I personally don't know what to think about this country record. Jon has said that they're country songs without the twang. How does that work? Are Who Says You Can't Go Home (the band version) or Someday I'll Be Saturday Night or These Days or Blaze Of Glory country songs without the twang or are they just rock songs? If you take the twang out of country doesn't it cease to be country and become a pop/rock song, which is exactly what Bon Jovi always do.

I like the fact that Jon and Richie could do some seriously good songwriting on this project but I hate the fact that they're calling it a country record (when it might not be) just to capitalise on the success of the duet with Jennifer Nettles. Jon has always proudly said that one of the reasons Bon Jovi have stuck around and stayed relevant is that they stayed true to who they are and didn't go grunge or rap or boyband when they were popular but he's completely betraying that now. I guess I'll reserve judgement until the album is out.