_{I remember my first musical encounter with Jean Beauvoir being a promotional boxed VHS tape that contained the video for the track “Feel The Heat” that was taken from the Sylvester Stallone movie “Cobra” in 1986. The video had been sent to my uncle who worked as a radio and club DJ and had been passed onto me as it was more my kind of thing!! I think I may only have dumped it recently after almost 30 years, principally as there was nowhere to play it! Anyway, all these years later I’ve now been sent another musical offering from Mr Beauvoir, although the format and technology has changed quite a bit!}

_{Jean Beauvoir and long term musical collaborator Micki Free released an album called “American Trash” through Frontiers Records on 5th June. This really is an album you should check out if you haven’t already.}

_{Jean Beauvoir had been a member of The Plasmatics (where I probably would have recognized him as the guy with the blonde Mohawk but not known his name!) and Little Stevens and the Disciples of Soul, before going solo and also getting heavily involved in other areas of the music business.}

_{Micki Free achieved significant success with Shalimar in the 1980s and later joined Jean Beauvoir to form Crown of Thorns, a band that released several albums between 1993 and 2008.}

_{Now reunited as Beauvoir Free, the duo has released an excellent album with 11 great tracks that really does deliver what you’d expect from two such talented artists. I’ve already played “Shotgun to the Heart” on the NI Rocks A-Z Show. If I were pushed to pick favourite tracks I’d probably go with the first five or six on the album – “Angels Cry”, “Morning After”, “American Trash”, “Whiplash”, “Just Breathe” and “Shotgun to the Heart”. That’s not to say that the last 5 aren’t great tracks, just that they might not be just as good as the previous ones – “It’s Never Too Late” wouldn’t be far off the mark though!}

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