Name: Traces - Alternate Versions and Sketches
Brand: Steve Perry

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FAN00750

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Format Music US

Limited edition

Release date

2020-12-04

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Supplier US

Unive­rsal

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Sales:8.875

UPC / Barcode

888072174771

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Artist

Steve Perry

Genre US

60s & 70s

Label US

Fantasy

Traces - Alternate Versions &amp; Sketches is an acoustic version of the 2018 album Traces by Steve Perry. The former Journey singer announced the LP during a conversation with Rolling Stone.

“It’s eight songs from the Traces record done acoustically and I’m really proud of it,” he explained. “It’s called Traces Alternate Versions and Sketches. I cut the vinyl in Abbey Road. I’m really pleased with the sonics, and I’m really pleased with the simplicity of the song and the lyric and the chords, which is basically what it’s stripped down to.”

Traces marked a comeback for the singer, who largely withdrew from the public spotlight in 1998 following a hip injury that led to his eventual separation from Journey. His return two decades later was spurred by tragedy, following the death of girlfriend Kelly Nash in 2012.

“I made a promise to her that I would not go back into hibernation,” Perry revealed at the time. “She asked that I wouldn’t do that because she felt it would make everything for naught. Those were her words. I kept that promise.”

Perry's previous solo album was 1994’s For the Love of Strange Medicine, meaning 24 years passed between LPs of original material.

While Traces Alternate Versions and Sketches won’t feature any new songs, Perry noted that further releases are on the way. “The acoustic Traces is going to close the Traces chapter,” he explained. “Then I’m opening up another chapter next year at some point.”

Traces - Alternate Versions and Sketches

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