Lost Highway
2003
We Were Born In A Flame (Bonus Tracks Edition)
About This Album
The first time Canadian rocker Sam Roberts released We Were Born in a Flame in the U.S. (in 2003 on Universal), it sank like a stone. His countrymen, meanwhile, were going wild buying tons of copies and honoring Roberts and the album with multiple Juno awards. In an interesting move, Universal decided to re-release the album in the States but put the record up for grabs among their subsidiary labels. Lost Highway was the winner, and the label reissued the album in 2004 with a different running order (some tracks were shuffled around, one, "Canadian Dream," was lopped off, and two bonus tracks were added at the end of the disc). If the album flops again on Lost Highway, someone else should try it again in 2005, because this is the kind of record that fans of intelligent, emotional, tough-with-a-heart-of-gold rock music should hold very close to their hearts. Roberts is a one-man dynamo, playing all the instruments save for drums, singing his guts out, writing lyrics that are never less than interesting and are often brilliant, dropping the kind of hooks that will have you screaming along in your car, and making just about every other mainstream rock band look like unfocused wannabes.
Track List (try tracks 1,2,3,6,9,12,14 and 15)

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