Lost Highway (Bon Jovi album)

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Lost Highway
Studio album by
Bon Jovi
ReleasedJune 8, 2007 (2007-06-08)
RecordedSeptember 2006–February 2007
Genre
Length49:57
Label
Producer
Bon Jovi chronology
Have a Nice Day
(2005) 		Lost Highway
(2007) 		The Circle
(2009)
Singles from Lost Highway
  1. "(You Want to) Make a Memory"
    Released: May 25, 2007
  2. "Lost Highway"
    Released: September 9, 2007
  3. "Till We Ain't Strangers Anymore"
    Released: November 30, 2007
  4. "Summertime (Canada only)"
    Released: 2007
  5. "Whole Lot of Leavin'"
    Released: May 9, 2008

Lost Highway is the tenth studio album by American

Nashville and NGR Recording, Hollywood
.

The album combines the band's rock sound with elements of country music following the success of a country version of the band's 2006 single "Who Says You Can't Go Home", a duet with Jennifer Nettles, which reached No. 1 on the U.S. country chart in May 2006.[1] Following the success had with the duet version of "Who Says You Can't Go Home", there are two songs on the album produced in collaboration with other artists, namely "We Got It Going On" featuring Big & Rich and the single "Till We Ain't Strangers Anymore" featuring LeAnn Rimes.

Described by

2008 Grammy Awards
. This was the band's first studio album in the country music genre.

Background

In the summer of 2006,

Nashville, Tennessee, to record the next Bon Jovi album. Their intention was to write songs and record duets with famous country songwriters and artists. Jon explained: "I'm thinking of a Nashville sessions record. I'd like to knock out a quick record with a few country writers and artists and me and Richie. I'd like to get two or three artists to do duets with. I'd like to give a couple of Nashville songwriters a chance to shine, and Richie and I would write a few songs to prove we could hold our own with these guys."[4] Band members went to Nashville in September 2006. and by December they had written, recorded and prepared for mixing ten out of twelve songs. In early 2007, Jon Bon Jovi pulled back the album and wrote five more songs and two of them made the album.[5]

Bon Jovi had a lot of success with '

Island
and told him about the idea and through the conversation he realized the downside of making that kind of album, but he still wanted to do it because he wanted to express his artistic freedom. When the band came to Nashville, they didn't know what kind of album it would be, but they knew what they would write about.

A lot of things happened in the band members' personal lives after the Have a Nice Day Tour. "If someone had said, You're going to write a record in September, having come off the road in August," noted Bon Jovi in 2007, "I would have said no, because I wasn't going to repeat the mistake of Slippery into New Jersey. But then I started observing things happening in our world. Richie went through a divorce [from Heather Locklear] and his dad passed away [from cancer]. Meanwhile Dave got a divorce and was fighting for custody of his kids. Watching the sadness, compounded by these newfound freedoms for Richie and Dave as individuals, make me think about what we should write about."[6]

The band met with songwriters from Nashville who had written hits, but there was no chemistry in the studio. Instead, they worked with less known and successful artists and found chemistry among themselves. Those songwriters are

Henson Recording Studios and NRG Recording Studios in Hollywood. Band members stayed at Hermitage Hotel
where Bon Jovi and Sambora wrote songs for the album.

The band worked with producers

Jeff Rothschild. Remaining songs "(You Want to) Make a Memory
", "We Got It Going On", "Seat Next to You", "Till We Ain't Strangers Anymore" and "I Love This Town" were recorded in Blackbird Studios in Nashville and NRG Recording Studios in Hollywood and they were engineered by Justin Niebank and Mark Hagen. After album was recorded, Jon wasn't satisfied with the mix of the album because it didn't have dynamics and range so he decided it needed to be re-mixed.

The title track "

Lost Highway Records
formed by Luke Lewis. Jon explained: "That name and what it brought up in your mind, that dark road stretching out in front of you, intrigued me. I wanted to go down that road and see where it led. I think it was a perfect image for where I am in my life and where Richie was and maybe for where you are? That idea, of being out there somewhere new, out in the open, on that blacktop, really excited me. No one knows where it's going or if it even exists - I don't know and I don't think anyone else does either".

