Rick Bowles / No Man's Land

Rick Bowles, born and raised in North Carolina released his acclaimed debut album "Free For The Evening" for Polydor Records USA in 1982 featuring a beautiful ballads tune "(Tonight I'll Be Your) Fool Again". And this album became well-known as one of Robert Byrne and Brandon Barnes related works among AOR / Westcoast freaks. It has been believed that "Free For The Evening" is the only one album Rick Bowles released because he lost his deal with Polydor before releasing his second album. Rick had not succeeded so much as a solo singer but does well as a songwriter. His materials are recorded by many big names in Pop Country field such as Alabama and/or Terry Clark through 1990's. To our surprise, Rick had released his second solo album "No Man's Land" in 1984 under Applause Records, US minor label, otherwise custom label for private releases. According to Rick's comment appeared on the liner notes of the reissued CD, "No Man's Land" was recorded in Muscle Shoals, Alabama in the summer of 1984. Robert Byrne produced the album and he also played guitar and keyboards, sang background vocals, and co-wrote six songs on the record. And the recording session was done originally for Polydor Records, by which the quality of the recording sessions were never the cheap alike self-released demo materials. Therefore, you can enjoy this album as one of the fine mid 80's AOR/ Westcoast works.

Release: 1984
Label: Applauz Records Inc., USA (NR15714)

First Reissued CD Release: 25 July, 2001 (Dreamsville Records. Japan, YDCD-058)

Tracks:
1. Shame On Me
2. No Man's Land
3. In The Meantime
4. Who's That Look In Your Eye
5. Baby Lied
6. I Have The Way I Love You
7. Night Blind
8. One Life Stand

Producer: Robert Byrne

Rick Bowles: Vocals

- Musicians -
Drums: Owen Hale, Milton Sledge
Bass: Gary Baker, Mike Chapman
Keyboards: Steve Nathan, Richard Putnam, Brandon Barnes, Clayton Ivey, Robert Byrne
Guitars: John Willis, Mac McAnally, Robert Byrne
Background Vocals: Hershey Reeves, Cindy Richardson, Robert Byrne

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