BombShellShocked

Infobox Album
Name = BombShellShocked
Type = studio
Artist = Eric Stuart Band

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Released = Start date|2002
Recorded =
Genre = Alternative country, Roots rock
Length =
Label = Rev Up Records
Producer = Eric Stuart
Reviews = 20th Century Guitar (July 2003) [http://www.ericstuart.com/tcgreviewbombshellshocked.html link]
Last album = Blue, Dressed In Black
(2000)
This album = BombShellShocked
(2002)
Next album = In The County Of Kings
(2007)

BombShellShocked is the fourth album (third full-length album) from the Eric Stuart Band (ESB) in which Eric Stuart is the songwriter and lead singer. Stuart is also highly acclaimed as a voice actor and voice director (see article on Eric Stuart). This album was released in 2002 under the Rev Up Records label (unlike other ESB albums, which are under Stuart's own independent label, Widow's Peak Records). One of the distinctive songs on this album is “Blood Red Rose,” in which Stuart plays acoustic guitar and sings in the absence of the band, much the same way as he opened as a solo act for Chicago (1995, 1997, 1998), Jethro Tull (1997), and Hall and Oates (1997, 1998), and toured as a solo act with Ringo Starr (1997), Lynyrd Skynyrd (1997), and Peter Frampton (1999). Another distinctive song is “A Boy In Love With You,” in which guitars and drums are absent, and Stuart sings instead with the accompaniment of piano, violins, viola, and cello. The artwork on the insert is the most fascinating and enigmatic of any ESB album, depicting items such as Stuart’s own trademark star-shaped belt buckle, his Batman ring, and other cryptic items. The dedication on the album reads,

“Dedicated to the victims and families of the tragic events of 9/11. Your memory will always live in our hearts. We will never forget.”

Track List

#"Sad Day For Love" (3:22) ©2001
#"Revelation" (4:03) ©2000
#"The Remedy" (4:47) ©1995
#"Paint The Town Tonight" (3:09) ©2000
#"A Bad Seed To Sow" (4:50) ©2001
#"Blood Red Rose" (3:08) ©2001
#"Sooner Or Later" (3:38) ©2000
#"Damned" (4:10) ©2000
#"A Boy In Love With You" (3:10) ©1998
#"The Second Time Around" (6:49) ©2001

Album Personnel

*Eric Stuart - lead vocals, acoustic guitar, rhythm guitar, keyboards
*Phil Nix - lead guitar, rhythm guitar, vocals, slide guitar
*Questar Welsh - vocals, lead guitar
*Kevin Merritt - keyboards, accordion, vocals, horn arrangements, piano, choral arrangements, string arrangements
*Jenna Malizia - vocals
*Mason Swearingen - bass, vocals
*Jagoda - drums, percussion, vocals
*Dan Schlessinger - saxophone
*David Smith - trumpet
*Elizabeth Dotson-Westphalen - trombone
*Julie Reyburn - vocals
*Darren Dunstan - vocals
*David Gurland - vocals
*Karen Mack - vocals
*Louis Cortelezzi - saxophone
*Asmira Woodward-Page - violin
*Joseph Brent - violin
*Lisa Simonelli - viola
*Vivian Penham - cello
*All songs written by Eric Stuart ©2002 Little Black Book (BMI)
*Produced by Eric Stuart
*Engineered and mixed by Questar Welsh

External links

* [http://www.ericstuart.com Ericstuart.com]
* [http://www.myspace.com/{1|ericstuart} {2|Eric Stuart}] at MySpace
* [http://www.netvibes.com/peckypudgeon Pecky Pudgeon Reports on the Eric Stuart Band]