Richie Kotzen is the featured guest on Episode #251 of the Iron City Rocks Podcast.

 

 

"Richie has been one of the premier guitarists in rock for more than two decades. He has played with bands such as Mr. Big and Poison and currently is the guitarist and singer for the Winery Dogs. Richie recently released The Essential Richie Kotzen and he was kind enough to sit down with us to talk about many facets of his career including the surprise success of the Winery Dogs, putting together this career spanning double album, his love of the Telecaster, and his growth as a not only a guitarist but as a singer."

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Early next year Richie Kotzen will release his 20th solo album, titled Cannibals. He recently issued a video for one of the songs from that record, a beautiful ballad known as "You", which can be seen below.

Speaking exclusively to BraveWords scribe Aaron Small, Kotzen discusses this tender tune. "It’s not the lead track per say, but it’s a song that I wrote with my daughter which is a really cool piece. She wrote the music to this song when she was roughly 14 or 15. She would sit at the piano and just play this piece. I as ked her, what is that you’re always playing? She said, ‘I don’t know, it’s something I wrote.’ So I set up the mics and recorded it ‘cause I really liked it. It lived on my hard drive for a few years. When I make a new record, I always go back and look at my old ideas. I discovered this and decided to write some lyrics for it. I’m excited that it came together and it’s going to be on the record; I think it’s a really cool recording."

Catch Richie Kotzen live Stateside next month:

November     

5 - B.B. King Blues Club and Grill - New York, NY  
7 - The Chance - Poughkeepsie, NY  
8 - Building 24 - Live Reading, PA  
9 - Toads Place - New Haven, CT  
11 - Alter Bar - Pittsburgh, PA  
12 - Summit City - Whitesburg, KY  
13 - Arcada Theater - Chicago, IL    
15 - Medina Entertainment Center - Medina, MN  
18 - Toad Tavern - Littleton, CO  
20 - V'Ampd - Las Vegas, NV    
21 - Ramona Mainstage - Ramona, CA    
22 - Coach House - San Juan Capistrano, CA  
23 - Canyon Club - Agoura Hills, CA  
25 - Rock Bar - San Jose, CA  
26 - The Addition  - (formerly Yoshi's) San Francisco, CA