1 on this.’ I’m not looking forward to trying to tackle this or bite this off again, but it looks like it might come to fruition ’cause of the amount of guests who contacted us. “When people started to hear about this, man, I got a lot of phone calls, I mean a ton, from some very big band and big guys in big bands who wanted to be part of it,” Fafara recalls. 1 designation on the Outlaws album title, either. I get a feeling I’m starting to knock down some bucket lists.” And he promises he’s not kidding about the Vol. Fafara isn’t revealing specifics yet, but he notes that, “In 25 years I’ve never done a double record, never done a concept album, never done a covers album. With Outlaws coming July 6, DevilDriver will head back to the studio this month to make a double concept album, which will be released in two separate parts. If you go to a metal gig and walk around the tailgates you hear Willie Nelson into Slayer into Pantera into Johnny Cash, and no one is looking sideways at anyone. “Having these two genres combined is something that really needed to be done. “I wanted to combine two genres that have never been combined well,” Fafara explains. The combination of heavy metal and outlaw country proved to be an easy fit, however, regardless of how arduous the album process became. (laughs) A year and half into it I said to my wife, ‘I don’t even know if this thing is even gonna get done!'” “That quickly spiraled into two years of work. Let’s do a cover record,’ thinking ‘Let’s do something easy.’ The three-year wait concerned Fafara, so he decided “‘Let’s give the diehards something really cool to listen to in the interim. The group was preparing to start working on a new album of original material, a follow-up to 2016’s Trust No One, which probably wouldn’t be ready until 2019. Outlaws - which also features covers of songs made famous by Willie Nelson, Johnny Paycheck, George Jones, Dwight Yoakam, Steve Earle, the Eagles and others - was a bit of a surprise project for Fafara and DevilDriver. It’s a very non-traditional way to do it, but it got the best results, I think.” “I did the opposite I told everybody, ‘You lay the whole song and then I’ll decide where everything goes.’ So on ‘Ghost Riders’ we had John Carter Cash laying the whole thing, Randy laying the whole thing, myself laying the whole thing and then we put it all together. “It wasn’t me laying down my tracks and then everyone else laying down their tracks,” he explains. 'The Voice' Contestant Kate Cosentino Scores Three-Chair Turn: 'An Already-Made Star'
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