Never Look Back is the debut work of Michael Fitz, who, until the release of his album, worked on an offshore drilling rig in the Gulf of Mexico.  Certainly, an isolated condition like that will fire your brain with many thoughts.  As it would turn out to be, Fitz, who has been a guitar player since age 11, and writing material before that, began to construct an album of thought and observation.  Don’t Look Back is that album.

Don’t Look Back is filled with songs that look at many things, especially that of the exhilaration of life.  But the music that carries those words is excellent, resulting in an album that is both musically exciting to listen to and filled with the heat of lust, the thrill of relief, and the heart of man.

The first single off the album, “The Way It Goes” has the feel of a Springsteen song, words and all.  It’s a song that Fitz calls his mantra with its theme of coping with life.  It’s a call to living with all of your means and then some more “…until the day you fall into the light.”

There are nine tracks of songs that are a step above the usual offerings that stream from TV shows.  There are some great tunes on here like the smokin’, white-hot and funky “Temptation.”  Worth the discovery.