New Jersey’s other famous rock act soldiers on. Bon Jovi came to epitomize hair-metal music in the late 1980s. But singer Jon Bon Jovi and his bandmates survived by changing with the times and staying on the charts with power ballads and country crossovers alike. The veteran rockers’ 12th album is a stripped-down affair that focuses on their favorite theme: the plight of working people. On the Springsteen-like title track, an arena-ready rocker, Bon Jovi asks “who stands for the restless and the lonely, for the desperate and the hungry?” The acoustic “What’s Left of Me” champions “the teacher, the farmer, the union man” who find it “hard to make a living in this hard land.” The album’s anthe...
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