Sammy Hagar stated his subsequent album will not sound “remotely nation,” regardless of working with famed Nashville nation producer Dave Cobb.
The Purple Rocker shacked up inside Nashville’s RCA Studios — whose A and B rooms have welcomed Elvis Presley, Willie Nelson, Dolly Parton, B.B. King and numerous different music icons — to make his new LP, Loopy Instances, which is tentatively set to return out this yr. “It is nice, my greatest songwriting ever, greatest manufacturing ever, and we made 4 movies already,” Hagar not too long ago boasted to Forbes.
Though Cobb is greatest identified for his work with nation and Americana artists like Chris Stapleton, Brandi Carlile and Sturgill Simpson, Hagar stated the producer was decided to make a tough rock report. “David Cobb stated, ‘I am not gonna do something that even sounds something remotely nation on this report,’ ‘trigger I needed to make an Americana report, somewhat bit much less onerous rock,” the singer defined. “He goes, ‘I wanna make Standing Hampton. I wanna make the report I grew up on, I wanna hear you and Mikey [Anthony] sing such as you did in ‘High of the World’ with Van Halen. That is what we’re gonna get out of you guys.'”
Hagar was in good firm, as Cobb not too long ago produced 4, Slash’s latest album with Myles Kennedy and the Conspirators. “I am positive Slash came upon the identical approach, this man needs to rock, he do not need to make no nation report with Sammy Hagar,” the rocker added.
Hagar was additionally pleasantly shocked to see a number of nation artists digging his music through the recording course of. “Chris Stapleton, the fellows from Big and Rich, Massive Kenny got here down to listen to some stuff,” he stated. “My Nashville pals, Ronnie Dunn, these guys are coming down wanting to listen to my report, and desirous to see what I am doing, as a result of these nation guys are rock followers. … All these guys that stay in Nashville now, all of them go, ‘Man. We grew up on Van Halen, on early Sammy Hagar.’ I could not consider it. Ronnie Dunn stood there singing, ‘Come on child, end what ya began.’ And I am going, ‘Wow, these guys are professional want-to-be rock stars.'”
A brand new album is only one of a number of present tasks for Hagar. The singer will embark on the Loopy Instances tour with George Thorogood from June via September, and he not too long ago launched a mixology ebook titled Sammy Hagar’s Cocktail Hits. Hagar drew parallels between his new album and ebook, saying the LP is “like this ebook, it is a hybrid of every little thing I’ve ever been concerned with musically. David Cobb is the rationale as a result of he squeezed it out of me.”
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