

Inspired by its success, the band thought of making a country-influenced Bon Jovi album in Nashville. The song also won a Grammy award and People's Choice Award. Billboard Hot Country Songs chart making Bon Jovi the first rock band to top that chart. In early 2007, Jon Bon Jovi pulled back the album and wrote five more songs and two of them made the album.īon Jovi had a lot of success with ' Who Says You Can't Go Home', the second single from Have a Nice Day (2005). and by December they had written, recorded and prepared for mixing ten out of twelve songs. I'd like to give a couple of Nashville songwriters a chance to shine, and Richie and I would write a few songs to prove we could hold our own with these guys." Band members went to Nashville in September 2006.

I'd like to get two or three artists to do duets with. I'd like to knock out a quick record with a few country writers and artists and me and Richie. Jon explained: "I'm thinking of a Nashville sessions record. Their intention was to write songs and record duets with famous country songwriters and artists. In the summer of 2006, Jon Bon Jovi revealed that he and Richie Sambora were planning to go to Nashville, Tennessee to record the next Bon Jovi album. This was the band's first studio album in the country music genre. The album was nominated for Best Pop Vocal Album at the 2008 Grammy Awards. 1 and their third album to reach that position in the United States. 1 on the Billboard 200, becoming Bon Jovi's first ever album to debut at No. Following the success had with the duet version of "Who Says You Can't Go Home", there are two songs on the album produced in collaboration with other artists, namely "We Got It Going On" featuring Big & Rich and the single "Till We Ain't Strangers Anymore" featuring LeAnn Rimes.ĭescribed by Jon Bon Jovi as a "Bon Jovi album influenced by Nashville", the album debuted at No. The album influences the band's rock sound with that of country music following the success of a country version of the band's 2006 single " Who Says You Can't Go Home", a duet with Jennifer Nettles, which reached No. Produced by John Shanks and Dann Huff, the album was recorded at Black Bird Studios, Nashville and NGR Recording, Hollywood. Lost Highway is the tenth studio album by American rock band Bon Jovi, released on June 19, 2007, in the US through Island Records.
