GNR legend Duff McKagan has announced that he is completing work on his brand new solo record. The album is produced by country/rock star Shooter Jennings.
Duff and Shooter began work in the Station House studios in Echo Park, Ca in March of this year. McKagan is planning to release the solo offering sometime next year.
According to Antimusic, the musician had this to say,
“I wrote a couple of articles about historical places I passed through on this last tour and people kept asking if that was going to be the focus of my next book. But an unseen and irrepressible force guided me to write little vignettes of reflective prose…little instant-reactions.”
McKagan explained that his time on the road coupled with a love for his daughters was the driving force for this record,
“The heartbreak, anger, fear, confusion and divide I have experienced over the last two and a half years of traveling this globe of ours coerced these words into songs that tell my truth, and one that I hope will spread and help us all. I do this for my daughters…I do this for my love of where I grew up…I do this, because I truly feel it must be done and said right now.”
Shooter added that he feels this is an album that needs to be heard,
“From the first night we sat together at my piano hashing out arrangements of his songs, before going into the studio to record them, I felt it was a really important record that had to be heard,” says Jennings. “The songs have so much heart and are so musical that I could just hear all the arrangements immediately and I could really feel them.”
Jennings discussed his longtime relationship with McKagan,
“I met Duff right after I moved to Los Angeles nearly twenty years ago. I was such a massive Guns N’ Roses fan when I was younger. I’d say that they had a lot to do with me even moving to LA. But there was some kind of magnetic force I guess that kept us orbiting each other over the years. When the idea of collaborating with him on this album came up, I was very eager to get the job as producer.”
Guns N’ Roses’ Duff McKagan is cooking up a 2019 solo album with Shooter Jennings: https://t.co/f8ymX7vpTF pic.twitter.com/xbPeZZ00HD
— Consequence of Sound (@consequence) December 5, 2018
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