Nugent Names New Album
Ted says new album will be with us early next year
Ted Nugent has named his new album, which is due for release early in 2011.
In an interview with Billboard.com Nuge revealed a few details about his forthcoming record, which will be his first studio record since 2007’s Love Grenade.
The album will be entitled Trample the Weak, Hurdle the Dead, which is also the name of his current North American tour. Nugent describes the title track of the album as "just a roustabout, a classic Motor City upheaval. You can hear my Mitch Ryder influences in there right away."
Other songs likely to make the cut on the album include "I Love My Barbecue" and "I Still Believe," which he likens to 1975's "Motor City Madhouse." And he compares "Never Stop Dreaming" to the Rascal's "I Ain't Gonna Eat Out My Heart Anymore" and says it was inspired by his hunting trips with terminally ill youth.
"When you spend time around a campfire with these families and little five-, six-, seven-year-old boys and girls...it's so inspiring and so fortifying and so clear," Nugent explains. "'Never Stop Dreaming' is as pure as the 'Fred Bear' moment, just a magic piece of music."
Nugent plans to wrap his current tour on 5 September, after which he will spend some time hunting bear and moose in Canada and deer in Wisconsin before holing up in the studio in December with his band - bassist Greg Smith and drummer Mick Brown - at producer David Zaijcek's studio in Texas to work on the dozen songs that he already has written for the album.