NIGHT RANGER frontman Jack Blades is featured in a new interview with Jeb Wright at Classic Rock Revisited. An excerpt is available below:

Jeb: Talk about Frontiers Records.

Jack: "Things couldn’t be better with them; I love those guys. I’ve got a wonderful relationship between them and myself. The owner of the label, Serafino Perugino, is such a music fan that I love being around him. He flew to Paris to meet me when I was playing there years ago. We became friends. He lets me do my thing and I listen to him when he has suggestions because he has very good suggestions. He and I have an unwritten thing where he trusts me with the music and I trust him with the label stuff."

Jeb: Did you even have to play him a note of music for him to want to release your solo album?

Jack: "There were no demos sent back and forth. We really have built up a measure of trust over the last nine or ten years. He trusts me to give my highest level of output with whatever I do; whether it is a Jack Blades record, a Night Ranger record, or if I am producing someone else. He knows that every ounce of being in my heart and soul will go to that project. I think he appreciates that."

Jeb: They are really doing well and they are making a presence with their American side of their business but it is still a tough sell in the USA.

Jack: "At this stage of the game, we are making records for our fans. Radio is not even an outlet anymore, as classic rock stations refuse to play anything new. I think it is the nature of what the music business has become. Instead of saying it is such a drag, we are just going to keep playing and having an output of new music. I think it is important for artists to keep creating because when you stop creating then you start dying inside. As long as I keep creating, then my soul is fine. When I stop creating is when I will start to die inside. I feel that I must be creative and that is why I keep doing Night Ranger records, my solo records, SHAW/BLADESrecords and other people’s records."

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Blades released his new solo album, Rock N' Roll Ride, on March 23rd in Europe and March 27th in North America via Frontiers Records. The new album marks Blades’ second solo release for the label. Hot off the heels of NIGHT RANGER’s celebrated 2011 CD, Somewhere In California, and a massive North American tour with Night Ranger as support for JOURNEY and FOREIGNER last year, Blades shows no signs of slowing down with his buoyant new album.

Of the new album, Blades recently commented, “Rock N' Roll Ride is an extension of what my music has been for the last 30 years. It has been quite a rock n’ roll ride and I decided to lay it all down on a record!”

Rock N' Roll Ride features contributions from Blades’ Night Ranger bandmates Brad Gillis, Kelly Keagy, Joel Hoekstra and Eric Levy, as well as a special guest appearance by CHEAP TRICK’s Robin Zander. The first single from the album, 'Back In The Game', will soon impact at radio.

Jack Blades is a frontman, lead singer, bassist, songwriter, and producer as well as a founding member of the highly-successful arena rock band, Night Ranger and supergroup DAMN YANKEES (along with TED NUGENT and Tommy Shaw from STYX) and the highly-regarded SHAW/BLADES. Throughout his remarkable career Blades has sold over 25 million albums, performed in front of millions of fans worldwide and collaborated with some of rock's most legendary artists. With a career spanning three decades, Blades has recorded with, penned songs and produced albums for some of the music industry's biggest names including AEROSMITH, ALICE COOPER, ROGER DALTREY, OZZY OSBOURNE, MÖTLEY CRÜE and VINCE NEIL.

His music has been featured in movies such as Armageddon, Boogie Nights, Tommy Boy, television shows such as South Park and American Dad, the hit Broadway musical (and soon-to-be released major motion picture) Rock Of Ages and the wildly successful videogame series Rock Band and Guitar Hero.

With Blades’ songwriting, driving guitars, stage antics and on the strength of Night Ranger's songs 'Don’t Tell Me You Love Me', 'Rock in America', 'Sister Christian', 'When You Close Your Eyes', and 'Sentimental Street', along with the Damn Yankees hits 'High Enough' and 'Coming of Age', Blades' legacy continues to inspire generations while still being written.

Rock 'n’ Roll Ride trackisting:

'Back In The Game'

'Rock N’ Roll Ride'

'Hardest Word To Say'

'Anything For You'

'Love Life'

'West Hollywood'

'Born For This'

'Don’t Give Up'

'Say You Will'

'Rise And Shine'

'Hey Now'