JK Northrup & David Cagle - That's Gonna Leave A Mark

[Stefan]

 

From melodicrock.com:

MelodicRock Records is excited to announce the release of one of the finest melodic hard rock records for 2018 – JK Northrup & David Cagle’s first collaboration together, titled ‘That’s Gonna Leave A Mark’.

 

There is no doubt whatsoever that this record is gonna leave a mark on fans of hard rocking, guitar driven melodic rock, with a production to die for and songs dripping in hooks and melodies.

JK Northrup & David Cagle ‘That’s Gonna Leave A Mark’ arrives March 30 worldwide.

 

A very early demo form of this album was on select digital platforms under the Liberty & Justice banner, but ‘That’s Gonna Leave A Mark’ is a whole new ball-game from the ground up.

 

MRR’s Andrew McNeice: “I’m immensely proud and excited to finally be releasing this killer record from JK and David. I’ve worked with JK since the very first MR.com compilation over 15 years back and he’s been there for me as a mastering engineer every time since. His work with me remastering some important archive releases in the last couple of years has only further emboldened my respect for him as a first rate professional and someone who can bring out the very best results in any situation. On top of that, he is a Grade A gentleman who I value as a friend and college.

Everyone I have recommended Jeff to as an engineer or producer has ended up using him and continuing that relationship. But I’ve long felt that his name is undervalued as a writer and guitarist and I think this record is his finest achievement to date and a truly stunning release – in all facets – the guitar playing, the writing and production and David Cagle is one hell of a vocalist who I think we need to work with again ASAP!”

 

Jeff Northrup: “David Cagle and I had worked together in the past and started this album back in 2014.  Unfortunately, it was shelved due to 'circumstances'. We knew we had something special even then, and the time was right to pull out this great collection of songs, dust it off and polish it up. The result is 12 of the best songs put together on any album I've been a part of!

 

Fast forward to 2017… After rewriting some of the lyrics, some arrangement changes, re-recording guitars and vocals, then bringing in the powerful rhythm section of Larry Hart - bass (Montrose, Gypsy Soul, King Kobra) and Steve Brown - drums (Montrose, Oleander-and Mick Brown's younger brother), the album has truly come to life!

Larry and Steve have been playing live together for a couple years and are TIGHT. I've played on a few albums with Larry including King Kobra, Shortino-Northrup and Gypsy Soul, which began in 1987.

 

When you hear the opening track 'The Night Is Mine', you'll know right away that you are going to Get Rocked HARD!!! David's modern approach on vocals is a breath of fresh air and I pull no punches on guitar!! With some heavy, powerful rock songs, to more main stream rockers and a couple killer ballads, it's all here!!!

Although a predominately guitar driven album, Eric Ragno does a masterful job playing keyboards on 6 songs.

 

The title track, 'That's Gonna Leave A Mark' was written by myself several years back, but sounds as fresh and powerful as if written today. Some of the lyrics are based on true life experiences about love, hate and a relationship gone bad, which is reflected in the artwork that was done by the great Nello Dell'Omo. 'The Siren' cuts out your heart and leaves you still alive, clutching your chest. Been there, done that!!! I truly am excited for everyone to here this album!! Cheers!" ~ JK Northrup

 

JK Northrup's professional career began in 1982 when bassist-songwriter Bruce Turgon (Lou Gramm, Foreigner) heard his demo tape and asked if he would like to record with him in Los Angeles. That offer was accepted and the next thing that happened was they were in the studio at Pasha Records being produced by the legendary Billy Thorpe (Children Of The Sun). In the next room, Quiet Riot was mixing their debut album 'Metal Health'. Billy asked JK, Bruce and Frankie Banali to tour for his new release and that's how it all began!

 

Since then, JK has recorded with, toured with and produced some of the biggest names in music and that list continues to grow today. Not only known as an elite guitarist, songwriter and producer, but also as a recording engineer and mastering specialist. In 2017 alone, JK produced, mixed and/or mastered some of the top-rated rock albums for a who's who of recording artists.

Having written songs that have been recorded by artists such as Foreigner, King Kobra, Great White, XYZ and including television and movies, the list continues to grow.

 

JK has appeared on over 30 albums over the years as a songwriter, guitarist and producer, and has mixed and mastered many others.

 

Now in 2018 comes a new album called JK Northrup & David Cagle, 'That's Gonna Leave A Mark'. This album showcases all of JK Northrup's skills as a songwriter, guitarist, producer, recording and mastering engineer.