"We Got It Going On" is song that was written after Jon Bon Jovi met Big Kenny and John Rich in a bar. They started a conversation and after five minutes they had come up with a title, lyrics and music. It is influenced by the Beastie Boys. "Till We Ain't Strangers Anymore" is a song that was originally cut in a lower key to suit a male vocalist. Since the band couldn't find any male singer who was satisfactory, they decided to re-record the song entirely in a different key and try female singers. After multiple failed attempts with different singers, they tried recording with LeAnn Rimes. Jon explained: "We wanted a woman, not a girl, on the song. And we knew she could bring that. There was no ego involved; she came in and did her job and did an amazing job". "One Step Closer" is a song that is about getting one step closer to something, hopefully something good.[7]

Promotion

Jon served as a

CMT. On June 22, MTV broadcast a half-hour version of the concert, VH1 broadcast a one-hour version of the concert on June 23, while CMT broadcast an hour and a half long version of the concert on June 24, 2007.[14] On June 12, 2007, VH1 put on a preview of the entire album on their official website.[15] On June 24, 2007, Bon Jovi opened The O2 Arena in London and played concert which coincided with the release of this album.[8] Tickets for this concert went on sale on April 20, 2007, at 9 a.m. and were sold out in one minute, and was the only Bon Jovi concert in United Kingdom in 2007. It was the first time in 15 years that Bon Jovi played indoors in the United Kingdom.[16][17]

Tour

Main article: Lost Highway Tour

In the summer of 2007, Bon Jovi performed ten concerts around the world as part of the Lost Highway promotion, with plans for a full greatest hits world tour in 2008. However, after Lost Highway did better than expected, the world tour was moved forward to the fall of 2007, and was renamed the Lost Highway Tour. The tour consisted of ten dates in New Jersey, followed by Canadian and Japanese tours, as well as the band's first stadium concert in New Zealand since the These days tour. The tour also saw them play Australia for the first time since their brief appearance at the Rumba Festivals in 2002, playing sold-out shows in

Perth
. The band then toured the U.S. and Europe in spring and summer 2008, before returning to North America for a few more summer shows, including a free concert in Central Park in New York City.

Critical and commercial reception

Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic(64/100)[18]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[19]
BBC(positive)[20]
Blender[21]
Entertainment WeeklyB−[22]
The New York Times(positive)[23]
NOW[24]
Rolling Stone[25]
Yahoo! Music UK[26]

At Metacritic, which assigns a normalised rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album has received an average score of 64 out of 100, which indicates generally favorable reviews, based on 12 reviews.[18] Stephen Thomas Erlewine from AllMusic gave the album 3 stars out of 5 stating that "Lost Highway recalls nothing so much as a latter-day Bon Jovi record in how it balances fist-pumping arena anthems with heavy doses of sentiment".[19] Helen Groom from BBC gave positive statement about the album saying that "Lost Highway hasn't lost any of the huge sing-along choruses that has made Bon Jovi one of the largest stadium rocking bands in the world, but to their credit, they are trying something a bit different at the same time as giving their fans what they want".[20] Karen Shoemer from Blender gave the album 3 stars out of 5 saying that "Luckily, Bon Jovi's country-music move yields just... one irritant".[21] Whitney Pastorek from Entertainment Weekly rated album with B− stating that "Bon Jovi have mostly just succeeded in making a slightly above-average Bon Jovi disc — albeit one with a lot more songs about driving".[22] Nate Chinen from The New York Times gave a positive statement about the album saying that "[It] yield[s] unsurprising but reasonably strong results".[23] Evan Davies from NOW gave the album NNN out of NNN saying that "Overall, as safe as Highway might be, there's no way long-time fans won't buy it".[24] Rob Sheffield from Rolling Stone gave the album 3 stars out of 5 stating that "Lost Highway moves in on Nashville as shrewdly as "It's My Life" skimmed Stockholm seven years ago".[25] Luke Turner from Yahoo! Music UK gave the album 7 stars out 10 saying that "Love it or hate it, "Lost Highway" will be joining supersize 7-11 sodas and loud bumper stickers as the accessory of choice for drivers across America this summer".[26]

After its first week on sale, Lost Highway entered the Dutch, German, Swiss, and Japanese album charts at No. 1, and the

RIAA
in October 2008.

