Lamb of God guitarist Mark Morton has introduced a brand new solo album, With out the Ache, arriving April eleventh.
Morton additionally provided up the brand new single “Brother,” a collaboration with outlaw nation singer Cody Jinks and songwriter/nation artist Travis Denning.
The primary half of the observe is generally acoustic, Morton’s strums offering an ideal backdrop for Jinks’ distinctive twang. The music finally goes electrical because it builds to a crescendo, Morton selecting up his trusty axe to put down some ripping leads.
“On an extended bus journey, someplace in the course of a Lamb of God tour, I scribbled some lyrics down in my pocket book,” stated Morton. “Someday after, having paired them with a easy chord development, I introduced my thought to Cody Jinks and Travis Denning throughout a writing session in Nashville. Three hours later, we walked out with ‘Brother.’”
He continued: “‘Brother’ is a deeply private music that speaks on to the theme of household separation and estrangement. I’ve discovered by way of remark and my very own lived expertise that it’s a common and all too frequent phenomenon. All of us poured loads of ourselves into this music and I’m grateful to Cody for singing on it with me. I hope you’ll get pleasure from listening to it as a lot as we loved making it.”
Morton’s upcoming solo album options quite a few visitor vocalists and collabs and sees the guitarist stepping away from the intense steel of Lamb of God as he embraces a Southern rock sound — a major instance being the beforehand launched cowl of Lynyrd Skynyrd’s “The Needle and the Spoon” with Clutch’s Neil Fallon. That observe is included on With out the Ache alongside 9 originals co-penned by Morton and his collaborators, together with producer Josh Wilbur.
Stream the video for “Brother” and see the total tracklist and record of collaborators under.
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