In JK's words, 'I'm just getting started! Enjoy the ride folks'.

For more detailed bio and discography, please visit www.jknorthrup.com

 

Award-winning international singer David Cagle has recorded vocals on more than 1000 songs over the past 10 years for clients all over the world, covering multiple genres of music. Although a singer of many styles, Cagle is most known for his melodic, soulful rock voice. A few of Cagle's credits include:

- February Fallen: Black and White (all lead and backing vocals)

- Marty and the Bad Punch: Moon Over Baskerville (all lead and backing vocals) *Winner of 4 awards at the 2015 German Rock and Pop Awards

- Brannon: Welton St. and The Road Less Traveled (all lead and backing vocals), and many individually released singles *Winner of multiple international songwriting competitions

- Majestic: V.O.Z, Epsilon 1, Epsilon 2 (lead and backing vocals on select tracks)

- Fiction Syxx: Tall Dark Secrets (backing vocals on Given Sight and Your Promised Land)

 

'That's Gonna Leave A Mark' guest performers:

 

Gunnar Nelson - backing vocal on ‘Forever Starts Tonight’

Richard Kendrick - backing vocal ‘Can't’

Kelly Keeling (MSG, Blue Murder) - backing vocal ‘For Sure Thing’

DanZoid (Ted Poley, Bridger) - drums ‘That's Gonna Leave A Mark’

 

Produced, Recorded, mixed and mastered by JK Northrup at Alien Productions Music Studio

www.alien1111.com

www.jknorthrup.com

 

JK Northrup & David Cagle ‘That’s Gonna Leave A Mark’ arrives March 30 worldwide onMelodicRock Records

 

 

[simo]

I only know JK Northrup from his album he did with Paul Shortino, can't listen right now but looking forward to hearing the song hope the new album will be good.

[Glen]

nice track

[simo]

Didn't like the first song too much

[Stefan]

45 minutes ago, simo said:

Didn't like the first song too much

 

Better?

 

 

[lettard]

Definitely better yeah,like the chorus,but I'm on the fence for this one atm ,as simo stated, it did nothing for me either.

[simo]

Second one is better I agree, only a bit disappointed by the solo

[Stefan]

 

[Stefan]

New lyric video.

 

 

[simo]

I know it's 2018 and these are different times but let me just post one of my favorites here

Love the dynamics in this song, how the guitar goes from the freight train like opening riff, to creating all this space and atmosphere during the verses and then takes a back seat when it cleans up during the calm part after the solo

Spread the word around!

 

[Geoff]

I like 'Gone' from this album... quite a nice almost modern sounding melodic rock song. 'The moment' is another pretty cool song, but this is just another to album add to the "average" pile in 2018. No other song stood out at all for me and it was forgotten within moments of listening.

[Captain Howdy]

Isn't this just basically Liberty N Justice without the drummer and bassist?

In fact, seven of the twelve songs already feature on the last Liberty N Justice album from 2014.

[Geoff]

19 hours ago, Captain Howdy said:

Isn't this just basically Liberty N Justice without the drummer and bassist?

In fact, seven of the twelve songs already feature on the last Liberty N Justice album from 2014.

lol. 

I think I noticed a couple of songs sounded familiar, but as I never had much interest in those L&J CDs, I certainly didn't pick where I may have heard them before.

[Captain Howdy]

Very lazy though to just reuse the songs and pass them off as a whole new album.

Is Bret Michaels their business manager? ha ha

[The Rocker]

I think this project in certain places reminds me of Maxx Explosion.

[melodicrock]

5 hours ago, Captain Howdy said:

Very lazy though to just reuse the songs and pass them off as a whole new album.

Is Bret Michaels their business manager? ha ha

Not lazy at all. The whole project is re-recorded from the ground up. Different lyrics, new riffs, lots of changes and one hell of a performance from David Cagle.

JK wasn't happy with the original product being rush-released and being that Justin owed me and JK, he offered us full control over the material, so JK spent several months making it what he originally envisioned. I think there's no comparison with the L&J digital only release.

[Geoff]

Production is definitely better than those L&J albums, that's for sure. 

[Captain Howdy]

20 hours ago, melodicrock said:

I think there's no comparison with the L&J digital only release.

It was released on CD, so how is it a digital only release?

[melodicrock]

On 5/25/2018 at 8:25 AM, Captain Howdy said:

It was released on CD, so how is it a digital only release?

Well, that's typical Justin for you....I was told it was digital only. Still....what JK did with this is amazing and in a completely different realm than The Vow.