The Law is the first and only album from the Paul Rodgers led group The Law.
History The Law was formed when Paul Rodgers met Kenney Jones in a nightclub in London and decided to put a band together. The two teamed up with different supporting musicians in order to give Rodgers freedom to pursue whatever music style he felt like. Unlike his previous projects, in which he wrote or co-wrote most of the material, Rodgers relied heavily on outside writers to write songs for the album (such as Phil Collen, Chris Rea and Bryan Adams); the only chart topper of the album, "Laying Down the Law", was written by Rodgers himself. The album features notable appearances by David Gilmour, Bryan Adams and Chris Rea. The song "Stone" was previously recorded by Rea for his album Shamrock Diaries, and Rea (as well as Gilmour) plays guitar on this version. The track "Miss You in a Heartbeat", written by Phil Collen, was later recorded by Collen's band Def Leppard for their Retro Active album.
Aside from the single, the album was received very poorly by the critics. Paul Henderson in Q Magazine called it "lightweight". Rodgers soon moved on from the band to his solo work.
Track listing
Personnel
The Law Paul Rodgers - lead vocals, guitars, piano Kenney Jones - drums Jim Barber - lead guitar
Additional Musicians John Staehely: Guitar Pino Palladino: Bass David Gilmour: Guitar on "Stone" Chris Rea: Guitar on "Stone" Bryan Adams, Mike Hehir: Guitars Jon Astley, Steve Pigott: Keyboards, Programming Albhy Galuten: Synthesizer George Hawkins: Bass Tom Pool: Drums Joe Lala: Percussion The Memphis Horns: Horns
Production Produced By Chris Kimsey, Ahmet Ertegün, Howard Albert, Ron Albert, Kenney Jones, Shane Keister & Paul Rodgers Engineers: Christopher Marc Potter, Alex Sadkin Programming: John Jones Mixing: Ahmet Ertegün, Shane Keister, Christopher Marc Potter Mastering: Bob Ludwig Re-Mastering: Jimmy Starr
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