Teaming with veteran producer Jim Scott, the duo of Eric Lowen and Dan Navarro originally released Walking on a Wire in 1990. Lowen Navarro both handle guitar and vocal chores, creating lightweight, albeit melodic, acoustic-based folk-pop. Walking on a Wire isn't a bad record as much as it is an inconsequential one. The two do know their way around a melody and do make most every cut seem instantly familiar with engaging choral hooks. They had some success as songwriters prior to this release with Pat Benatar's Top Five hit We Belong, which they include here in a much more sedate and wistful version sung partly in Spanish, and David Lee Roth recorded Hammerhead Shark, also included here. The problem is that there just isn't much substance to the lyrics, which are rather simplistic insights into love and relationships. Even the appearance of Navarro's alternative rock guitar god cousin, David Navarro, can't raise this effort beyond ordinary. In 1994, when Lowen Navarro were contracted to the Parachute imprint of Mercury Records, the label reissued Walking on a Wire with three bonus tracks. Generally, such reissues feature unused songs from the original album sessions, but in this case Lowen Navarro, using some of the same musicians and producer Jim Scott again, went back into the studio and cut three new tracks: the love song Rapt in You, the rocker Turn Out the Lights (And Go to Bed), and the ballad Goldmine. The last of these was the keeper, although, ironically, written by one J. Rafael, not the singer/songwriters. It was a song in which a lover pleaded with his or her partner to stop fighting in order to preserve the relationship. The new tracks were in the same vein of the old ones, and the album remained a pleasant, but slight collection. ~ William Ruhlmann, Rovi

1		Somewhere Far Away
2		Walking on a Wire
3		Oh Mary
4		The Spell You're Under
5		Seven Bridges
6		What I Make Myself Believe
7		Someone Like You
8		We Belong
9		C'est la Vie
10		She Said No
11		Hammerhead Shark
12		Rapt in You
13		Turn Out the Lights (And Go to Bed)
14		Goldmine