Reviewed by Tony Cummings

Jerome used to sing with a well known US band (which one escapes me for the moment!) and this, his second solo album shows that the potential of his first was no flash-in-the-pan. Here's a guy with a nice husky rock voice, whose self-composed songs are often hauntingly introspective rather than in-your-face raunchy. Years back they would have called this style 'California soft rock' but whatever the current pigeon hole its liquid lilt rests easily on the ear with jangling guitars and country-tinged harmonies bringing the strong melodic hooks. My favourites are the ode to the "Family Man" opener and the compelling song cameo about an encounter with a vagrant on the street, "The Wounded". It'll take ten plays to get through to you but if you're adventurous (and flush) enough to search this ignored album' out you'll be rewarded.

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