“I’m so engaged in the culture war, it’s good to shut up and jam every once in a while,” Ted Nugent says.
Ted Nugent calls Everything Matters from his new ShutUp&Jam! album a “grooving, classic R&B song.”
The song’s sepia-toned video, premiering at USA TODAY, gives fans a good, long look at the guitarist’s beloved Gibson Byrdland and his rhythm section, bassist Greg Smith and drummer Greg Brown. Derek St. Holmes, whose history with Nugent goes back to ’70s hits like Stranglehold and Cat Scratch Fever, returns to sing lead.
Nugent says the song and its groove were inspired by R&B greats like Wilson Pickett, James Brown and Otis Redding, as well as Detroit-based rockers Mitch Ryder and Wayne Cochran.
“It’s honky-tonk in yet another bastardized version of the original basis of every cool song in the world from Soul Man to Hold On, I’m Coming to Dock of the Bay to Mustang Sally and every Motown and James Brown hit,” he says. “They all have honky-tonk, one way or the other. And, once again, I have found a new way to play it.”
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