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Alter Bridge’s Myles Kennedy talks new album

‘Walk The Sky’

THE AMERICAN METAL BAND’S

FRONTMAN ON THE THEMES THAT
INFORMED THE NEW RECORD, FUN

MEMORIES OF ACE GUITARIST A s much as Alter
Bridge love to
rip through the
SLASH AND MORE riffs and bring incendiary
energy on their just-released
B Y A N U R AG T AG A T album Walk the Sky, there’s
also trademark moments
of sprawling, arena-rock
vibrancy. Across both heavy
and lighter tracks on their
sixth record, vocalist and
guitarist Myles Kennedy tells
us that mindfulness played a
big role in shaping the lyrics
and sound of Walk the Sky,
which released via Napalm
Records.
He says over the phone
from his home in Spokane,
Washington, “It was really the
liberation I felt once I started
to incorporate mindfulness
into my life. A lot of these
songs explore that. I would
say songs like ‘In The Deep’
and ‘Wouldn’t You Rather’…
a number of tracks touch on
that philosophy.”
The release of Walk
the Sky continues a
nonstop couple of years
for Kennedy. In 2017 and
2018, he was readying and
promoting two albums –
his debut solo effort Year
of the Tiger and Guns N’
Roses guitar legend Slash’s
own record Living the Dream.
“I would say in the last… 10
years, the album and tour
cycles have run up to… there
have literally been no breaks,”
Kennedy says.
I n an inter vie w
with Rolling Stone India,
Kennedy talks to us about the
making of Walk the Sky, the
changing band dynamics in
Alter Bridge and his favorite DAN STURGESS
memory of Slash. Excerpts:

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