Mike Bax at Canada's Lithium Magazine recently caught up with Lee Aaron to discuss her new album, Fire And Gasoline. An excerpt from the interview is available below.

Mike: I know some of the subject matter is a little introspective, but overall the vibe is that of a really fun album. I like all of the different genres of music that it touches on. It’s cool that way.

Lee: "Thanks. What I hope fans will hear on this album is that it’s a straight ahead rock record. I recorded it with the same guys that play on stage with me. My voice is consistent throughout the whole thing. But I think that you can hear tinges of influences from different eras that make their way onto this record along with all of the things that had influenced me over the course of my career. I have to say that my favourite albums when I was growing up were albums that took you on a musical journey. Not just the cookie cutter hard rock stuff. I’ve talked about this in a couple of interviews. For instance, Fleetwood Mac, you’ve got a few different writers in that band. On one album you’ve got Christine McVie singing the tender piano ballad. You’ve got ‘The Chain’, which is kind of a hardcore blues rock. And then you’ve got ‘Secondhand News’ which is almost a bluegrass song. It sounds like the same band because it is the same band and that is the continuity. But each song has its own entity, its own life. There is something to love about each one of them. I love albums like that. A lot of Elton John albums were like that for me. I wanted to make a record that was more like that."

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The new video below features behind-the-scenes footage of Lee Aaron and her band during pre-production and laying down tracks in the studio for the new album, Fire And Gasoline. The clip includes interviews with Sean Kelly, Dave Reimer and John Cody, as well as Lee's take on the writing and recording process and more.

BraveWords scribe Carl Begai recently spoke with Lee, who released Fire And Gasoline on March 25th. Following is an excerpt from the interview that does not appear in the feature story.

"Sometimes I think it's a miracle I haven't lost my voice after all these years in rock n' roll and having bad monitors," says Lee. "I finally caved about a month ago and bought myself a set of in-ear monitors. I used them for the first time on a weekend away in Saskatoon and Regina, and it was like 'Where have you been all my life?' (laughs). It's so nice because with music that has powerful guitars, a lot of the time I wasn't hearing the nuances in my vocalizations. No with the in-ears it's like 'Man, this is amazing...' The funny thing is I always stay after the show to sign autographs or take pictures with the fans - meeting the fans is one of my favourite parts of performing - and at those two shows I received extra comments on how good the vocals sounded. I'm so glad I took the plunge."

"There's no guessing. When you're in a rock band the guitar player starts turning up a little bit two thirds into the set, the drummer plays louder, the bassist turns up, the whole sound system gets turned up, and before you know it your ears are shutting down. There have been some nights where I've been guessing and really hoping I'm actually hitting the notes, so the in-ears are a nice thing to have."

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About the album she says: "Fire And Gasoline is a rock n' roll record, and I think it would have been a huge mistake to make an album that sounds like something I did before."

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