That really kinda gave me the content to write that piece.”Įrna’s been working over show details and set list ideas. It actually started making me think of who I once was, where I came from and what I am now and the journey it took to get from there to here. On the inspiration for Hometown Life, “So on this one, what else is epic in my life and I started reflecting on where I came from and I drove by the old broken down house where I grew up. “Seven years, that’s a nice title for a long epic song, so it worked out.” “On the first record Avalon I had a song called 7 Years that was this big epic piece of music and I said ‘why the fuck do I want to write a song about it, it’s too long, it’s crazy’.” Erna visited a personal situation for the lyrics. The guys that I use in the solo band totally remembered it as a cool piece.” We worked on it and completed it musically. It was pretty much all put together and then I was kinda scrolling through my voice notes and ideas I’ve stored away in my folder that I keep and I came across this.
I also had some scrapped leftovers from Avalon I was working on. Some things were newer and I had time to work on a solo album. Over time I take bits and pieces of melodies and music and at one point I’d do another solo record but it’s one of those things, when it’s ready, it’s ready. On the song Hometown Life “It was actually the last song written on this record. It’s a balance of what I need to be for me, Sully Erna and for Godsmack.” I love a lot of different styles of music. It came out more aggressive and that’s the kind of music I wanted to be involved in. “A lot of stuff written for Godsmack was written when I was younger, angrier and didn’t understand the world. I love playing all music.” Erna was raised on jazz, blues and other genres, not rock. “When I do something like this it’s the way that I see it, it just takes that music further down the rabbit hole. On Godsmack material compared to solo work, “We’ve had the Voodoo’s and the Serenity’s and those kinds of songs,” Erna says. Central and West Coast dates will follow in 2017 with a trip to Europe. 26 in Atlantic, GA hitting the east coast on 18 stops, before finishing in his hometown of Boston. The first leg of the Hometown Tour starts Oct. The first single, Different Kind of Tears is an acoustic, country influenced tune about inner feelings not seen or shown to the public. Erna lyrically going back, retracing life steps to his hometown, childhood haunts and early musical beginnings in a rallying call to his roots. Hometown Life is another departure from both Avalon and Godsmack. Erna led listeners on a journey of stripped down music, heavy in lyrical prominence, emotion and personal storytelling.įrom the opening unplugged jangling strings, bongos and tribal movement of the title track to the hope searching downtrodden piano keys of Broken Road that reached out like decrepit memories still touching the heart signaled Avalon was an entrance into another musical world of Erna’s creation, ending with the shaman’s dancing shadow on Cast Out (Spirit Ceremony). A long-term project infused with Native American influence, Middle Eastern vocals and prominent acoustic presence. A record filled with multiple influences and a rapid departure from anything associated with the front man at the time. In 2010 Erna released his first solo effort Avalon.
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