Love on the Side Has a desert/cowboy theme with the band performing with their guitars.
Due to the visible steam of their breath, the video gives the impression that the band is in the cold outdoors. This is highlighted and detailed in the sleeve notes of their only album which was released in 2007, several years after the band stopped performing.īroken English were one of the opening acts on the ITV programme The Roxy, which was set up as opposition to BBC Television's Top of the Pops.Ĭomin on Strong features a full-length music video of the band in their Ghostbusters look, playing the song in a run down work yard. The first single did reasonably well however, the two follow-up singles did not fare so well. The group started after Elson wrote a song called "Comin' On Strong", which a friend of his Oliver Smallman, heard the song and thought it was too good to be a one-off novelty song and encouraged Elson to put together a band and record more material. Adkins' distinctive yet traditional baritone brings out the best in this material, whether leaning on the metaphor of the ballad "I'd Sure Hate to Break Down Here" or reflecting on the physical pleasure of "One of Those Nights." Comin' on Strong is at its best right at the beginning, and there isn't another song as impressive as "Hot Mama." But it's a sturdy collection of reasonably good country songs given effective interpretations by a veteran talent.Broken English were a British rock band formed in 1987 by Steve Elson (singer and guitarist), who at the time performed in a Rolling Stones tribute band. The nine songs in between are the usual Nashville product, songs about love lost and found. "Hot Mama" has a frisky appeal and, with its erotically charged tag line, "You wanna?" a novelty quality, as does the album's closer, "Rough & Ready," a tongue twister with a Western Swing flavor that details a particular type of country male's taste: "Cold beer/Hot wings/Wranglers/Skoal ring," and so on. That starts with the leadoff track and first single, the up-tempo "Hot Mama," in which a husband reassures his wife that she remains attractive to him, even though she can no longer fit into the jeans she wore at 17. So, it is perhaps appropriate that the overall tone of the lyrics in the 11 songs written for him is one of romantic maturity. By the time his fifth disc, Comin' on Strong, appeared in 2003, he was over 40. Trace Adkins had reached his midthirties by the time his debut album, Dreamin' Out Loud, was released in 1996.
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