Once again I wanna share some thoughts with you.

Taking a left turn. Doing the unexpected. Giving resistance, to yourself and your fans.
Isn't this things we want? A band that tries out new things.

There have been mixed feelings about Bon Jovi going to Nashville, the capitol of countrymusic. With so many fans with som many diffrent backgrounds, it would only be natural that some like it, and some doesn't.

The history has teached us that to take a leftturn, has proved to create fantastic new music. Some experiment fail, some succeed.

In many ways Bon Jovi has taken leftturns before with success. Keep The Faith was something new. These Days was very dark to be a Jovi record. Crush gave us short popsongs without guitarsolos! Bounce was a new sounding Jovi, but This Left Feels Right, yeah that was special. I'll give them credit for trying something completly new. Not many band, if any, has done the same thing before.
Like it or not, it was brave!
Have A Nice Day, that was good, but it wasn't surprising us.
So where does this leave us?
Lost Highway. We've heard some songs. I like the idea of them going to Nashville. Both they and we need something new from the Jovi camp!

Left turns from other bands has often gives us great albums. When Springsteen, The Boss, takes a leftturn, he goes acoustic and stripped, like on Nebraska or Devils & Dust. Radiohead almost took a commercial suicide with Kid A, but as time went by people loved it. Bob Dylan makes his own fans cry cause he is destroying his own songs at conserts.
All this is necessary to still be creative and not to grow old in the same shoes.

So, what I'm saying is, well I'm not sure...
I'm just very excited about the idea of my favourite band will have influence from country, cause I love countrymusic. Although I'm not to big fan of the usuall radiocoutry, like Who Says You Can't Go Home. I hope they won't make it to popsounding.

Let's welcome this new inspiration for the band and hope for a great album.
Like someone said "They haven't realised a ballad as first single since These Days..." That can give a superstitious man high hopes!!!

So, that's it. Many words, maybe not so meaningful, but still words...

Cheers!