Alice Cooper will release a new album, Detroit Stories, on February 26 via earMUSIC. The first single off the album is a cover of The Velvet Underground's Loaded classic "Rock & Roll" which features Motor City legends Johnny Bee and Steve Hunter -- who played on Mitch Ryder's 1973 cover of the song -- as well as Paul Randolph and "honorary Detroiter" Joe Bonamassa. It's a big, showy, theatrical take on the song as you might expect from Cooper and you can listen to it below.
Detroit Stories is Cooper's ode to the "Golden Era" of Detroit rock and it also features other legends from the city like MC5's Wayne Kramer, Bob Seger's Motor City Horns and more. Longtime collaborator Bob Ezrin produced. "Detroit was Heavy Rock central then,” says Alice, “You’d play the Eastown and it would be Alice Cooper, Ted Nugent, the Stooges and the Who, for $4! The next weekend at the Grande it was MC5, Brownsville Station and Fleetwood Mac, or Savoy Brown or the Small Faces. You couldn’t be a soft-rock band or you’d get your ass kicked."