’’Desperado’’ is a concept album with songs that drift slowly and then as a complete counterpoint offers heavy rockers that insistently pound away at your ears. With this album you can close your eyes and drift into your favourite western film, with all the stock characters:
The man on the run with no safe haven, who drifts from town to town trying to find somewhere to settle down but warns ’’woman don’t try to love me, don’t try to understand, a life upon the road is the life of an outlaw man’’ [OUTLAW MAN]
The young man who thinks that he can make it in the west, that he is as young and ’’fast’’ and strong as he needs to be (until his first gunfight that is) [TWENTY-ONE]
The dreamer who wants to build a reputation for himself but is going about it the wrong way because he wants to be a gunfighter. ’’It’s a certain kind of fool that likes to hear the sound of his own name’’. [A CERTAIN KIND OF FOOL]
The man on the run who has found only heartache during his flight [DESPERADO]
The bravure of the gang member [DOOLIN’ DALTON & DOOLIN DALTON Reprise]