A brand new album from the Faces, their first since 1973’s Ooh La La, could possibly be launched subsequent yr, in response to drummer Kenney Jones. And that is not the one new Faces ‘product’ within the planning phases it appears.
The legendary English rock ‘n’ roll band – that includes vocalist Rod Stewart, guitarist Ronnie Wooden and drummer Jones – have (briefly) reunited plenty of instances over the previous many years, most just lately in 2020, when the trio carried out their basic 1971 single Keep With Me on the Brit Awards.
Information that the band have been engaged on new music emerged throughout an interview that Ronnie Wooden carried out with The Instances newspaper in 2021.
Wooden instructed author Michael Odell that he and his spouse Sally had moved to a brand new dwelling in Little Venice, west London, and that Stewart and Jones had been working with him in the home’s recording studio.
“I noticed Mick [Jagger] right here final week and Rod [Stewart] and Kenney [Jones] have been right here yesterday,” Wooden revealed. “Me and Mick have performed 9 new tracks for the [40th anniversary] re-release of [the Rolling Stones’ 1981 album] Tattoo You. And me, Rod and Kenney have been recording some new Faces music.”
When music author Craig McLean interviewed Rod Stewart that very same yr, the singer revealed that he, Wooden and Jones had “15 tracks which might be extraordinarily worthy, some previous, some new.”
“We’ll get it completed, I promise,” Stewart mentioned on the time. “No different band seems like us.”
Now, in a brand new interview with McLean in The Telegraph, Kenney Jones says that the trio have recorded “about 11 tracks” at RAK studios in North London, with Jools Holland guesting on one music.
“Not all of them are going to be proper [for the album],” Jones says. “However most of them are good.”
“I can’t see it popping out this yr,” the drummer admitted. “However I can see it popping out subsequent yr. Everybody’s doing various things. We do little snippets [of recording] right here and there. Then swiftly, The Stones are out [on tour] once more, Rod’s out once more…”
Within the article, McLean additionally reveals that Jones’s spouse talked about that they’d been in London just a few days beforehand for a gathering “with Rod and Ronnie” a few Faces documentary. When. the author suggests to the drummer that maybe footage the band members filmed in 1972 may presumably be included in such a mission, Jones says, “It could possibly be. You’re guessing proper! It’s by no means been seen. And there’s some impolite bits in there!”
Additional particulars on the documentary are apparently “below wraps” for now.
