JBR Electrocutes Listeners 3rd Time Around With Megawatt

Strap into Megawatt or plug in Everyone Loves A Relic or Tunes For The Marooned. All three albums by Jack Brian Riedel (JBRmusic.com – Phoenix, AZ) include a host of supporting musicians, producers and engineers.

On Megawatt:
JBR Smoke Rings - Can’t argue with the Smuggler or Carolan. Just try. The samples are here. Track 1: Smuggler Track 6: Carolan
- Digital Dream couldn’t catch The Cars? Catch again.
- Break ‘Em Out. Third-person writing, incredible guitar solo and vocals, don’t want to say rivals Plant, but can’t say enough for the pro, Greg Vaughan, at Standing Wave Music studios (Standing-Wave-Music.com).
- Through Jupiter and Chain Reaction, something like mid-90’s hippie raves on XTC.
- I was never into Night Ranger, but The Thin Line is truly a sentimental hard rock ballad with a sweet acoustic solo and vocal reentry from the bridge like a sky diver in love without a parachute.
- Here We Go the smorgasbord. Feels like a slap in the face from the Stones at first, introspective and goofy after that, and then tripping into some comfortable Steve Miller or Jimmy Buffet ramble.
- Valentine falsetto a la Prince. Another nice turn around into a strum near the end.
- Taking It To The Top. Shit’s classic High Voltage.
- Sons Of Winter settles in to a snow storm, driving and steady, the listener trapped before realizing the album is already over.