Sammy Hagar is going to have an appearance on The Simpsons on Fox, Sunday, November 23rd at 8/7 CT. He will guest star in the upcoming season 26 episode "Covercraft".

This is the first time that Sammy will be providing his voice to his character on The Simpsons, but not the first time his likeness as a character has been featured on the show. Back in 2000 (Simpsons Season 11) Sammy was seen in the crowd at a pseudo-VH1 award show next to Wille Nelson. 

In other Red Rocker news, Brewing Up Lite Roast is a three-part series of videos showing behind the scenes of  Hagar's new acoustic album, Lite Roast. Step One - Grind, can be seen below.

It starts with the trip to Sammy's neighborhood coffee shop that inspired the album’s title. “There’s a big coffee roaster here in Marin County called Equator,” explains Hagar at the start of the clip. “They’re dear friends, and I always go get fresh coffee there. I stopped on the way to rehearsal one day and I got some to bring over there, so me and [guitarist Vic Johnson] were drinking coffee — we don’t drink rum when we’re working, except onstage.”

Looking at the inventory, Sammy made a sudden connection: “I saw these big bags of beans and I thought, Wow, call this thing Lite Roast. It just came — it was just one of them crazy things. I think Lite Roast really says it, because it’s the same beans, we just roast ‘em lighter this time.”

The rest of the video delves in to Sammy’s thought process behind the Lite Roast project, including his memories of the all-star acoustic show that inspired him to take an unplugged trip back through his catalog.  

To read BraveWords scribe Aaron Small's review of Lite Roast, click here.