Great blues based rock with that added crunch! - This one,just like the debut & Voodoo Highway are three of the best all time blues based rock records out there! Buy this one,trust me it stayed in my player for at least a month straight after i found it back in 2000!
Not Overproduced Electric Blues Rock - This ablum shines for what it is... AND WHAT IT IS IS AMAZING! Rarely are we moved, in a live groove experience way, by recorded material and if you loved the first two productions from these blues rock gods, this will hit the spot. Ray will be missed. Jake is awesome. Are these practically first take demos? Yes. Is every transition perfect? No. Is this TOTALLY ECLIPSED by the pure tallent of the band, and the amazing things they re doing? YES! Does this album have more soul and feel than ANYTHING else I ve experienced lately? YES! Is the sound quality excellent? Yes. Enjoy...
DUSK ROCKS!! - I just picked up a copy of this release, and man am I glad I did! From the opening track Healer to Ride the Jack, this disc absolutely rocks! The band sounds great, and Ray Gillen s vocals are as impressive as ever. As others have said, this disc is basically a collection of studio run-throughs, most of which were recorded in one take. DON T LET THAT PREVENT YOU FROM BUYING THIS DISC! The band is tight, the songs are great, and the sound quality is excellent. My only complaint is that, as previously mentioned by other reviewers, the artwork in the Z-records version is blurry, so you can t read the lyrics. Other than that, this is the same disc as the more expensive import. Since you can easily find the lyrics on-line, I d recommend saving a few $$ and getting this disc instead of the pricey import.
Going out with a bang! - I know, opinions are like a*#holes but it still makes me wonder what the people that gave Dusk a lousy 1-star rating are smoking! How can you love Badlands and Voodoo Highway and NOT like this album even a little?! - Although these recordings were merely meant as demos, tracked live in-studio by the full band with no or minimal overdubs, the quality is never in question and the writing is consistantly strong. The vibe on Dusk is somewhat darker and more brooding that especially the debut but once again Jake, Ray, Jeff and Greg create the perfect marriage between muscular, melodic hard rock, raw-yet-soulful blues, and groovin 70 s white boy funk that takes you back to the likes of Trapeze, James Gang, Zep, and Bolin-era Purple. And Healer , Tribal Moon , Walking Attitude and The Fire Lasts Forever (how appropriate a song title!) deliver in spades! And if you thought 3-Day Funk was funkay wait until you put on Fat Cat - pure joy! Also of note - Dusk features the original version of The River , a beautiful, introspective ballad Greg Chaisson re-did on his It s About Time solo album (w/ the Riversogs Rob Lamothe on vocals, Rob coincidentally was also BADLANDS first choice to replace Ray when he quit the band in 92), and Sun Red Sun is a song Jake later re-moded E-Z-O-style for Wicked Alliance (where s the album, guys?) as Blood Provider . It s also great to see the band finally put the epic Lord Knows to tape after kicking it around for the debut album but ultimately deciding against it. Bottom line: There is A LOT to love here and I consider this album an unexpected gift from the rock gods as it gives us one last chance to hear the brilliant Ray Gillen do what he does best with the greatest 80 s band to never attain superstar status. What a curtain call!
Finally Got it! - Well, I finally got a copy of this album. I just discovered that it existed only a few months ago while searching Amazon and knew I had to have it because of how much I enjoyed Badlands and Voodoo Highway.Going into this not having heard a single song from the album was refreshing, yet the expectations were also high after loving nearly every song from the bands first two albums. The album started right with Healer and from there it was enjoyable, but not great. Nothing holds a candle to their debut album!I have had this CD in my car for the last week, just playing it over and over during my commute to and from work. 3 songs now stand out as my favorites...Healer, Lord Knows and Ride the Jack.I wouldn t spend big money to get an original copy of this. I ended up getting what appears to be a fairly professional copy? Not sure, but the liner notes are just blurry enough to be unreadable. I had to come here to get a track list, just to see the titles of the songs I liked the best. I do recommend owning it though if you liked the rest of the Badlands offerings.