On Feb. 25, Sevendust will hit the street with Three Days Grace and Disturbed for The Illness twenty fifth Anniversary Tour. Forward of the tour launch, frontman Lajon Witherspoon joined Loudwire Nights on Wednesday (Feb. 19) to speak about all of it — and rather more.
Take heed to the total dialog within the participant close to the top of this text.
“It has been one thing I have been wanting ahead to for a very long time,” Witherspoon instructed host Chuck Armstrong.
“The very fact to go full circle, to return again and be capable to tour with Disturbed once more after our youthful days once we did it and did festivals and frolicked and performed — it is actually cool. And Three Days Grace and what they’re doing, that new monitor [“Mayday”] and each the blokes being collectively, singing. I believe it is superb.”
One other factor Witherspoon is happy about is to play venues he is by no means performed earlier than, together with the legendary Madison Sq. Backyard in New York Metropolis.
“Get out of right here, that is a bucket listing for me,” he stated.
“Any individual stated to me yesterday that they can not imagine we have by no means performed Madison Sq. Backyard. Properly, I can imagine we have by no means performed there earlier than. That is undoubtedly one thing that is going to be cool.”
Sevendust — And Lajon Witherspoon — Are Pondering About New Music
When Chuck introduced up the truth that Sevendust’s newest album, Fact Killer, got here out practically two years in the past, Witherspoon was stunned it has been that lengthy.
Luckily, he had excellent news for followers.
“Issues are within the works,” he shared.
“It is so humorous you are speaking about that proper now. Between every little thing — me and Morgan [Rose], we’re making an attempt to place collectively a setlist for the Disturbed and the headlining run — we are actually wanting contained in the Sevendust music field with 20 or so songs that we’re form of weeding by means of proper now to see what we like.”
Witherspoon stated they create their finest work after they’re collectively in a room with their devices: “Simply these younger males, like we had been once we first began. That is the place the magic occurs.”
Along with looking for a time to discover that magic in-between every little thing Sevendust have occurring, Witherspoon stated he is additionally engaged on his personal solo mission.
“I have been undoubtedly going to Nashville quite a bit currently, I am working with some cats on the market,” he stated.
“A couple of totally different cats which have truly been writing with Jelly Roll and a number of other huge artists which have come out of the Nashville scene … We’ve got this nice working relationship and I’ve additionally been invited to put in writing with different artists.”
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If followers are curious what Witherspoon’s solo music will sound like, he had loads to share.
“I am so excited,” he instructed the Loudwire Nights viewers.
“It does not get too far-off from Sevendust. I really feel prefer it’s the soulful, rock, R&B, nation kind of stuff that I am doing, but it surely’s all around the spectrum of music that I like. I can be sharing that very quickly.”
What Else Did Sevendust’s Lajon Witherspoon Focus on on Loudwire Nights?
- Why he is excited to be enjoying Creed’s Summer time of ’99 and Past Cruise after attending it final 12 months as a passenger: “If anybody even considered me making an attempt to sing, you’d have thought I used to be Stevie Surprise’s cousin, however I could not hear both. I used to be like, ‘No, I will take one other piña colada.”
- One among his favourite Ozzy Osbourne reminiscences: “I do not know if lots of people know this…[Ozzy] invited us and we toured Australia with him. It was simply us and Ozzy. We flew on the airplane with Ozzy in all places. It was freaking loopy.”
- Why he is grateful to look again at what Sevendust have completed over time: “Music has undoubtedly stored me alive and I hope it is stored so many different folks alive and we’ll nonetheless proceed to try this as a result of I really feel like we’re docs and we’re simply right here to provide the medication.”
Take heed to the Full Interview within the Podcast Participant Beneath
Lajon Witherspoon joined Loudwire Nights on Wednesday, Feb. 19; the present replays on-line right here, and you may tune in reside each weeknight at 7PM ET or on the Loudwire app; you too can see if the present is offered in your native radio station and take heed to interviews on-demand.
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