For those of you not in the know, Joe Bouchard is best known as a former member of Blue Öyster Cult. The original lineup sold millions of albums for Columbia Records, with such classic songs as “(Don’t Fear) the Reaper” and the #1 hit on the Billboard Mainstream Rock chart “Burning for You.” He contributed to songwriting and lead vocals on some of their greatest songs, such as “Hot Rails to Hell.”

Bouchard releases his brand new album American Rocker, and drops a new lyric video for the haunting track Deadly Kisses. Joe had this to say about the song, “Deadly Kisses is a song of young love and how it traps you. I sat down in a music room at a private boarding school and played a few odd chords. The opening lines and melody just came out.”

1. “My Way is the Highway”
2. “In the Golden Age”
3. “Deadly Kisses”
4. “Love Out of Thin Air”
5. “Off Season Hotel”
6. “Hounds of Hell”
7. “Conspiracy”
8. “Rocket to Fame”
9. “The Devil’s in the Details”
10. “Katherine”
11. “Hey There Suzi Dear”

This quite wondrously uplifting, vibrantly rocking new album opens on the rockin’ foot tapper “My Way is the Highway” and the melodic troubadour flashback of “In the Golden Age” and follow those up with the mehtodically-paced “Deadly Kisses,” the tension-filled “Love Out of Thin Air” and then comes the entwined Eastern-tinged rhythms within “Off Season Hotel.”

Up next on this album that sees Joe taking a look back at the heyday of the 70’s with BÖC, the atmospherically-charged “Hounds of Hell” and then the free flowing, joyously-crafted rocker “Conspiracy” and they are in turn backed by the rambunctious “Rocket to Fame,” the AOR of “The Devil’s in the Details,” the album rounding out on the ’60s-imbibed duo of “Katherine” and the fervent rock/pop of “Hey There Suzi Dear.”

American Rocker sees the return of Mickey Curry (Bryan Adams, Hall and Oates, Alice Cooper) on drums, and sees Bouchard taking a look back at the heyday of the ‘70’s with BÖC on tracks like “In the Golden Age,” and “Rocket to Fame.”

As Joe states, “American Rocker is a musical journey of my life as a rock star. I feel lucky to live a life of music, and to be fulfilling my wildest dreams.”

Deko Entertainment president, Bruce Pucciarello, continues, “If there was ever an album aptly named, Joe Bouchard shares this collection of amazing rock and roll flashbacks. Joe exemplifies the true American rocker.”

Joe Bouchard will be joining his brother, Albert Bouchard, for select shows in North America and their first ever Bouchard Brothers UK Tour this summer.

UK Tour Dates 2022:
August 9: Glasgow (Hard Rock Café)
August 10: Edinburgh (Bannermans)
August 11: Blackpool (Waterloo)
August 12: London (Underworld) w/Angel
August 14: Nuneaton (Queen’s Hall)
August 15: Hull (Wrecking Ball)
August 17: Newcastle (Trillians) w/Angel
August 18: Stoke-on-Trent (Eleven)

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