From Joe's Biography Page at Sony...
Sony Music
March 28, 2005
...The album's 13 tracks include 11 new Joe Perry original compositions as well as covers of the Doors' "The Crystal Ship" and Woody Guthrie's "Vigilante Man."
"I'm a Doors fan," says Joe regarding the decision to revisit Mister Mojo Risin's dark amphetamine musings. "I can remember cruising in my car somewhere and listening to this. I started singing along with the song and I thought this would be an awesome one to cover. It's in that range of vocalizing that I like."
The inspiration behind Joe's Woody Guthrie cover comes from both musical and political sources. As a fan of Ry Cooder, Joe was drawn to Cooder's arrangement of the song on his 1971 masterpiece, Into The Purple Valley. "I'm a slide player," says Joe, "and Ry is the slide player's slide player." And the deep lyrical content of "Vigilante Man" hit Joe with its contemporary urgency. "This particular song struck me as being really appropriate for the times we're in now," Joe continues. "I put it on the record as a metaphor for what' going on in the world today, taking in everybody from the 'Saddam Husseins' to some of the things that America does, to the cop that walks down the street and thinks he's the be-all and end-all. There's the old saying that power corrupts and absolute power destroys. And that's what happens when people violently tend to take the law into their own hands....."
March 28, 2005
...The album's 13 tracks include 11 new Joe Perry original compositions as well as covers of the Doors' "The Crystal Ship" and Woody Guthrie's "Vigilante Man."
"I'm a Doors fan," says Joe regarding the decision to revisit Mister Mojo Risin's dark amphetamine musings. "I can remember cruising in my car somewhere and listening to this. I started singing along with the song and I thought this would be an awesome one to cover. It's in that range of vocalizing that I like."
The inspiration behind Joe's Woody Guthrie cover comes from both musical and political sources. As a fan of Ry Cooder, Joe was drawn to Cooder's arrangement of the song on his 1971 masterpiece, Into The Purple Valley. "I'm a slide player," says Joe, "and Ry is the slide player's slide player." And the deep lyrical content of "Vigilante Man" hit Joe with its contemporary urgency. "This particular song struck me as being really appropriate for the times we're in now," Joe continues. "I put it on the record as a metaphor for what' going on in the world today, taking in everybody from the 'Saddam Husseins' to some of the things that America does, to the cop that walks down the street and thinks he's the be-all and end-all. There's the old saying that power corrupts and absolute power destroys. And that's what happens when people violently tend to take the law into their own hands....."
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