SUMMARY: RUNNING TIME: 4:39 Min.
‘Inspired’ by Young Guns II, this mid-tempo ballad is Track # 10 on Jon Bon Jovi’s 1990 Blaze of Glory album.
Note: If purchasing as a solo download, please beware it might not include the intro – it’s a tense dialogue clip of Kiefer Sutherland’s ‘Doc Scurlock.’ Otherwise, this clip comes at the end of Track # 9: “Bang a Drum.”
REVIEW:
Balanced by a spot-on melody, this ballad poignantly contemplates a tired gunslinger’s regrets, both past and present. Like “Miracle,” off this same album, its contemporary subject matter extends beyond Young Guns II. Still, “Miracle” is faintly optimistic, unlike the bleak self-loathing permeating “Dyin’ Ain’t Much of a Livin,’” Though this tune just as easily could fit aboard a present-day Bon Jovi album, it’s really more a second-tier option, in terms of download options.
BRIAN’S ODD MOON RATING: 6½ Stars