![]() ![]() ![]() “Cameron Crowe had already come to us to ask for a song for his movie Singles,” recalls Cantrell. When it came to recording Rooster, the band turned a prior engagement to their advantage. It’s more of a forum to dig deeper.” Alice In Chains had enjoyed some success with their 1990 debut album Facelift and its single Man In The Box, but Rooster was arguably the first song to announce the depth of the band’s talent.Ĭantrell recalls that “it felt like a major achievement for me as a young writer,” and this sentiment was echoed when he played the demo to vocalist Layne Staley, bassist Mike Starr and drummer Sean Kinney. To be honest, I didn’t really sit down intending to do any of that it just kinda came out.īut that’s the great thing about music – sometimes it can reach deeper than you ever would in a conversation with anybody. But on Rooster, I was trying to think about his side of it – what he might have gone through. “I certainly had resentments,” Cantrell notes, “as any young person does in a situation where a parent isn’t around or a family is split.
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