Glenn morrow’s Cry For Help

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Hoboken rockers-for-life Glenn Morrow’s Cry For Help announce their latest opus Our Final Album-Vol. 1

Now in its twelfth year together, Hoboken rockers-for-life Glenn Morrow’s Cry For Help announce their latest opus Our Final Album-Vol. 1.

Recorded, like its predecessors by producer/musician Ray Ketchem, at his Montclair, NJ, Magic Door Studio, the album features 11 new songs and finds the band exploring a number of styles and moods from straight up rockers like “That’s That,” “Beatle Bones” and “Into Something New”, ballads “Stop Your Crying” bossa “Boom Boom” neo-soul “Let’s Stay In Bed” and classic rock with the live favorite “Ophelia at the Five and Dime”.

Heavily featured this time out is guest keyboardist Andrew Burton, a much in demand touring and studio musician (Steve Van Zandt, Cyndy Lauper, Ian Hunter) Burton had a gap in his schedule and poured himself into the album even writing an intro piece for the song “In Love With Love.”

Glenn Morrow already had a storied history as a founding member of “a” the first band to play at the legendary Hoboken music club Maxwell’s in the late 70s. Glenn next formed the Individuals and also served as an editor/writer at New York Rocker. 

In 1986, his new band Rage To Live became the first band signed to startup label Bar/None Records. Later that year, Glenn would become a partner in the label and eventually sole proprietor, a post he held until earlier this year when he turned the label over to long-time employee Emmy Black.

Morrow began to feel the itch to make music and wade into band life again after being inspired by re-union shows with his old bands at the closing night of Maxwell’s. He didn’t want the fun to stop and suddenly new songs started coming to him at a brisk clip. Over the course of 2014, a band took shape around Mike Rosenberg (bass), Ric Sherman (guitar) and finally, Ron Metz (drums). All were veterans of the local Hoboken scene (Human Switchboard, the Schramms, the Pussywillows).

The band gigged locally and built a set list of Glenn’s new songs. 

Their debut album Glenn Morrow’s Cry For Help was released on the Rhyme & Reason label in 2017 followed by their streaming-only  sophomore album “2” in the COVID-crazed latter days of 2020. There are plans for a vinyl release of “2” later this year.

Ray Ketchem had this to say about working with the band—

“Producing the third album from Glenn Morrow’s Cry For Help drove home how sharp their instincts for hooks remain - they land with the confidence that only comes from decades of playing in bands. Glenn’s storytelling honestly reflects his generation, with a touch of melancholy, that gives the record an emotional weight.“

Here’s hoping Glenn Morrow’s Cry For Help will make it to your town in 2026.