For most people, time stood still throughout much of 2020, with the initial wave of the COVID pandemic restricting us to our homes. Jerry Cantrell was no exception – in virtual lockdown, the legendary Alice In Chains frontman was forced to stay close to his home base in Seattle. Before COVID hit, he had just recorded most of the basics for his new solo album (a three-way production he shares with Tyler Bates and Paul Figueroa) in Los Angeles, and once he returned to Seattle he resumed work on the record at home studios in one-on-one sessions, or by sending files back and forth between musicians.
Depending on how you keep score, is either Cantrell’s third or fourth solo album. and as the record’s optimistic and walloping title track suggests, the guitarist is in a pretty good place these days. Perhaps owing to
