Artist:  Williams / Friestedt
   Title: Williams / Friestedt
   Label: AOR Heaven
 

In the world of AOR they don’t come much bigger than Joseph Williams, the one time singer of TOTO and Peter Friestedt, the songwriter and musician who has played with a wide range of AOR stars from Chicago to Steve Lukather.  The pair have worked together both live and in the studio numerous times, but never before combined both their talents on one dedicated album, that is until now.

With Williams you know that you have a voice made for AOR, just check out the Toto albums 'The Seventh One' and 'Fahrenheit'.  More recently his vocal prowess was brought to light as the voice of Simba on the Lion King's ‘Can You Feel The Love Tonight’, but it's the combination of this great vocal talent and the excellent song writing talent that is Friestedt, that has produced an album that will melt the hearts of AOR fans worldwide.  Add in the contributions from the likes of Tommy “will play for the love of it ‘Denander, Bill Chapman of Chicago, Randy Goodman and Bill Cantos, and this album has to be one of AOR's "albums of the year".

With great songs like the ‘Say Goodbye’ and 'Where To Touch You’, standing up against the melody rich ‘Stay With Me’ and the stunning ‘One More Night’.  This album is a AOR fans wet dream.  If you remember those Toto albums mentioned before then you will just melt away with the shear joyous musical mindscape that this album produces, and with Williams rejoining Toto for a tour this summer, this is a great way to reintroduce yourself to one of the great talents in the AOR scene and his new musical partner Friestedt, on an album that is sure to produce many more high quality releases over the years.

A real summertime feel good album for sure.

Tracklisting:

1. Swear Your Love
2. Say Goodbye
3. Sometimes You Win
4. Where To Touch You
5. Going Home
6. Stay With You
7. One More Night
8. Gotta Find It
9. Letter To God

                  

 

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