Fortune – Level Ground 2022

In 2022 year Melodic rock/AOR cult heroes Fortune are back with their third album “Level Ground” via Frontiers Music Srl. Following 2019’s well-received comeback album II, ending a 34-year hiatus from album releases, and 2020’s live release The Gun’s Still Smokin’, the energy and creativity grew ramped up the band to create another melodic rock jewel to crown their crown.

After decades of silence, their first real Fortune reunion came in 2016 when the band performed at the Rockingham Music Festival that same year and then – thanks to the acclaim that followed that performance – also in 2017. Those performances eventually led to talks with the Label Frontiers on a new studio album that became 2019’s critically acclaimed “II”. That same year, the band traveled to Milan, Italy to perform at Frontiers Rock Festival, whose 2020 performance was released as “The Gun’s Still Smokin’”. With much enthusiasm and creativity in Fortune camp, the boys got down to work on their next studio album, “Level Ground”. The latest entry in Fortune’s discography continues the band’s fine tradition of delivering quality melodic rock/AOR.

The seeds of Fortune were planted by brothers Richard and Mick Fortune, who come from a family of professional musicians. Her mother was a singer and her father was a singer and bass player. Richard began playing guitar at 16 and later toured with Buddy Miles, Booker T & The MGs and Spirit, while Mick initially played accordion, keyboards and trombone before switching to drums. The brothers recorded an album, ‘Fortune’, for Warner Brothers in 1978, but in 1982 the group was revamped and re-formed from the ground up, with the hiring of Roger Scott Craig being one of the key acquisitions. The Irish-born keyboardist, who since his classical piano training at the age of 8, was known for his successful work with the Scottish pop group Liverpool Express in the 1970s.With Larry ‘LA’ Greene, also known from the Top Gun soundtrack, as a singer and the Detroit Studio and Elton John bassist Bob Birch, released Fortune in 1985 their self-titled debut album, which was particularly well received in Japan and Europe.

Camel/MCA Records (the same label that launched Night Ranger and Giuffria to fame) released the debut album, which is still highly regarded by fans of the genre today. In fact, many fans consider it one of the best, if not THE best AOR album of all time. That’s a subject to debate, of course, but the fact of the matter is that Fortune’s album is one of those lost gems of a bygone era that has worn down like fine wine over the years

01 Silence Of The Heart
02 Judgement Day
03 Dangerous Things
04 I Will Hold You Up
05 Riot In The Heartland
06 Orphaned In The Storm
07 I Should Have Known You’d Be Trouble
08 Hand In Hand
09 Level Ground
10 Lunacy Of Love