Alice in Chains reunion spawns album, tour
July 02, 2009
By JOHN BENSON
Billboard.com
CLEVELAND _ Alice in Chains singer-guitarist Jerry Cantrell and drummer Sean Kinney tell Billboard.com that the Seattle band’s first album in nearly 14 years, “Black Gives Way To Blue,” due out Sept. 29, doesn’t stray too far from its influential catalog. “It’s nice to sound like yourself,” laughs Kinney. “It’s not really that hard, actually. I know people are blown away that we really sound like ourselves, and I understand the apprehension, but it’s not really that big a stretch to sound the way that you sound.” Adds Cantrell, “We were just hoping to make the best record we possibly could and we did that. Sean and I talk a lot about when you do a record, you’ve been working on it a long time, and you’re pretty sick of it by the time somebody else hears it. You’re already thinking of the next thing. And we’re still listening to this. It’s still like really exciting to listen to and that’s really good.”
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