‘Rough Life’ just getting better for Reckless 4

Craig Bakay | Jan 29, 2020

Frontenac rockers Reckless 4 just released a new video of their original song Rough Life last week and things are looking up, says lead singer/guitarist Jordan Lowery.

“Just over the last year, our followers on Facebook have gone from a couple of hundred to over 7,000,” he said. “We just got an order for 20 CDs, plus T-shirts and posters from a guy in Australia,” Lowery said.

The band is Lowery on lead guitar and lead vocals, Jay Mills on guitar and vocals, Maxwell Jacobs on bass and vocals and newest member Chris Melanson on drums.

“Jay used to be the drummer but we convinced him to come out front and play guitar,” Lowery said.

Lowery and Mills started playing in school with Julia Schall’s School of Rock, eventually forming the band H.D. Supply. In 2017, they decided to abandon the cover-band concept opting for almost entirely original material and an EP (Hell Bent) and an LP (Union of the Wild) later, they’ve been getting radio play (on K-Rock) and last Monday were featured on Bill Welchyka’s Morning Show on Global Kingston.

The video, which is best accessed from the group’s Facebook page, features the Lowery/Mills tune Rough Life with a video narrative of how each band member just doesn’t seem to fit into the conventional workaday world.

High School friend Jacob White plays four different bosses in the video.