Ruby Topaz – ‘Mark Bram / Ruby Topaz Again 23rd Anniversary Remaster’ [Album Review]

Progressive glam rock outfit Ruby Topaz, the project of Mark Bram, recently dropped an anniversary album, Mark Bram / Ruby Topaz Again 23rd Anniversary Remaster, which spans the almost 40-year history of the band. The album follows on the heels of last year’s Rabbit Hole. Talking about Ruby Topaz’s sound, guitarist/vocalist Mark Bram shares,” We have the glam and theatrics of Cooper and Bowie, the sophisticated rock of Queen, the power and urgency of early Zeppelin with the melodic prowess of early Beatles.” Ruby Topaz performed their progressive brand of glam rock in Rhode Island as well as at CBGB, Gildersleeves, and L’Amour’s in New York. Bram co-wrote “A Piece of Our Hearts’” with Al Gomes of BIGNOISE RECORDS for Rhode Island Bandwagon, a project to feed the homeless in Rhode Island. O...

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