Alice Cooper to Pay Tribute to Detroit on Upcoming EP

It has been reported that Alice Cooper’s latest studio album, Breadcrumbs, is slated for a September 13th release. The six-song project is drawn from sessions with producer Bob Ezrin.

Cooper started recording the songs, which pay homage to the Rock and Roll Hall of Famer’s Motor City hometown, in Detroit during March and continued in Los Angeles.

The EP will be released digitally and on limited 10-inch vinyl and features appearances by Kramer, Detroit Wheels and Rockets drummer Johnny “Bee” Badanjek, former Grand Funk Railroad frontman Mark Farner, Dirtbombs and Gories leader Mick Collins and longtime Detroit musician Paul Randolph. Original Alice Cooper band bassist Dennis Dunaway is also working on potential material for the album, and Cooper said earlier this year in a recent interview that he and Seger “will be working on something on this new album.”

Breadcrumbs will feature covers of Bob Seger’s “East Side Story,” the MC5’s “Sister Anne,” Suzi Quatro’s “Your Mama Won’t Like Me” and Mitch Ryder & the Detroit Wheels’ “Devil With a Blue Dress On,” plus a rework of “Detroit City” from 2003’s The Eyes of Alice Cooper album titled “Detroit City 2020,” and a new song co-written with Wayne Kramer, “Go Man Go.”

Despite being pretty busy as of late, Cooper isn’t sure when the next tour will come. “You can imagine what the scheduling is like, we’re all so busy,” he says. “We have to go, like, a year in advance and say, ‘OK, next April and May, nobody plan anything and we’ll do South America and we’ll do Australia and we’ll do the United States.’ That’s how far ahead we have to plan things.”

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