Blackjack - Worlds Apart
April 4 1980
Blackjack
Worlds Apart
Genre: Soulful Rock
3.25 out of 5
I feel compelled to just C/P the first line from the Wiki entry:
“Worlds Apart is the second and final album of the American rock band Blackjack. The album was met with nearly total indifference,[2] sold poorly[3] and Blackjack disbanded shortly after its release.”
Yep.
Except that, somehow, two tracks by this band have been sampled by Kanye and Jay Z over the years.
But, what is Blackjack and why does it sound so….familiar?
Why, the lead singer is…Michael Bolton. Michael Unctuous Bolton (His real middle name, I believe). And Bruce Kulick (brother of Bob Kulick) is a great guitarist who is, of course, wasted here.
This opens with a cover which is actually hard to discern cuz they do a pretty good job of making it their own. But then the album is as much anonymous 80s AOR as you would expect out of the pipes of Bolton.
https://music.apple.com/us/album/worlds-apart/1525071923
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