Post-grunge group Puddle of Mudd have announced their next album will be a collection of cover songs from a hand-picked list of artists – everyone from AD/DC to the Steve Miller Band to Elton John.
The set, titled re:(disc)overed, will drop August 2. The collection is the follow-up to 2009’s Volume 4: Songs in the Key of Love & Hate.
While the band set out to record an album of new material, the toll of the road pushed them to do a covers collection instead.
“Since we started we’ve been non-stop – make a record, go on tour, then right into rehearsals and the next record, then back on tour...,” guitarist Paul Phillip told Billboard.com. “We were really burned out, and when we started trying to write again it just wasn't time yet. And we had been doing [AC/DC’s] ‘TNT’ and [the Steve Miller Band’s] ‘The Joker’ and had so much fun with those that one thing led to another and we decided to make a covers record. It was just something fun to do, and we had a blast.”
The album packs 15 songs, 11 of which Puddle of Mudd recorded with producer Bill Appleberry earlier this year at Los Angeles’ Bomb Shelter, a recording space owned by Stone Temple Pilots drummer Eric Kretz. The first single, The Rolling Stones’ “Gimme Shelter,” is scheduled to hit radio in mid-June.
The guys took special care to choose an eclectic variety of performers to cover.
“We chose a lot of things that were challenging,” Phillip said. “People hear Puddle’s gonna do a covers album and they think it’ll be Nirvana and the Ramones and Metallica and stuff like that. And that's something we wanted to do, but we wanted to stretch our legs, and it was a very challenging thing to have songs that have piano and these big, crazy arrangements and stuff. I mean, doing an Elton John song with piano and backup singers and stuff is not easy. It’s easier to record a Puddle of Mudd song, but to tackle an arrangement like that is a lot more difficult to do, and that’s what we wanted.”
Puddle of Mudd just wrapped up a last-minute gig at Rock on the Range music festival in Columbus, Ohio, last weekend, and they’re set to tour this summer, starting Memorial Day weekend with festival shows in St. Louis and St. Paul, Minnesota, and a stint at the U.K.’s Download Festival on June 10.
The track list for Puddle of Mudd's re:(disc)overed:
“Gimme Shelter” (Rolling Stones)
“Old Man” (Neil Young)
“TNT” (AC/DC)
“Stop Draggin’ My Heart Around” (Stevie Nicks with Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers)
“The Joker” (Steve Miller Band)
“Everybody Wants You” (Billy Squier)
“Rocket Man” (Elton John)
“All Right Now” (Free)
“Shooting Star” (Bad Company)
“Funk 49” (James Gang)
“D'yer M'ker” (Led Zeppelin)
The set, titled re:(disc)overed, will drop August 2. The collection is the follow-up to 2009’s Volume 4: Songs in the Key of Love & Hate.
While the band set out to record an album of new material, the toll of the road pushed them to do a covers collection instead.“Since we started we’ve been non-stop – make a record, go on tour, then right into rehearsals and the next record, then back on tour...,” guitarist Paul Phillip told Billboard.com. “We were really burned out, and when we started trying to write again it just wasn't time yet. And we had been doing [AC/DC’s] ‘TNT’ and [the Steve Miller Band’s] ‘The Joker’ and had so much fun with those that one thing led to another and we decided to make a covers record. It was just something fun to do, and we had a blast.”
The album packs 15 songs, 11 of which Puddle of Mudd recorded with producer Bill Appleberry earlier this year at Los Angeles’ Bomb Shelter, a recording space owned by Stone Temple Pilots drummer Eric Kretz. The first single, The Rolling Stones’ “Gimme Shelter,” is scheduled to hit radio in mid-June.
The guys took special care to choose an eclectic variety of performers to cover.
“We chose a lot of things that were challenging,” Phillip said. “People hear Puddle’s gonna do a covers album and they think it’ll be Nirvana and the Ramones and Metallica and stuff like that. And that's something we wanted to do, but we wanted to stretch our legs, and it was a very challenging thing to have songs that have piano and these big, crazy arrangements and stuff. I mean, doing an Elton John song with piano and backup singers and stuff is not easy. It’s easier to record a Puddle of Mudd song, but to tackle an arrangement like that is a lot more difficult to do, and that’s what we wanted.”
Puddle of Mudd just wrapped up a last-minute gig at Rock on the Range music festival in Columbus, Ohio, last weekend, and they’re set to tour this summer, starting Memorial Day weekend with festival shows in St. Louis and St. Paul, Minnesota, and a stint at the U.K.’s Download Festival on June 10.
The track list for Puddle of Mudd's re:(disc)overed:
“Gimme Shelter” (Rolling Stones)
“Old Man” (Neil Young)
“TNT” (AC/DC)
“Stop Draggin’ My Heart Around” (Stevie Nicks with Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers)
“The Joker” (Steve Miller Band)
“Everybody Wants You” (Billy Squier)
“Rocket Man” (Elton John)
“All Right Now” (Free)
“Shooting Star” (Bad Company)
“Funk 49” (James Gang)
“D'yer M'ker” (Led Zeppelin)
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