![News Added Jul 14, 2016 "Country music is the new rock & roll," proclaims Steven Tyler in a press release for his new, and first, solo album, the inclusively titled We're All Somebody From Somewhere. That may come as a surprise to those of us who thought country music preceded and informed rock. But let's […]](https://hasitleaked.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/steven-tyler-were-all-somebody-from-somewhere-cover-art-320x320.jpg "Steven Tyler : We’re All Somebody From Somewhere")
"Country music is the new rock & roll," proclaims Steven Tyler in a press release for his new, and first, solo album, the inclusively titled We're All Somebody From Somewhere.
That may come as a surprise to those of us who thought country music preceded and informed rock. But let's not quibble: Tyler is hardly the first arena rock star to embrace roots music to convey a certain rugged authenticity. A country makeover saved Darius Rocker from becoming the Huey Lewis of his generation, and who could forget Jon "I'm a cowboy" Bon Jovi and his band's Lost Highway?
We're All Somebody, out July 15, doesn't present a radical departure any more than those project did, though there are some stretch marks. Co-produced by Tyler with an impeccably credentialed team of country and rock vets — T-Bone Burnett, Dann Huff, Marti Frederiksen, Jaren Johnston of the Cadillac Three — the album can nonetheless prove surprisingly flavorless, as Aerosmith's famously flamboyant frontman seems to strive for an earthier earnestness that isn't a natural fit
