Legendary Rock Interviews' John Parks has issued a new interview with TESLA guitarist FRANK HANNON. An excerpt follows:

Q: Everyone is digging your latest album Frank. Six String Soldiers is your third solo effort right?

A: "This is my third solo effort, yeah. My first was called Guitars From Mars, my second was more of an acoustic, introspective, storytelling kind of album where I did all the vocals, instruments and lyrics myself. That was Gypsy Highway which was a total self produced album. This latest album, Six String Soldiers is a collaboration with some guys that I met from Albuquerque, New Mexico who had never made an album before, Mike Araiza who is our other guitarist and Jeff Sandoval our singer. I met Mike through a guitar battle that I judged down in Albuquerque. He won the guitar battle and was really great and sat in with Tesla at a show we were doing there. We hit it off and started writing and recording these songs. So, again, it’s something different. I’m kind of an artist who’s always trying to do new things, I don’t like to repeat myself. I like to explore different styles and different influences so each one of my records is different. This one’s much more hard rock. Gypsy Highway had banjos and dobro slide and was real personal lyrically where Six String Soldiers is really built around rock riffs and drums and my singer Jeff Sandoval’s voice, he has a really strong, rock and roll kind of voice."

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Hannon recently released a new video, for the Six String Soldiers album track, 'Set Me Free', featuring a live performance recorded in Albuquerque, MN. Watch the clip below:

Six-String Soldiers is available now digitally via iTunes, or on CD via FrankHannon.com.

Frank Hannon, Mike Araiza and Jeff Sandoval have created what is quickly being regarded as one of the most impressive unabashed tributes to the importance of the guitar in rock n' roll music in generations. Six-String Soldiers is a full-length disc of 12 solidly written songs backed by the musicianship of legendary guitarists DICKEY BETTS, 3-time Grammy Award winner RICK DERRINGER, PAT TRAVERS and Y&T; founder DAVE MENIKETTI.

Six-String Soldiers tracklisting:

'I’m Alive' (feat. Pat Travers)

'Set Me Free'

'Six String Soldiers'

'Lipstick, Smoke And Gasoline' (feat. Dave Meniketti)

'Invincible'

'Cross Your Mind'

'Touch The Ground' (feat. Dickey Betts)

'I’m Just Sayin’'

'Love, Life And Beauty'

'To The Light' (feat. Rick Derringer)

'Redemption'

'12.2'

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