The funny thing is LH is the least creative thing Bon Jovi has ever done. Furthermore, there is nothing risky about that album. They knew that part of their fanbase would roll their eyes at the thought of a BJ "Country Album" but they also knew they had laid the ground work with Who Says. If HAND was a so called country album, that'd at least been a little risky. But no, they put the country version of 1 song as a bonus track. But when that was their only hit, they figured it is time for a BJ country album. So they wrote a few songs while listening to Keith Urban records... Make a Memory being the only interesting song on the album. IMO there are only two really bad songs on the album and rest are good-descent... but only 1 interesting song? (...If I Was Your Mother... Love it or hate it, but at least it was interesting) Not once did they change keys or tempo or even song structure... they are all Intro/verse/chorus/verse/chorus/bridge/chorus/outro... some have a solo and some do not. For the most part, a good album (far from great or even BJ standards, but good) but adding a fiddle and steel guitar is not risky... especially when country music is selling in America better than any other genre.

This Left... it was creative and kind of risky... it just wasn't good. Okay some of it was. I'd choose to hear the Wanted and IML versions over the originals any day of the week... but that's just me. But yes, creative and risky.