Rick Cua - No MysteryNo Mystery is an elated trip down memory lane for those of us who grew up with this music. The output is definitively album oriented rock which dominated the FM airwaves in the '80s. While Cua had his own signature sound, I do hear inflections of the familial Night Ranger or 38 Special, for music referencing (which is a compliment, btw!). Unlike his debut that had mostly southern tinged rock with a smattering of rock pop ballad type material, No

We include plenty of deliberate references

in which a soldier awaits execution after trying to desert to his homeland while the piano imitates the muffled rolling of drums

is also his third wholly original program for the label (after Cities and Desire (CRC 1285) and Barefooted Town (CRC 1325)

Dallas Frazier with Joe "Fingers" Carr

2 in F Major

Griswold/ Griswold - Erik Griswold: Ecstatic Descent

the band quickly erupt into paroxysms of jagged black metal violence

In their write-up of the show

having himself been chased off stages and physically threatened for his radical storytelling

One of the most widely performed works in the violinist's oeuvre

universal expression of life

Using lavishly illustrated comic book panels to bookend the twisted tale