road also featured two newly written tracks, the power ballad“Always” and the countrified pop song “Someday I’ll Be Saturday Night,” plus a more laid-back, synth-led reimagining of “Livin’ On A Prayer,” titled “Prayer ’94” and replacing “In These Arms” on the US edition of the album.
(Taking the “crossroads” theme even further, the album cover shows the band at the Roadside Diner in Wall Township, New Jersey, near the crossroads of Route 33 and Route 34.)
Finding themselves at a metaphorical crossroads, the group reflected on the past decade, consolidating their position with their first greatest-hits album, Cross Road. MacDonald, who’d cut his teeth playing with another famous sideman, David Bromberg, had dabbled in the hard rock world, but was coming from the folk and roots-rock scene.īy the middle of the 90s, Bon Jovi had reached rarified heights of fame and fortune. Session bassist Hugh MacDonald, who played on Jon Bon Jovi’s 1982’s solo single, “Runaway,” was unofficially hired to fill in. It would be Bon Jovi’s first line-up change since their inception in 1983. Just a year later, the stress of extensive touring exacerbated previously existing tensions in the band, leading to founding bassist Alec John Such leaving the group. To celebrate this newfound freedom, and to promote the new album, the band went back to their roots, playing small club gigs in their native New Jersey before heading out on an extensive world tour that spanned 37 countries, 177 shows, and over 2.5 million fans. This change in musical direction was matched by a change in fashion: gone were the days of ripped acid-washed jeans, leather vests, and rock-star hair so teased out one would think the band owned shares in Aquanet (CNN actually reported on Jon Bon Jovi changing his signature hair metal mane as “breaking news”). That control was prevalent on 1992’s Keep The Faith, on which Bon Jovi retired the arena drums and face-melting guitar solos to work up a more mature sound. Guitarist Richie Sambora agreed: “We just have more control over our pacing of our lives and it just got out of hand when we weren’t in control, and now, we are.”