Drummer Carmine Appice has introduced the discharge of a brand new album from 70s icons Cactus.
Temple of Blues – Influences & Pals is the follow-up to 2021’s Tightrope, and lines contributions from a plethora of stellar names together with Joe Bonamassa, Dee Snider, Pat Travers, Warren Haynes, Vernon Reid, Steve Stevens, Ted Nugent, Johnny A (The Yardbirds), Ty Tabor and Dug Pinnick (each King’s X), Billy Sheehan (Mr Large), Tony Franklin (The Company, Blue Homicide), Tim “Ripper” Ownens (ex-Judas Priest), Phil Soussan (Ozzy Osbourne, Billy Idol), Rudy Sarzo (Quiet Revolt, Ozzy Osbourne), Kenny Aaronson (ex- Joan Jett and The Yardbirds), in addition to participants of Govt Mule, Vixen, Rainbow, Zebra, and Whitesnake.
Unique Cactus guitarist Jim McCarty additionally seems at the album, as does Appice’s Vanilla Fudge bandmate Mark Stein, who sings on a canopy of Little Richard’s Lengthy Tall Sally. Complete tracklist beneath.
“The track of Cactus has all the time been steeped in blues custom,” says Appice. “We saved listening to from such a lot of of our track superstar buddies how a lot Cactus influenced them and the way they would like to be a visitor on a Cactus album. Even our label President, Brian Perera from Cleopatra Information, recommended to us that this album occurs. So, Temple Of Blues used to be the logical subsequent step.”
The primary end result of this concoction come within the form of a canopy of Howlin’ Wolf’s vintage Evil, that includes Dee Snider and Dug Pinnick.
“To get a decision from Carmine Appice, asking me to sing this music on a Cactus album is likely one of the highlights of my profession,” says Snider. “He advised me I sounded extra just like the past due nice Rusty Day than any person else he ever heard. In fact I do! You do not fuck with perfection!”
Day, Cactus’s authentic frontman, used to be machine-gunned to dying in his house in Orlando, FL, in March 1982, throughout a drug deal long gone improper.
Temple of Blues is to be had to pre-order now.
Cactus: Temple of Blues – Influences & Pals tracklist
1. Parchman Farm feat. Joe Bonamassa & Billy Sheehan (Mr. Large / David Lee Roth)
2. Bro. Invoice feat. Randy Jackson (Zebra), Randy Pratt (Cactus) & Bob Daisley (Ozzy Osbourne)
3. Guiltless Glider feat. Ron “Bumblefoot” Thal (Weapons N’ Roses) & Phil Soussan (Ozzy Osbourne)
4. Evil feat. Dee Snider (Twisted Sister) & Dug Pinnick (King’s X)
5. One Manner…Or Some other feat. Dug Pinnick (King’s X) & Ted Nugent
6. Alaska feat. Johnny A. & Tony Franklin (The Company)
7. No Want To Fear feat. Warren Haynes (Gov’t Mule) & Jorgen Carlsson (Gov’t Mule)
8. Oleo feat. Steve Stevens (Billy Idol) & Billy Sheehan (Mr. Large / David Lee Roth)
9. Large Mama Boogie feat. Pat Travers & James Caputo (Cactus)
10. You Can not Pass judgement on A Ebook By way of The Quilt|
11. Rock N’ Roll Kids feat. Britt Lightning (Vixen), Vernon Reid (Dwelling Color) & Rudy Sarzo (Quiet Revolt)
12. Let Me Swim feat. Doug Aldrich (Whitesnake) & Marco Mendoza (Blue Homicide)
13. Restrictions feat. Ty Tabor (King’s X) & Phil Soussan (Ozzy Osbourne)
14. Lengthy Tall Sally feat. Mark Stein (Vanilla Fudge) & Fernando Perdomo
Bonus Monitor
15. Guiltless Glider feat. Tim “Ripper” Owens (Judas Priest)
