Sevendust, frontman Lajon Witherspoon points out, "is an electric band." But a decade of warm feelings for "Southside Double-Wide," the Atlanta hard rockers' live acoustic album, planted the seeds for the new "Time Travelers & Bonfires" studio set.
"People liked ('Southside Double-Wide') so much and have asked for so many years for us to do it again that we had a meeting and said, 'Hmm, why don't we do an acoustic album and see what happens," Witherspoon tells Billboard about the PledgeMusic-funded album-DVD combo, which comes out April 15. But the presence of electric guitars and a full-fledged production make "Time Travelers...," which the group recorded during January at Architekt Studios in Butler, N.J., more than a standard unplugged endeavor.
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