By Syndicated Content
Stray Cats
bassist
Lee Rocker
will release
Gather Round,
his first new solo album of original songs in over 13 years,
on January 22
.
The 10-track collection, which you can
pre-order now
, is made up mostly of songs that Rocker wrote this year after the start of the pandemic, and also includes his 2019 single "
Dog House Shuffle
," a tribute to some of rock 'n' roll's early bass players.
Lee explains that much of
Gather Round
was written while he and his wife "criss-crossed" the U.S. in their Airstream trailer. after the pandemic started.
"We rolled through 20 states from north to south and from east to west," he notes. "In addition to the pandemic, the presidential election was raging. I wrote songs and music and drove 6,000 miles."