Find Your Own Way Home

In 2015, Cronin told Classic Rock: “I’m still writing some pretty cool stuff. I imagine we’ll do another record at some time.” As it stands, it is now 12 years since the band’s last original album.

Find Your Own Way Home did not chart in the US, let alone the UK, but in its best songs were echoes of past glories: Smilin’ In The End was a rowdy rock number, while the title track mixed AOR with a touch of Nashville, and I Needed To

Fall was a brilliant modern power ballad.

This album would have been a good way for REO to sign off. If only they hadn’t followed it with a silly Christmas record.