Category: Melodic Rock | AOR

Girder Records has just reissued all the first RICK CUA albums for the first time remastered. An Italian-American sporting a cool leather jacket, Cua (Koo-ah) was the bass player for The Outlaws then he went solo becoming a force to be reckoned with in the world of contemporary Christian AOR music.

“No Mystery“, Cua’s second solo album, was released in 1983 with a classic cover art very representative of the era, a polished sound production and musically a mix of Rick Springfield, Preview, Franke & The Knockouts, etc.
Here’s appear the first Bob Halligan Jr. songwriting contributions for Rick Cua, and the session players are top notch including Ian Bairnson of Alan Parson Project fame o

Girder Records has just reissued all the first RICK CUA albums for the first time remastered. An Italian-American sporting a cool leather jacket, Cua (Koo-ah) was the bass player for The Outlaws then he went solo becoming a force to be reckoned with in the world of contemporary Christian music.

Rick Cua’s first 4 albums were and still are among the top classic AOR albums to come out of the widely successful Christian Rock scene.
“You’re My Road” is Cua’s third album, and being originally released in 1985 you know the AOR sound from the era, catchy, commercial, radio-ready but still rocking.
Including songs penned with his writing partner talented Bob Halligan Jr (Kix, Icon, KISS),

Girder Records has just reissued / remastered all the first RICK CUA albums, for the first time on CD. An Italian-American sporting a cool leather jacket, Cua (Koo-ah) was the bass player for The Outlaws then he went solo becoming a force to be reckoned with in the world of contemporary Christian music.

Rick Cua’s first 4 albums were and still are among the top classic AOR albums to come out of the widely successful Christian Rock scene.
“Wear Your Colors“, originally from 1986, is one of his best, sporting that year’s glossy production. One look at the album cover, Rick holding up his black bass guitar in his frayed leather jacket, and you know this is a rocking album. And it shows up i

Style: Melodic Rock / AOR
Years: 1980
Country: Canada

Tracklist
Pull Me
Telephone Love Affair
Long Distance From Singapore
You’re No Good Girl
Stop
In Between
Love On The Late Show
Rock Room
Butterfly Love

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Country: Japan
Released: 1998
Style: AOR, Pop Rock, Soft Rock

1 My Obsession
2 James Dean
3 The Motown Song
4 Switchblade
5 Long Drag Off A Cigarette
6 Chinatown
7 The Beat Generation
8 In My Indiscretion
9 Tar On The Roof

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Few days ago we featured here all reissued albums from Canadians WRABIT, and here’s a related band; HANOVER FIST, formed by bassist Chris Brockway after Wrabit disbanded, and including talented musicians like guitarist George Bernhardt who later performed for Jeff Scott Soto, Lee Aaron & Rick Springfield, and drummer Kim Hunt (AORsters Urgent, Moxy, Zon) .

Originally released in Canada in 1985, the band’s self titled debut ”Hanover Fist” was re-released at the end of the same year in the USA with the band