The Way It Is (Glenn Hughes album)

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The Way It Is
The Way It Is cover
Studio album by Glenn Hughes
Released March, 1999
Genre Hard rock, Funk
Length 60:45
Label SPV (Europe)
Nippon Crown (Japan)
Shrapnel Records (US)
Producer Glenn Hughes
Michael Scott
Professional reviews
Glenn Hughes chronology
Addiction
(1996)		 The Way It Is
(1999)		 Return of Crystal Karma
(2000)
Alternate Cover
US Cover
US Cover

The Way It Is is a studio album by former Deep Purple, Black Sabbath and Trapeze vocalist/ bassist Glenn Hughes. It was released in 1999 on Nippon Crown, SPV and Shrapnel Records records and was Hughes’ sixth solo studio album.

Contents

[edit] History

While Hughes’ previous album, 1996’s Addiction had a serious, quite dramatic and heavy sound with songs that focused on the turmoil in his life, it’s follow up, The Way It Is has a distinctly lighter tone. The metal edge of Addiction was replaced with funk infused one. However, unlike 1995’s Feel, which had definite funk, pop and soul sounds, The Way It Is keeps the hard rock Hughes is best known for.

This was Hughes’ second album to feature long-time guitarist Jocke ‘JJ’ Marsh, the two of them worked closely on the album, locking themselves away in Hughes’ Los Angeles home in November of 1998. The album also features two songs co-written with funk guitarist Stevie Salas and performed by Hughes, Salas and former Guns N' Roses, now Velvet Revolver drummer Matt Sorum. The three of them had originally planned to put an album together, but this did not appear. You Kill Me and Second Son are the only tracks by the three of them to be released [1].

Other musicians on the album include guitarist/ keyboardist Marc Bonilla, who worked closely with Hughes on Addiction, but has a lesser role on this album. Keith Emerson provides organ parts on two songs and Hughes’ usual drummer of the period Gary Ferguson performs on all the non-Salas/Sorum numbers.

A cover of Jimi Hendrix’s Freedom (originally from The Cry of Love) is featured on the album and additional remix of the song appears at the end of the record, although it is not listed on the album sleeve-notes.

[edit] Track listing

  1. "The Way It Is" – 5:44 (Axelsson, Hughes, Marsh)
  2. "You Kill Me" – 3:31 (Hughes, Salas)
  3. "Neverafter" – 5:13 (Hughes, Marsh)
  4. "Rain On Me" – 5:26 (Hughes, Marsh)
  5. "Curse" – 4:49 (Axelsson, Hughes, Marsh)
  6. "Freedom" – 4:18 (Hendrix)
  7. "The Truth Will Set Me Free" – 3:38 (Hughes, Marsh)
  8. "Stoned In The Temple" – 4:08 (Bonilla, Hughes)
  9. "Too Far Gone" – 4:54 (Hughes, Marsh)
  10. "Second Son" – 3:39 (Hughes, Salas)
  11. "Take You Down" – 4:35 (Hughes, Marsh)
  12. "Don't Look Away" – 5:37 (Axelsson, Hughes, Marsh)
  13. "Freedom (Shagmeister Mix)" – 5:10 (Hendrix)

[edit] Credits

[edit] Performers

[edit] Studio Tracks

[edit] References

The Way It Is entry at glennhughes.com