''Barry Goudreau'' is the only studio album by American guitarist and former

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member

Barry Goudreau Barry Goudreau (born November 29, 1951) is an American musician. He was one of two original guitarists for the Rock music, rock band Boston (band), Boston alongside founder Tom Scholz; both Scholz and Goudreau shared lead and rhythm guitar parts ...

. The album features Goudreau's bandmates with Boston

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on lead vocals,

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on drums and

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(who would later join Boston in 1991), the album displays a sound very similar to that of Boston's first two releases, ''

'' (1976) and '' Don't Look Back'' (1978). However, neither this album nor any of Goudreau's subsequent releases with other acts ( Orion the Hunter and RTZ) proved to be as commercially successful as his work with Boston. The album was released in 1980 and is Goudreau's only solo album. The song "Dreams" was released as a

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in 1980, nearly cracking the US'' Billboard'' Hot 100 (#103, October 1980). It still receives airplay on

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radio stations, as does "Mean Woman Blues". '' Cash Box'' said of "Dreams" that it is "as melodic and

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-filled as anything by Boston." '' Record World'' called it a "powerhouse rocker" and said that "Frenetic guitar leads burn over the bulldozer rhythm."

Track listing

Side One (A) # "Hard Luck" (

) - 3:37 # "Nothin' to Lose" (

) – 4:01 # "What's a Fella to Do?" (Goudreau, Delp) – 4:29 # "Mean Woman Blues" (Goudreau, Delp) – 3:53 Side Two (B) # "Leavin' Tonight" (Cosmo) – 3:25 # "Dreams" (Goudreau) – 3:32 # "Life Is What We Make It" (Goudreau, Delp) – 3:11 # "Sailin' Away" (Goudreau) – 1:48 # "Cold Cold World" (Cosmo) – 4:55

Personnel

- lead guitar, vocals, bass, keyboards *

- lead vocals on tracks "Hard Luck", "What's a Fella to Do?", "Mean Woman Blues", "Dreams, "Life Is What We Make It" and "Sailin' Away" *

- lead vocals on tracks "Nothin' to Lose", "Leavin' Tonight" and "Cold Cold World" *

- drums, percussion * Jesse Erlich -

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* Joy Lyle - violin * David Schwartz - viola * Sid Sharp - violin, concertmaster

Production

* Produced By John Boylan & Barry Goudreau * Engineered By Paul Grupp * Assistant Engineers: Ed Cherney, Phil Jamtaas, Russ Martin * Mastering: Steve Hoffman * CD Preparation: Kevin Gray

Charts

Albums - Billboard (United States) Singles - Billboard (United States)

References

{{Authority control 1980 debut albums Albums produced by John Boylan (record producer) Pop albums by American artists