Category: Melodic Rock | AOR

Country: Italy
Genre: Westcoast | AOR
Year of publication: 2012-2020

2012 – Here I Am (EP) – 00.16.35
2017 – Newest Things ‎- 01.05.15
2020 – Walkin’ Away (Single) – 00.04.58

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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.

Just in case you did not know how to pronounce Rick’s last name, he made it incredibly easy on us by entitling his debut album with the phonetics of his family name. “Koo-ah“, released in 1982, featured a solid cast of musicians including members from The Outlaws and Wescoast AOR guru Robbie Dupree.
For his debut solo album, Cua left The Outlaws three guitar attack and 7 minute epics in favor to very poli

Genre: Pop, Soul, AOR
Country of performer (group): USA
Publication year: 1976

Tracklist:
01 Things To Do 03:40
02 All I’ve Been Looking For 3:12
03 I Don’t Wanna Go 4:05
04 Part Of Me 3:54
05 It’s Really Alright 5:02
06 The Next Time 4:11
07 No Thanks 2:56
08 Jimmy Mack 3:22
09 Nothing’s The Same 3:42
10 I’m Still Here 4:29

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Genre: Pop, AOR
Country of performer (group): USA
Year of publication: 1981-1982

Florence Warner / Just Believe It

01 You’re The Love That I Need
02 Distances
03 Only Love
04 Pirate
05 Fire In My Passion
06 Charity
07 Oh Darlin’
08 Here It Is
09 Out Of The Blue
10 Fade Right Through The Wall

01 You Can’t Win ’em All
02 All In One Night
03 Easy
04 Love On A Shoestring
05 Hold Me Once
06 I Miss Your Heartbeat
07 Drawing Pictures
08 Love Gone By
09 Take Good

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),