Jake E. Lee lead guitarist for Ozzy Osbourne

JAKE E LEE
RETRACED (2005)
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Jake E. Lee landed his first big break as lead guitarist for Ozzy Osbourne in the early to mid 80's. After the Ultimate Sin album he moved on to form Badlands. There he explored and created some of the best classic hard rock known to man! Unfortunately, the Badlands material is long out of print, and very hard to get. What about Retraced? Like the Badlands material, Jake creates a classic rock sound that will quench any thirst for good rock n roll that modern rock has taken away! Jake's playing is a return to form, and basically sounds like he's never taken any time off! The vocalist, Chris Logan, was flat out born to sing this type of music. He has a very smokey, gritty, blues rock, kind of voice. In other words, he's very easy to warm up to, if you like blues or southern rock. In addition, Mr. Dunbar and Tim Bogart round out the lineup, making for great chemistry among the four band members.
Retraced is an album full of not so well known classic rock tunes, with Jake's signature playing. There's not a weak moment on the entire album, making for a consistent effort! Hopefully, Retraced will lead to Jake putting out more material and more often! I'm convinced that Jake E. Lee has his own style and can embark on a very worthy solo career among the likes of Joe Satriani, Steve Vai, and Eric Johnson. Retraced comes highly recommended, and should become an essential classic for those of us that enjoy the traditional roots of rock n roll!

1. Whiskey Train
2. Evil
3. Way Back To The Bone
4. I'll Be Creepin'
5. Guess I'll Go Away
6. Love Is Worth The Blues
7. I Come Tumblin'
8. Woman
9. A Hard Way To Go
10. I Can't Stand It
11. Rock Candy

Antonino and Steve Vai wins Golden Stag award in Transylvania

Romanian Times

Italian artist Antonino won the Golden Stag award at the eponymous music festival yesterday (Sun) evening in Brasov, Transylvania.

American guitar player Steve Vai received an honorary award for his entire career at the Golden Stag music festival before performing on the stage in Brasov. The night ended with a Tiziano Ferro concert.

Antonino is famous for his single "Resta come sei" in his second album released last year.

Antonino declared, after winning the award, that he would donate the money prize – worth 10,000 Euros – to different people in both Romania and Italy.

Antonino said: "It is the first important prize in my career. I hope I’ll have new projects with Romanian artists, too."

A Romanian band, The Marker, was runner-up.