Jersey's Gone Country

It is not that odd for rockers to record a country album. Artists from Neil Young to Bret Michaels (lead singer of the rock band Poison) have experimented with country music. So it shouldn't be that strange for the band Bon Jovi to put out a country record. The only problem is Lost Highway isn't country. I wouldn't even call it country-rock. Filled with heavily distorted guitars and pop drum loops, the album feels contrived and leaves you with the question, Why? It looks like their just riding on the coat tails of the Grammy they won from the song "Who Says You Can't Go Home", which was a duet with Sugarland's Jennifer Nettles. Lost Highway is supposed to be about the troubles and trials that the band went through this past year, but creatively it is too subtle. There's no need to water down a country song, the situation speaks for it self. So if you want a real country album stay away from this record. Even Keith Urban, whose albums border on pop, sounds more country than Bon Jovi.