On
Bad Company
's fourth album,
Burnin' Sky
, the band's approach was simple and formulaic, although
Mick Ralphs
continued to play his sparse guitar leads and
Paul Rodgers
continued to present his lust in a soulful voice. Lacking a hit single, this was the first
album to miss the Top Ten in the U.S. and the U.K., as the band tossed in a '50s pastiche in
"Everything I Need"
and crooned
"The Happy Wanderer"
as if on a drunken pub crawl. There were plenty of those patented ominous midtempo rockers, too, of course. ~ William Ruhlmann