Salting Earth

2017 release, the 21st solo album from the acclaimed guitarist. The follow-up to 2015's Cannibals is described as a "one-man production" with added background vocals on the track 'Make It Easy' provided by Julia Lage. Salting Earth features the track "Grammy" which surfaced last year. And Kotzen reveals it came to him "in the oddest way at the most inconvenient time." He continues: "I basically woke myself up with the chorus melody in my head, and in my haze, I knew that if I didn't at least record the idea, it would be forever lost. "I ended up programming a simple drum beat, and then recorded the acoustic guitar. The lyrics pretty much wrote themselves. By 6am, the song was finished." He adds: "I was going to do more overdubs, but I kept playing it over and over, and I just felt like there was something so personal coming out of the speakers. By messing with it, I'd likely destroy the magic - so I left it as it is." Kotzen spent much of 2015 and 2016 with Mike Portnoy and Billy Sheehan in The Winery Dogs. They released their second album Hot Streak last year.