Tone, technique, taste, texture. The Steve Morse Band's close-to-perfection album. Sublime guitar fireworks, arguably the best rhythm team in Van Romaine on drums and Dave la Rue on bass (this side of Dave La Rue and Virgil Donati!) this is a colossal album with no fillers. 'Eyes of a Child' and 'Four Minutes to Live' are perhaps SM's most emotional masterpieces put to publishing, and from the opening title track to the closing 'Live to Ride', this is a barnstormer of an album. Morse's trademark licks are there, but it's the pure melody and structure in which he has the uncanny ability to ensure enters his albums, that sets him apart from his contemporaries. This really is modern-day Beethoven and Schubert, in your ears; it has class written all over it.