Myles Kennedy (Alter Bridge, etc.) is planning to release a new solo album titled “Year of the Tiger” in 2018. He revealed the news in the below interview with Metal Wani:
Kennedy says the effort, which was produced by Michael “Elvis” Baskette, is “probably the closest thing to a full-on concept record [he’s] ever written”:
“The story is congruent throughout the entire … It basically tells a story from start to finish, and it documents when my father passed away when I was a kid and basically what happened after that with my mom, my brother and I — it tells that story, so it’s a full-on concept from start to finish.”
The singer says he actually had a whole other album with a first mix completed in 2016, but he ended up deciding to start over:
“I was very busy playing with Alter Bridge and touring with that, but in my spare time, I was chipping away at this record, so when I actually documented it and finished it, I had to step back and look at it with a fresh perspective and say, ‘You know what? You’ve gotta be honest with yourself as a writer. Is this where you are now? No. And is this what you want to represent where you are now? No.’ That was a hard decision for me to make, because there was a lot of work that went into it. Not just work, but time and money, and I just felt like, regardless of that, I had to scrap and start over. So I started writing again late last year, early this year, and, fortunately, I had plenty of ideas to draw from.”
He also added the following about the album’s sound:
“’Year of the Tiger’ definitely has much more of a blues-based vibe … the instrumentation is certainly somewhat of a departure. I tried to veer away from any sort of high-gain wall of sound. There’s plenty of resonator guitar, mandolin… there’s even banjo, a lot of lap steel. So it’s definitely different from what I’ve done.”
Stay tuned for more news on the effort when it becomes available.
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