This Is the Life (Ricky Ross album)

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This Is the Life
This Is the Life cover
Studio album by Ricky Ross
Released 2002
Genre Rock, Pop
Label Chrysalis Records (Papillon) (UK)
Evolver (US)
Producer Kenny MacDonald, Ricky Ross, Davie Scott
Professional reviews
Ricky Ross chronology
The Undeveloped Heart EP
(1997)		 This Is the Life
(2002)		 Pale Rider
(2005)

This Is the Life is a solo album from Scottish rock musician Ricky Ross and member of Deacon Blue.

Ricky Ross produced the album with Kenny MacDonald, who has produced for Deacon Blue in the past. Perhaps as a result, this solo album is less divergent from the typical Deacon Blue style than are Ricky's previous two solo albums, New Recording and What You Are. The sound is not a carbon copy of Deacon Blue, however. The album has more touches of folk and country music and the general mood of the album is more placid than most of the Deacon Blue catalog.

Deacon Blue colleague James Prime plays piano on "The Way to Work", and Ross' wife and Deacon Blue colleague Lorraine McIntosh contributes vocals to a single song (as she did on each of Ross' three prior solo albums), "Nothing Cures That".

This is the first Ricky Ross solo album to receive a US release, albeit on a minor label.

[edit] Track listing

All songs written by Ricky Ross, except where noted:

  1. "Northern Soul" (Ross, Dore) – 6:34
  2. "London Comes Alive" (Ross, Slaven) – 3:33
  3. "Rodeo Boy" (Ross, Davie Scott)– 4:32
  4. "Angel & Mercedes" (Ross, Slaven) – 5:05
  5. "I Sing About You" (Ross, Slaven) – 4:28
  6. "Nothing Cures That" – 4:26
  7. "This Is the Life" – 6:01
  8. "Threatening Rain" – 3:05
  9. "Starring Love" – 3:56
  10. "Hippy Girl" – 3:48
  11. "My Girl Going to Town" (Ross, Davie Scott) – 5:13
  12. "Looking for My Own Lone Ranger"(Dore, Ross) – 2:29
  13. "The Way to Work" – 4:54

[edit] Bonus Download Track

  1. "Driving George" – 3:58

[edit] Personnel