HEART - ANN WILSON Shares Music Video For Her Cover Of "Rooster" By ALICE IN CHAINS
January 16, 2022, 2 years ago
Heart vocalist Ann Wilson has issued a music video for her cover version of "Rooster" by Alice In Chains, which can be seen below.
Wilson performed "Rooster" when Alice In Chains was presented with the Museum Of Pop Culture Founders Award in December 2020.
As Ann said to The Seattle Times in December 2020 of her Alice In Chains cover, “I wanted to remain true to the song as much as possible, but I wanted to make it my own. But really, honoring the original spirit of the song, which is cockroaches and flies and all this kind of stuff [laughs]. Before I knew what form the MoPOP thing was gonna take with the live performances, I made a video for 'Rooster' that was really dark. They decided not to use it because they wanted it to be a bunch of live performances. But sometime I’ll put that video out because it’s really cool. It’s just maggots and war stuff and darkness and insanity.”
"Rooster" initially appeared on Alice In Chains' second album, Dirt, released in 1992. The song was written by guitarist / vocalist Jerry Cantrell for his father, Jerry Cantrell Sr., whose childhood nickname was "Rooster" and served with the U.S. Army during the Vietnam War. The original video for "Rooster", as well as an acoustic version from MTV Unplugged, can be enjoyed below.
