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Todd Royce
Step Into The Light
Genres: Blues, Jazz, Pop

Track Listings (11) - Disc #1
1. Slow Change
2. Indecision
3. Waves
4. Sometimes Rain
5. One Way Ticket
6. Piece of your Mind
7. Man Gone Missing
8. What I Need
9. I'll Follow You Down
10. Listen to you Heart
11. Step into the Light

CD Details

All Artists: Todd Royce
Title: Step Into The Light
Members Wishing: 0
Total Copies: 0
Label: Mortone
Original Release Date: 12/1/2001
Release Date: 12/1/2001
Genres: Blues, Jazz, Pop
Styles: Vocal Jazz, Vocal Pop
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPC: 656613515624

Synopsis

Album Description

This concept album contains eleven original rock, funk and blues songs with a pop music leaning. The theme throughout the CD is the journey through depression, anger, and pain. The guitar work is a muscular fusion of rock, bebop, blues and country, the vocals are smooth, the lyrics are cathartic, and the band's improvised interplay is raw, fierce, energetic and sophisticated. Imagine, if you will, the band "Cream" fed through a matrix of "Elvis Costello" songs with hints of Texas blues rock and echoes of "Hendrix", all influenced by the last 20 years of pop music. It's something like that.

CD Reviews

Royce Stepped Into The Light

D. Patric | MB, SC United States | 01/29/2002

(5 out of 5 stars)

"At last, something original to listen to! The music is surely a bluesy rock pop, but with some strange turns at some even stranger intersections. I found the music derivitive of many sources, but not overly of anyone. Ultimately it maintains its own identity and that is a good thing. Todd Royce is his own entity and his guitar (and the two excellent musicians aiding him) speak rich and textured volumes. The songs are musically sound and yet not pop enough to absorb them all with one listen. This is smart music that requires intelligent listening. Do yourself a favor and pretend that the lyrics did not come with the CD. It is ultimately more rewarding listening when , like the words of Michael Stipe, the lyrics are music in their own right to be discovered on their own terms. Unlike Stipe, you can actually understand what Royce is singing and saying. I'm not a huge fan of the "concept" album, but Royce can be forgiven because he stays true to himself and the personal truth of his message. It's a gut wrenching delivery seasoned with a hopeful spirit. A journey most of us know all to well. We all need to step into the light sooner or later. By the end of the CD, the songs do not end. As the last note fades, it requires us to inquire of ourselves as to what ours or Royce's next journey will be. Todd Royce has stepped into the spotlight with this CD. I hope he receives the attention and accolades due him so he may continue his musical odyssey. It will take me some time to digest this CD, but I already know I would like to hear more. You will too."