Rick Springfield Drops The Snake King

Rick Springfield has released a new blues album, The Snake King. Springfield describes the set as “basically a theme record, I guess, the first theme record I’ve ever done, based on a character named The Snake King. Sometimes that character is a devil, sometimes it’s God, sometimes it’s me, sometimes it’s just the news.”More »

By mcarthurtiptoptux@comcast.net on January 28, 2018

Rick Springfield has released a new blues album, The Snake King. Springfield describes the set as “basically a theme record, I guess, the first theme record I’ve ever done, based on a character named The Snake King. Sometimes that character is a devil, sometimes it’s God, sometimes it’s me, sometimes it’s just the news.” “I thought blues lent itself more to the God/devil/sex thing than pop did,” Springfield tells Billboard. “I’m kind of a news junky; I read a lot and we talk about stuff on the road. There’s a lot of stuff going on, everywhere. I see evil everywhere, but where’s God?” “It’s something I’ve been thinking about for a long time,” he adds, “and I wrote actually over a weekend, got the basic form for a lot of the songs and what they’d be about. It happened pretty quick and then I just fiddled with them over the months after that. But it came pretty fast.” The Snake King is Springfield’s first full length release since 2016’s Rocket Sceince. The Snake King track list: 1. “In The Land Of The Blind” 2. “The Devil That You Know” 3. “Little Demon” 4. “Judas Tree” 5. “Jesus Was An Atheist” 6. “The Snake King” 7. “God Don’t Care” 8. “The Voodoo House” 9. “Suicide Manifesto” 10. “Blues For The Disillusioned” 11. “Santa Is An Anagram” 12. “Orpheus In The Underworld” Copyright(c) 2018 RTTNews.com. All Rights ReservedLess «