Legendary bassist/vocalist
Glenn Hughes (
DEEP PURPLE, BLACK SABBATH, BLACK COUNTRY COMMUNION, CALIFORNIA BREED) spoke to
Billboard.com about his first solo album in eight years, which was recently completed at a studio in Copenhagen, Denmark for a tentative November release. Joining him during the sessions for the follow-up to 2008's
"First Underground Nuclear Kitchen" were
Søren Andersen (guitar),
Pontus Engborg (drums) and
Lachlan "Lachy" Doley (keyboards).
"It's possibly the heaviest record I've ever made," said
Hughes. "I don't want to confuse it with horns-up heavy; it's not metal. But it's definitely fucking heavy. It's dense. It's dark. There's some aggression on this record. Every bloody track is begging to be played live."
Songtitles set to appear on
Hughes's new album include
"Let It Shine", "God Of Money" and
"Steady", with
RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS drummer
Chad Smith, a regular
Hughes collaborator, making a guest appearance.
While he was in the studio recording his new album,
Hughes talked to Denmark's Metalized magazine about the musical diversity that has been his trademark throughout his four-decade-plus career.
"I never make the same album twice," he said. "Go back to the first
TRAPEZE album. The second was different and the third one was different. And then you go to
'Burn', and
'Stormbringer' was different from that, and then
'Come Taste The Band'. You got
HUGHES/THRALL and that was different from
DEEP PURPLE. And then you go to
'Seventh Star' with
Tony Iommi. That was different from
HUGHES/THRALL. And then the blues album and then the
Glenn solo albums."
He continued: "Although some of [my albums] have been very, very soulful and very, very funky, the key for me — as I am an Englishman that grew up in the West Midlands — is rock. But when I moved to America in the early seventies, I started to listen to what came out of Detroit. And I met
Stevie Wonder. He became a very, very close friend and still is. He became my mentor.
"I need people to know that my success has come from the foundation of rock music. As much as I love
THE BEATLES,
Otis Redding and
Stevie Wonder, when you think of Glenn Hughes, you think of the guy who plays bass and sings in any register."
Hughes added: "I am friends with a lot of famous rock stars and they are one genre. I wouldn't say who, but they have a one-genre-dimensional sound. You know it's them. And you know it's me because of my voice.
"I have been cursed and blessed with the ability to switch very quickly from rock to soul to funk to acoustic and almost into jazz — without scaring people. When you mix those ingredients, that's
Glenn Hughes."This will be an album that is entirely
Glenn Hughes music. For that reason, it is an important album."
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