Bust out the leopard print spandex, develop out the ol’ hairdo and kink it out with a curly everlasting, and steal your sister’s eyeliner and rouge as a result of it’s time to totally embrace the hair steel period once more … apparently.
Alex Williams is fairly highly-regarded as a rustic music Outlaw revivalist, together with his final album Waging Peace incomes an 8.2 ranking round these components. Williams has additionally been extremely considered a dwell performer and songwriter all through the impartial nation world, collaborating with Cody Jinks and others.
However for his subsequent file, Alex has received a thoughts to do one thing slightly extra offbeat and enjoyable. No, he’s not going hair steel. He’s making hair steel go nation by masking ten hair steel classics in a rustic type. Alex is placing his nation spin on well-recognized songs by Cinderella, Ratt, Mötley Crüe, Skid Row, Poison, in addition to different steel legends like Motörhead, Ozzy Osbourne, and Weapons N’ Roses.
Alex Williams assembled a crack staff of guitar gamers like Dan Dugmore and Rob McNelley to drag this all off beneath the manufacturing of longtime collaborator Ben Fowler. Although nation and glam steel would possibly make unusual bedfellows on the floor, Williams noticed the thought as a problem and a chance to emphasise the storytelling and songcraft beneath all of the hairspray of the period.
Alex Williams followers can’t be too shocked at this challenge. In the summertime of 2024, he dropped a rustic music cowl of Ozzy Osborne’s “Flying Excessive Once more” that includes Cody Jinks. We although it was only a one-off tune on the time, however this was simply the primary style. Alex has launched his model of Ratt’s “Spherical and Spherical” to coincide with the album announcement (hear beneath).
“‘Spherical and Spherical’ is one in every of my favourite songs of all time and has been because the first time I heard it,” says Williams. “I’ve to say so far as this one goes, I had labored up an alternate model of it first, prior to creating the choice to do a full album of covers. Because of this, it felt extra pure to put the tune down when it got here time to file.”
The gathering might be referred to as Area Mind, and is being launched by Lightning Rod Data on July 18th. It’s now obtainable for pre-save/pre-order.
1. No person’s Idiot (feat. Tom Keifer) [Cinderella]
2. Ace of Spades [Motörhead]
3. Flying Excessive Once more (feat. Cody Jinks) [Ozzy Osbourne]
4. Gettin’ Higher [Tesla]
5. Look What The Cat Dragged In [Poison]
6. Youth Gone Wild [Skid Row]
7. You’ve Obtained One other Factor Coming [Judas Priest]
8. Wild Aspect [Mötley Crüe]
9. Spherical and Spherical [Ratt]
10. Night time Practice [Guns N’ Roses]
