{"id":3518,"date":"2024-03-11T14:49:22","date_gmt":"2024-03-11T01:49:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.radijohan.com\/?p=3518"},"modified":"2024-03-11T14:55:46","modified_gmt":"2024-03-11T01:55:46","slug":"3518","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.radijohan.com\/?p=3518","title":{"rendered":"Homage to Howlin&#8217; Wolf"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Guns n&#8217; Roses guitarist &#8220;Slash&#8221; will be releasing his new solo album in May. <em>Orgy of the Damned<\/em> will revitalize some blues classics and will feature diverse guest vocalists including&nbsp;Billy Gibbons,&nbsp;Chris Stapleton,&nbsp;Dorothy,&nbsp;Iggy Pop,&nbsp;Paul Rodgers,&nbsp;Demi Lovato,&nbsp;Brian Johnson,&nbsp;Tash Neal,&nbsp;Chris Robinson,&nbsp;Beth Hart and Gary Clark Jr.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The first single\u00a0is a superb cover of\u00a0Howlin&#8217; Wolf&#8217;s 1964 Chicago blues standard &#8220;Killing Floor&#8221; which features\u00a0Brian Johnson\u00a0of\u00a0AC\/DC\u00a0on vocals, and\u00a0Steven Tyler\u00a0of\u00a0Aerosmith\u00a0on harmonica. \u00a0According to Slash: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;<em>&#8216;Killing Floor&#8217;&nbsp;is one of my favorite&nbsp;Howlin&#8217; Wolf&nbsp;songs, but also one of the iconic blues riffs that turned me on as a young guitar player. I&#8217;ve always wanted to cover it in some capacity and this record was the perfect vehicle. But playing it with this band, and with&nbsp;Brian Johnson&nbsp;singing, it was an achievement I would never have imagined back then. Let alone&nbsp;Steven Tyler&nbsp;providing the harp.<\/em>&#8220;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;Killing Floor&#8221; by Slash ft. Brian Johnson is new this week on RadiJohan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Slash feat. Brian Johnson - &quot;Killing Floor&quot; (Official Music Video)\" width=\"620\" height=\"349\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QAxBEfKeOzw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guns n&#8217; Roses guitarist &#8220;Slash&#8221; will be releasing his new solo album in May. Orgy of the Damned will revitalize some blues classics and will feature diverse guest vocalists including&nbsp;Billy Gibbons,&nbsp;Chris Stapleton,&nbsp;Dorothy,&nbsp;Iggy Pop,&nbsp;Paul Rodgers,&nbsp;Demi Lovato,&nbsp;Brian Johnson,&nbsp;Tash Neal,&nbsp;Chris Robinson,&nbsp;Beth Hart and Gary Clark Jr. The first single\u00a0is a superb cover of\u00a0Howlin&#8217; Wolf&#8217;s 1964 Chicago blues standard [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[392,393,288],"class_list":["post-3518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-music","tag-brian-johnson","tag-howlin-wolf","tag-slash"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.radijohan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3518","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.radijohan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.radijohan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.radijohan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.radijohan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3518"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.radijohan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3518\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3522,"href":"http:\/\/www.radijohan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3518\/revisions\/3522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.radijohan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.radijohan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.radijohan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}