Adrian Smith And Richie Kotzen Release New Single ‘Scars’

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Iron Maiden’s Adrian Smith and Winery Dogs’ Richie Kotzen, have released the second single from their upcoming collaboration Smith/Kotzen.

The new bluesy new single follows the release of ‘Taking My Chances’ and offers another taster of the duos forthcoming release, which is set to release on March 26th via BMG.

“I remember Scars being one of the songs we wrote in the very beginning of the process,” Kotzen said about the track. “There is something moody and mysterious going on in this track that I find quite engaging. This would be a great track for us to stretch out live for some guitar improvisation between the two of us.”

Check out the new track here:

Talking about the pair’s collaboration earlier in the year, Adrian Smith said “Richie and I started working together a couple of years ago. We’d been jamming as we’d been friends for a few years before that. We both share a love for classic rock and bluesy rock so we decided to get together and start writing some songs and it went from there.”

“Pretty much everything on the album is handled between Richie and myself including the production. We had developed a really strong idea of how we wanted it to sound and I’m very pleased with how it turned out. There’s a lot of cool songs on there that we are really happy with.”

The duo produced ‘Smith/Kotzen’ on the Turks and Caicos Islands in February last year, with Kevin ​‘Caveman’ Shirley mixing the whole thing. Check out the album opener, ‘Taking My Chances’, below:

You can pre-order the new album here, and Here’s the full Smith/Kotzen tracklisting:

1. Taking My Chances
2. Running
3. Scars
4. Some People
5. Glory Road
6. Solar Fire
7. You Don’t Know Me
8. I Wanna Stay
9. ​‘Til Tomorrow

Adrian Smith is set to go on tour later this year, you can catch the band at the following dates:

June
5 Basel, Switzerland – Jakobshalle
7 Zagreb, Croatia – Zagreb Arena
9 Budapest, Hungary – Groupama Arena
11 Warsaw, Poland – Narodowy
13 Bremen, Germany – Bürgerweide
15 Prague, Czech Republic – Sinobo Stadium
16 Wiener Neustadt, Austria – Stadium Open Air
19 Barcelona, Spain – Olympic Stadium
21 Lisbon, Portugal – Estadio Nacional
24 Bologna, Italy – Sonic Park
26 Stuttgart, Germany – Mercedes-Benz Arena
27 Antwerp, Belgium – Antwerps Sportpaleis
30 Berlin, Germany – Waldbühne
July
3 Gothenburg, Sweden – Ullevi Stadium
6 Frankfurt, Germany – Deutsche Bank Park
8 Cologne, Germany – RheinEnergieStadion
10 Arnhem, Holland – GelreDome
11 Paris, France – La Defense Arena