Credit: Suzie KaplanIt looks like Stray Cats will be rocking a lot of towns next year, as the rockabilly trio has announced plans to mount a 40th anniversary tour — and to release a new studio album, too!
The album, which the band will be recording in Nashville, will be the group’s first collection of new songs in 25 years. The record will be produced by Peter Collins, who previously has worked on projects by Stray Cats frontman Brian Setzer‘s The Brian Setzer Orchestra, Bon Jovi, Billy Squier, Rush, Alice Cooper and many others.
Earlier this year, Stray Cats — singer/guitarist Setzer, bassist Lee Rocker and drummer Slim Jim Phantom — reunited to play four U.S. American concerts, which were the band’s first stateside shows in nearly a decade.
“Forty years ago, us three teenagers started a little band to play a musical style that had long since passed, and most folks had never heard of, this Rockabilly music,” says Setzer in a statement. “Forty years later we stand together and still get that same thrill and exhilaration from the music. That feeling is what makes the fireworks go off and the sparks fly.”
Adds Phantom, “Making a new Stray Cats album for 2019 in Nashville seems like the exact right thing, right time, right place, and right band for the gig! We have an album’s worth of new songs that are classic rockabilly while keeping the music and style current and fresh, like always.”
Rocker, meanwhile, says, “I’m so excited to be in the studio with my brothers. I can tell you that this will be the best Stray Cats album we have ever made.”
More details about the new Stray Cats record and tour will be announced soon.
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