Track listing

No.TitleWriter(s)ProducerLength
1."
John Rich
Dann Huff4:13
6."Any Other Day"Jon Bon Jovi, Richie Sambora, Gordie SampsonDann Huff4:01
7."Seat Next to You"Jon Bon Jovi, Richie Sambora, Hillary LindseyDann Huff4:21
8."Everybody's Broken"Jon Bon Jovi, Billy FalconJohn Shanks4:11
9."Till We Ain't Strangers Anymore" (featuring LeAnn Rimes)Jon Bon Jovi, Richie Sambora, Brett JamesDann Huff4:43
10."The Last Night"Jon Bon Jovi, Richie Sambora, John ShanksJohn Shanks3:32
11."One Step Closer"Jon Bon Jovi, Richie Sambora, John ShanksJohn Shanks3:35
12."I Love This Town"Jon Bon Jovi, Richie Sambora, Billy FalconDann Huff4:36
Total length:49:57
2010 special edition bonus tracks
No.TitleLength
13."Lost Highway" (live)4:07
14."We Got It Going On" (live)4:23
15."Any Other Day"5:52
16."I Love This Town" (live)4:55
Australian, New Zealand, and UK bonus track
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
13."Lonely"Jon Bon Jovi, Desmond Child, Darrell Brown3:55
Japan bonus tracks
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
13."Lonely"Jon Bon Jovi, Desmond Child, Darrell Brown3:55
14."Put the Boy Back in Cowboy"Jon Bon Jovi3:59
US iTunes bonus tracks
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
13."(You Want to) Make a Memory" (Pop edited version)Jon Bon Jovi, Richie Sambora, Desmond Child4:07
14."(You Want to) Make a Memory" (Live at the Cannery Ballroom)Jon Bon Jovi, Richie Sambora, Desmond Child4:16
U.S. iTunes bonus tracks (pre-order)
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
13."(You Want to) Make a Memory" (Live at the Cannery Ballroom)Jon Bon Jovi, Richie Sambora, Desmond Child4:16
14."Lost Highway" (Live at the Cannery Ballroom)Jon Bon Jovi, Richie Sambora, John Shanks4:13
U.S. Target bonus tracks
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
13."Walk Like a Man"Jon Bon Jovi4:29
14."I Love This Town" (Live from the Cannery Ballroom)Jon Bon Jovi, Richie Sambora, Billy Falcon4:47
Walmart Soundcheck bonus DVD
No.TitleLength
1."
(You Want To) Make a Memory"
 
5."Wanted Dead or Alive" 
European Tour Edition: Lost Highway: The Concert bonus CD
No.TitleLength
1."Lost Highway"4:34
2."Summertime"3:24
3."(You Want To) Make a Memory"4:48
4."Whole Lot of Leavin'"4:31
5."We Got It Going On"4:25
6."Any Other Day"7:59
7."Seat Next to You"4:34
8."Everybody's Broken"4:20
9."Till We Ain't Strangers Anymore"5:18
10."The Last Night"3:37
11."One Step Closer"3:41
12."I Love This Town"5:05
13."It's My Life"4:06
14."Wanted Dead or Alive"5:26
Australia, New Zealand and Japan Tour Edition: Stripped: Raw and Real bonus CD
No.TitleLength
1."Hallelujah" (live) 
2."(You Want To) Make a Memory" 
3."Lost Highway" 
4."Wanted Dead or Alive" 
5."Who Says You Can't Go Home" 
6."Whole Lot of Leavin'" 

Personnel

As listed in the liner notes.[28]

Bon Jovi

Additional personnel

Charts

Certifications

Region Certification Certified units/sales
Australia (ARIA)[65] Gold 35,000^
Austria (IFPI Austria)[66] 2× Platinum 40,000*
Canada (Music Canada)[67] 3× Platinum 300,000^
Denmark (IFPI Danmark)[68] Gold 15,000^
Germany (BVMI)[69] Platinum 200,000^
Hungary (MAHASZ)[70] Gold 3,000^
Ireland (IRMA)[71] Gold 7,500^
Japan (RIAJ)[72] Gold 100,000^
New Zealand (RMNZ)[73] Gold 7,500^
Russia (
NFPF)[74]
 Gold 10,000*
Spain (PROMUSICAE)[75] Gold 40,000^
Switzerland (IFPI Switzerland)[76] Platinum 30,000^
United Kingdom (BPI)[77] Gold 100,000^
United States (RIAA)[78] Platinum 1,000,000^

* Sales figures based on certification alone.
^ Shipments figures based on certification alone.

Release history

Region Date
Germany June 8, 2007 (2007-06-08)
United Kingdom June 11, 2007 (2007-06-11)
Japan June 14, 2007 (2007-06-14)
World June 18, 2007 (2007-06-18)
United States June 19, 2007 (2007-06-19)

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External links

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