Udo Dirkschneider announces new covers album ‘My Way’

UDO DIRKSCHNEIDER has announced a new album!

Titled My Way, the upcoming album from the former ACCEPT vocalist is a new covers album, and is scheduled to be released in April this year, via Atomic Fire Records.

The upcoming album’s 17 cover versions of the very songs that have influenced the musician and singer the most. All kinds of classics from music history are among them – including those that you might not expect from Udo. Not only does a very personal story lie behind each of the tracks, but also a sometimes surprising arrangement that, despite the very individual implementation, lives and breathes Udo’s manuscript throughout. “Now when I hear the song, I remember the time when, as a very young Udo, I’d go out to light up the town and lived all the stories that can only be experienced late at night in the clubs.” Here, ALEX HARVEY’s Faith Healer allows the artist to feel those days of an era long past. The fact that Nutbush City Limits is also on the album reveals a secret rarely told until now. “What hardly anyone knows so far: I was a huge fan of IKE and TINA TURNER, and especially Tina’s voice, once. We always covered this song during ACCEPT rehearsals in the early days. It was one of the mainstays of our ACCEPT rehearsal repertoire for years. Regrettably, there is no recording of it.” With WOLFSHEIM’s Kein Zurück, Udo sang in German for the first time in his career. “I immediately felt like the words understood me. It seemed to me that the lyrics were telling the story of my career, of my highs and lows and all the good and bad experiences that life has. There simply is ‘no going back’ for those who choose to live as a musician.”

Alongside the announcement of the new covers album, you can view both the track list and artwork for the upcoming album below:

Track List: 

1. Faith Healer (ALEX HARVEY)
2. Fire (CRAZY WORLD OF ARTHUR BROWN)
3. Sympathy (URIAH HEEP)
4. Nutbush City Limits (TINA TURNER)
5. Man On The Silver Mountain (RAINBOW)
6. Hell Raiser (THE SWEET)
7. No Class (MOTÖRHEAD)
8. Rock And Roll (LED ZEPPELIN)
9. The Stroke (BILLY SQUIER)
10. Paint It Black (THE ROLLING STONES)
11. He’s A Woman, She’s A Man (THE SCORPIONS)
12. T.N.T. (AC/DC)
13. Jealousy (FRANKIE MILLER)
14. Hell Bent For Leather (JUDAS PRIEST)
15. We Will Rock You (QUEEN)
16. Kein Zurück (WOLFSHEIM)
17. My Way (FRANK SINATRA)

My Way is set for release on April 22nd via Atomic Fire Records. Pre-orders will be available soon.

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