Vocalist Glenn Hughes (BLACK COUNTRY COMMUNION, ex-DEEP PURPLE) recently spoke with Norway's Metal Express Radio. An excerpt from the interview is available below.

Q: It’s certainly been a busy time for you recently as on September 20th your new album from Black Country Communion is released. This is quite possibly the most eagerly anticipated album in recent years. You must be excited now that it’s coming out?

Hughes: "What people need to really know is that this is a rock album. This is YOUR album. We made this album for you guys. It’s a rock`n`roll album for rock fans. Although I live in America, this is a very British sounding album and we will be coming over to the UK to play and the dates will be announced really soon and you can bet that Newcastle will be included amongst those shows. I am so excited that the album is finally coming out."

Q: Black Country Communion features four highly respected musicians. How did you end up working together?

Hughes: "Joe Bonamassa and I became really good friends about four years ago. He was a fan of my music but I didn’t know too much about Joe. I started to hang out with Joe and we started to write some songs and Joe started to become more and more popular. I think Joe was secretively plotting something and we ended up putting the band together towards the end of last year. It’s now almost a year later and the album is almost out and a lot of hard work has gone into creating it. All that hard work is paying off and we’re all so proud of this album."

Q: It’s been a long time since you’ve been in a band set up. Was it strange for you working as a band rather than a solo artist?

Hughes: "Let’s be clear, it is difficult because you have four very strong minded guys and I am the elder statesman and I’ve written most of the material but I write with Joe, Jason and Derek in mind. When I take a song into the studio, that song gets kicked around by each member but when I have my own band that doesn’t happen as I have a very definitive idea of what the song should be. So when you have four strong guys in a band and a big Svengali type of producer in Kevin Shirley, who has produced ZEPPELIN, AEROMSITH, MAIDEN and THE BLACK CROWES, then you know you have five guys in there kicking and screaming and it’s great."

Go to this location for the complete interview.

Black Country Communion tracklisting:

'Black Country'

'One Last Soul'

'The Great Divide'

'Down Again'

'Beggarman'

'Song Of Yesterday'

'No Time'

'Medusa'

'The Revolution In Me'

'Stand (At The Burning Tree)'

'Sista Jane'

'Too Late For The Sun'