When he wrote the song, Bon Jovi played the song for a group of people, including Shanks. He came up with the working title Four Dead in Ohio, which is derived from the lyrics of the song Ohio by Crosby, Stills, Nash Young.
He continued tweaking it and realized that he did not have a proper title and the chorus for the song. It concludes with the narrator reciting the names of cities caught in the crossfire, including Las Vegas, Sandy Hook Elementary, Orlando, Florida, and Columbine.īon Jovi started to write this song on the day the shooting happened and wrote the first draft of the song over a period of two days. Song has a lament that the news cycle will move on before there is even time to grieve. The last verse somewhere theres a church bellthats summoning the choirsomewhere theres a dreamer who would walk 1,000 miles is a throwback to the Young Guns II (1990) era. Let It Rain is a song that calls for a cleansing of the spirit. Song takes a journey through the circle of life, where suddenly the child becomes the parent and the parents are getting older. Story of Love is a song about Bon Jovis parenthood, family, children, wife and parents. I believe the greatest gift of an artist is the ability to use their voice to speak to issues that move us. The killing of George Floyd inspired him to write American Reckoning, and the pandemic gave him the opportunity to write Do What You Can.īon Jovi wrote this song day after his wife took photo of him washing the dishes in Jon Bon Jovis Soul Kitchen and published it on social media with caption If You Cant Do What You Do Do What You Can and published it on social media.Īmerican Reckoning was inspired by the killing of George Floyd and Black Lives Matter Movement.īon Jovi explained: I was moved to write American Reckoning as a witness to history. However, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the release of the album was postponed, and the tour was cancelled. Then Bon Jovi picked his favorite 10 songs and for those songs band recorded vocals, guitar, piano, keyboard and percussion overdubs as well backing vocals sang by all of the band members. Jon Bon Jovi recorded all the songs on his smartphone in poor audio quality and brought them to the rest of the band.ĭuring the period of 11 days in Nashville, band recorded bed tracks for 23 songs.
On the same day, Jon posted 30-second long Instagram story videos showing him, Tico Torres, David Bryan, John Shanks, Hugh McDonald and Phil X tuning up their instruments in the same studio. The tracklist order also changed, as the first version of the album was set to start with Beautiful Drug and finish with Blood in the Water.
The music video for Do What You Can was released on August 25, 2020.īefore the postponement, the songs Luv Can and Shine were initially part of the album, but they were replaced with Do What You Can and American Reckoning.
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