They cheered and did their best to carry him through the show by singing along.Ĭronin’s misfortune provided a break for the opening act, Levon. The crowd responded in the way that devoted fans do. The Illinois-born, California resident sounded folksy, almost country, when he joked that he “shorely” would appreciate everyone’s help. He promised to do his best with the music and encouraged everyone to sing along. They are super stars – rock stars – but sometimes, on nights like that night, he reminded us how very human we all are. In Columbia, SC, on February 29, Cronin was less rock star and more older, but wiser, man.Ĭronin said that rock stars often don’t feel human. They got to learn more about the very real side of Kevin Cronin. No, the audience got something a little different. The audience didn’t get what they came for – the chance to hear Cronin singing 50 years‘ worth of hits. He felt bad, and the crowd felt bad for him. Recently at Columbia’s Township Auditorium, REO Speedwagon lead singer Kevin Cronin was both.Ĭronin owned it almost immediately. Sometimes you are a 68-year-old man with the flu. So I’ve learned a lot from that song.Sometimes you’re a rock star. We’re taught to shut up and deal with it if you’ve got a problem, and I was that way for a long. I realized I had spent the greater part of my life fighting my feelings. … At the time, I just thought it was a love song, but it’s so much more than that to me.
Roll with the changes professional#
“I had no idea at the time how much that song would come to define me, not only as a professional songwriter and as a member of REO. As “Can’t Fight the Feeling” turns 35, Cronin has a different perspective on the song than he did back in 1984. And I’m thinking about maybe even doing some solo acoustic versions of some of the REO hits to kind of show what the songs sounded like when I first wrote them.”Ĥ.
I’ve never made a solo album, but I’ve been in the studio working on solo albums a number of times over the years and have never gotten around to releasing them. “I’ve got demos of most of the REO Speedwagon songs and songs that were never released by REO Speedwagon. Cronin is also thinking about including some music, and possibly some new recordings, as a “companion piece” with the book. Next.’ I’d rather not release it than have someone else do it and put my name on it. If some publishing company says, ‘We’re gonna put the book out but we need to have somebody go in and rewrite it,’ I’ll just say, ‘Nope. It was so him … and I really want to be mine like that. That was my first rock biography that I read, and I thought it was great ’cause as I was reading the book, I literally heard Keith Richards’ accent. I read the Keith Richards book (“Life”) years ago. “It’s important to me that it’s my voice.
Cronin adds that he plans to do the book entirely himself, without a co-writer or ghost writer. Once I pass Springsteen, ’cause I know what a perfectionist he is, I think I’ll call it a day, but I’m getting close.”Ģ. I’m on my seventh rewrite now, which may seem like a lot except that I was told Bruce Springsteen did nine rewrites for his book.
Roll with the changes free#
“I didn’t plan on writing a book - it just kind of happened by accident, and then once I started, I kinda got into it and really started enjoying the process and have been at it ever since, basically any free moment that I have. Cronin, 67, says by phone that he’s been working on his autobiography since the end of 2016.
Here are five things you should know about REO Speedwagon before you go.ġ.
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