“Blood On The Highway”… an update…

Hi Everyone!

As you know, the Blood On The Highway CD is mixed and will be mastered next week.

Just to refresh the picture, it is not a solo CD in the strict sense of the word, but it IS a concept CD that tells the story of the life of a rock star in the 70s, from the very beginning, through all of the natural (and some of the less natural) dynamics that were involved.

The idea began when Jurgen Jakobsen, the head of Membran, read the first edition of my book and asked if we could tell this story musically. I thought about it and looked through my song book and said “yes, I think we can do that”. So I wrote three new songs and recorded them, Jurgen and Ronald David flew down to Alicante, listened to the songs and we did the deal over lunch at the beach!

I did write the songs, I did produce the CD and of course I did play Hammond, synth and a lot of guitars but I also was lucky enough to get help from Glenn Hughes, Jorn Lande, Eve Gallagher and John Lawton on lead vocals. I ended up singing lead on two songs and I am happy to be in such illustrious company!

We also used 24 strings from The Alicante Symphony on two songs and the end result is simply the best record I have ever made… EVER!

There are fantastic plans being made for the launch and support of this project and all of the “official” announcements will be made in mid-March with the media blitz to follow soon after that.

The second edition of my book will be released at the same time and both will be promoted in parallel through every media resource possible.

It is one of the most exciting times of my life and I can only say that, at this stage of my life and career, I am a very happy and thankful guy!!

Whoever said that “the best is yet to come” was dead right!!

More as soon as I have it …

God bless,
Ken
March 1st 2007