Defiance Part 1

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Hunter has encountered much of rock’s great and good during his career and the new album features an extensive list of contacts from Hunter’s seriously big little black book. Todd Rundgren assists on the sing-along mid-tempo pop-leaning “Don’t Tread on Me,” one of the set’s most instantly engaging choruses.

With his mind still agile, his piano playing still on top form and his voice still strong, Defiance Part 1 makes a nonsense of that. Which explains why Slash and Metallica’s Rob Trujillo are on the title cut, but not why it’s so good. He's 83, but save for the grizzled husk in his voice, Hunter tears into these 11 songs like someone less than half his age. Songs like “I Hate Hate” and the album’s rebellious title track – the latter showcasing the one and only Slash on guitar with Metallica’s Robert Trujillo carrying the groove using the late Jaco Pastorius’ signature fretless bass, the same instrument played by the legendary jazz musician on Hunter’s groundbreaking second solo album, 1975’s ALL AMERICAN ALIEN BOY – offer indisputable evidence that Hunter’s voice remains as uncompromising and provocative as ever before.No Hard Feelings” with Johnny Depp and the late Jeff Beck, is beautiful, while most of Stone Temple Pilots give the brilliantly acerbic “Pavlovs Dog” a stomping rock n roll flavour.

Before that he spent 10 years as a freelance music journalist, interviewing artists for the likes of Total Guitar, Guitarist, Guitar World, MusicRadar, NME.Nobody but Hunter has the power, at this point in their career, to sound so fresh, so new and so exciting. More from the press release: Now in its seventh decade, Hunter’s illustrious career has long been marked by collaboration, from the golden age of Mott the Hoople to his fabled partnership with Mick Ronson and 21st century renaissance with his crack backing combo, the Rant Band.