Album Guide
Detroit Stories (2021)
Track listing: Rock 'n' Roll / Go Man Go / Our Love Will Change The World / Social Debris / $1000 High Heel Shoes / Hail Mary / Detroit City 2021 / Drunk and In Love / Independence Dave / I Hate You / Wonderful World / Sister Anne / Hanging On By A Thread (Don’t Give Up) / Shut Up And Rock / East Side Story
ALICE COOPER: vocals; backing vocals ("Rock & Roll", "Detroit City 2021"); harp ("Drunk and In Love", "Sister Anne")
JOHNNY "BEE" BADANJEK: drums (all except "Social Debris", "I Hate You", "Shut Up and Rock); backing vocals ("Rock & Roll")
GARRET BIELANIEC: guitar (all except "Social Debris", "I Hate You")
JOE BONAMASSA: guitar ("Rock & Roll", "Drunk and In Love")
MICHAEL BRUCE: guitar ("Social Debris"); guitar, vocals ("I Hate You")
CARLA CAMARILLO: backing vocals ("$1000 High Heel Shoes", "Independence Dave")
SHERYL & CALICO COOPER: backing vocals ("Rock & Roll", "Our Love Will Change The World", "East Side Story")
STEVE CRAYN: lead guitar ("Social Debris")
TOMMY DENANDER: guitar, keyboards ("Wonderful World"); keyboards ("Hanging On By A Thread"); guitar ("Shut Up and Rock")
DENNIS DUNAWAY: bass ("Social Debris"); bass, guitar, vocals ("I Hate You")
BOB EZRIN: organ, backing vocals, cowbell ("Rock & Roll"); percussion, backing vocals ("Go Man Go", "Hail Mary"); piano, backing vocals ("Our Love Will Change The World" ); backing vocals ("Detroit City 2021", "Shut Up and Rock"); backing vocals, programming ("Wonderful World"); keyboards, programming, backing vocals ("Hanging On By A Thread"); organ, backing vocals ("East Side Story")
MARK FARNER guitar ("Go Man Go", "Hail Mary", "Detroit City 2021"); guitar, backing vocals ("Sister Anne")
TOMMY HENRIKSEN: guitar (all except "Rock & Roll", "$1000 High Heel Shoes", "Sister Anne"); backing vocals ("Go Man Go", "Hail Mary", "Detroit City 2021", "Independence Dave", "Shut Up and Rock"); percussion, backing vocals ("Our Love Will Change The World", "Social Debris", "East Side Story"), percussion, backing vocals, programming ("Wonderful World"); programming, backing vocals ("Hanging On By A Thread")
STEVE HUNTER: guitar ("Rock & Roll"); lead guitar ("Hanging On By A Thread")
KEITH KAMINSKI: saxophones ("$1000 High Heel Shoes")
WAYNE KRAMER: guitar (all except "Rock & Roll", "Social Debris", "I Hate You", "Shut Up And Rock"); backing vocals ("Rock & Roll", "Sister Anne");
LARRY MULLENS JR.: drums ("Shut Up and Rock")
PAUL RANDOLPH: bass (all except "Social Debris", "I Hate You", "Shut Up and Rock"); backing vocals ("Rock & Roll", "Sister Anne")
JOHN RUTHERFORD: trombone ("$1000 High Heel Shoes")
JAMES SHELTON: organ ("Rock & Roll", "$1000 High Heel Shoes")
SISTER SLEDGE: (Debra Sledge, Camille Sledge, Tanya Thillet): backing vocals ("$1000 High Heel Shoes")
JIMMY LEE SLOAS: bass ("Shut Up and Rock")
MATTHEW SMITH: guitar ("Hanging On By A Thread")
NEAL SMITH: drums ("Social Debris"); drums, vocals ("I Hate You")
RICK TEDESCO: guitar ("Social Debris", "I Hate You")
WALTER WHITE: trumpet ("$1000 High Heel Shoes")
Recorded at Rust Belt Studios, Royal Oak, Michigan. Additional recording at Saltmine Studios, Mesa, Arizona; Solid Rock Studio, Phoenix, Arizona; Anarchy Studios, Nashville, Tennessee, Nassau Bahamas & Zurich Switzerland; Loud Mouse Studios, Toronto, Canada; Twangmeister Studio, North, East Lincolnshire, UK.
Produced by Bob Ezrin. Additional production: Paul Randolph ("$1000 High Heel Shoes"), Tommy Henriksen and Tommy Denander ("Wonderful World").
Detroit Stories (2021)
PRESS RELEASE:
Named for the city that launched the original Alice Cooper group on the road to success, "Detroit Stories" follows last year’s "Breadcrumbs" EP as a modern-day homage to the toughest and craziest Rock n Roll scene there ever was.
In 1970, fledgling producer Bob Ezrin walked into a farmhouse on the outskirts of Detroit to work with the Alice Cooper band. Abandoning flower power Los Angeles, because they were the opposite of the hippie peace and love ideal, Alice had brought his decidedly darker gang back to his birthplace to the legendary rock scene that gave birth to hard rock, garage rock, soul, funk, punk...and more.
"Detroit Stories" will be available on CD, CD+DVD Digipak, CD Box Set (including CD, Blu-ray, T-shirt, face mask, torch light and 3 stickers), and 2LP Gatefold on earMUSIC.
The DVD and Blu-ray will show the incredible live performance "A Paranormal Evening At The Olympia Paris" for the first time on video.
"Detroit was Heavy Rock central then," explains Alice, "You’d play the Eastown and it would be Alice Cooper, Ted Nugent, the Stooges and the Who, for $4! The next weekend at the Grande it was MC5, Brownsville Station and Fleetwood Mac, or Savoy Brown or the Small Faces. You couldn’t be a soft-rock band or you’d get your ass kicked."
"Los Angeles had its sound with The Doors, Love and Buffalo Springfield," he says, "San Francisco had the Grateful Dead and Jefferson Airplane. New York had The Rascals and The Velvet Underground. But Detroit was the birthplace of angry hard rock. After not fitting in anywhere in the US (musically or image wise) Detroit was the only place that recognized the Alice Cooper guitar driven, hard rock sound and our crazy stage show. Detroit was a haven for the outcasts. And when they found out I was born in East Detroit... we were home."
Promotional Materials
Detroit Stories USA Advert (2021)
Detroit Stories USA Advert (2021)