Jerry is one of my very favorite artists to work with and Brighten is the fourth album we have recorded together. Needless to say, at this point we have a really effective creative process. Jerry and I decided we could stay safe if the two of us worked in his home studio, so we set up there for tracking vocals and our co-producer, Tyler Bates, would often swing by listen and explore ideas. ![]() Then Covid-19 messed up all our plans (along with the rest of the world’s). Between the 5 th and the 8 th, we tracked the drums then from the 9 th to the 20 th main electric and acoustic guitars at my studio Dave’s Room. After several quick bouts of pre-production work, we got into the studio on March 5 of 2020. This involved a lot of time in Jerry’s home studio riff mining and teasing ideas into full songs. Alice in Chains had just wrapped up their Rainier Fog tour and Jerry got in touch and said, “I’m starting a solo record let’s work on demos”. We started working on the new album in fall of 2019. ![]() ![]() And it’s finally here! Today marks the release of Jerry Cantrell’s solo album, Brighten his first solitary effort since Degradation Trip Volumes I & II in 2002.
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