Rick Springfield / Jeff Silverman – From The Vault

Releasedate: 26-02-2010; Label: Frontiers Records
By: Nina Mende

Rick Springfield (born Richard Lewis Springthorpe on 23 August 1949 in Sydney, Australia) is an Australian-American songwriter, musician and actor. As a musician, he is most famous for the 1981 #1 single “Jessie’s Girl”, which became a Grammy Award-winning landmark of 1980s pop-rock and helped establish the emerging music video age. As an actor, Springfield’s best known role is that of the character Dr. Noah Drake on the daytime drama General Hospital. He originated the character from 1981-1983 and then returned to play him again from 2005 until 2008.

“From the Vault (A Collection of works by Rick Springfield & Jeff Silverman)” is a collection of newly mastered and some previously un-released demos from Grammy-Award-Winner Rick Springfield and veteran producer, engineer, songwriter, and lead-guitar player from his first touring band, Jeff Silverman. Springfield and Silverman started recording together in the late 1970’s. “I would go to [Jeff’s] studio when I wanted to record some really great sounding demos,” says Springfield. “We also wrote quite a few songs together, which was something I hadn’t done with another musician before.” Silverman states “Rick and I discovered that we had a great deal in common… our professional relationship began to evolve into more than just playing live. It grew to recording his demo’s together, writing together and eventually making records together.”

This is a lot of background information and here comes what the album sounds like:
Listening to it you feel sent back to the 80s and 90s. The songs remind of several old hits we had back then. All pieces are very catchy. Some songs somehow made me think of old TV series from back then such as 21 Jump Street, Miami Vice or even Ghostbusters. “From the Vault (A Collection of works by Rick Springfield & Jeff Silverman)” includes 13 tracks, originally recorded between 1986 and 1999. Many of the tracks, such as “Dancin’ on the Edge of the World”, “Right Planet, Wrong World”, “You Write the Book”, “Dream in Colour” and “Religion of the Heart” are previously unreleased versions of the songs. “From The Vault” is a beautiful album, timeless even though it is connected to your memories from decades ago.

Tracklist: 01. Dancing on the Edge of the World 02. You Write The Book 03. Monkey 04. Love Receiver 05. Hey Eileen 06. Dream in Color 07. Woman II 08. Religion of the Heart 09. Why Don’t You Dance 10. Somewhere 11. My Depression 12. In Veronica’s Head

Links:
Rick Springfield Official