As of 2003, the date printed on this bare-bones self-titled release available on his website, www.jbppresentsmartybalin.com, and on www.jeffersonstarshipsf.com, Marty Balin was 61 years old and had been singing and recording pop/rock love songs for more than 40 years, as a solo artist and with such groups as Jefferson Airplane and Jefferson Starship. It also had been 14 years since he had been associated with a major record label, when he had been part of a short-lived Jefferson Airplane reunion that produced an album on Epic Records in 1989. Yet Balin continued to present material that sounded commercial and accessible, singing in his distinctive tenor melodic tunes that could have fit easily on adult contemporary radio. This nine-track album was no exception. The first five songs (Don't Be Sad Anymore, City Lights, Free as a Bird, L.A. Girls, and Viva la Vida) also appeared on another of his website-only releases, Lost Treasures: The Aviator, and combined with the remaining four they presented attractive material mostly detailing the ups and downs of love. There were exceptions to the subject matter (Viva la Vida is a tribute to the painter Frida Kahlo; Rockin' Blues is a musician's autobiography in song), but not to the unfailingly engaging approach. The album was consistent in style with Balin's two major-label solo albums of the early '80s, Balin and Lucky, and like them was not as impressive as the best of his work with Jefferson Airplane and Jefferson Starship, but nevertheless always entertaining, especially for those who had grown to love his voice over the years. ~ William Ruhlmann, Rovi

1		Don't Be Sad Anymore
2		City Lights
3		Free as a Bird
4		L.A. Girls
5		Viva la Vida
6		Dance You Outta My Mind
7		Dance All Night
8		Rockin' Blues
9		Time for Every Season

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