The Way It Is (Glenn Hughes album)
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| Studio album by Glenn Hughes | ||||
| Released | March 1999 | |||
| Genre | Hard rock, funk | |||
| Length | 60:45 | |||
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SPV (Europe) Nippon Crown (Japan) Shrapnel (US) |
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| Producer |
Glenn Hughes Michael Scott |
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The Way It Is is a studio album by former Deep Purple, Black Sabbath and Trapeze vocalist/ bassist Glenn Hughes. It was released in 1999 on Nippon Crown, SPV and Shrapnel Records records and was Hughes’ sixth solo studio album.
While Hughes’ previous album, 1996’s Addiction, had a serious, quite dramatic and heavy sound with songs that focused on the turmoil in his life, its follow-up, The Way It Is, has a distinctly lighter tone. The metal edge of Addiction was replaced with funk-infused one. However, unlike 1995’s Feel, which had definite funk, pop and soul sounds, The Way It Is keeps the hard rock Hughes is best known for.
This was Hughes’ second album to feature long-time guitarist Jocke ‘JJ’ Marsh; the two of them worked closely on the album, locking themselves away in Hughes’ Los Angeles home in November 1998. The album also features two songs co-written with funk guitarist Stevie Salas and performed by Hughes, Salas and former Guns N' Roses, now Velvet Revolver drummer Matt Sorum. The three of them had originally planned to put an album together, but this did not appear. "You Kill Me" and "Second Son" are the only tracks by the three of them to be released.
Other musicians on the album include guitarist-keyboardist Marc Bonilla, who worked closely with Hughes on Addiction, but has a lesser role on this album. Keith Emerson provides organ parts on two songs and Hughes’ usual drummer of the period, Gary Ferguson, performs on all the non-Salas/Sorum numbers.
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