Original SALIVA Singer JOSEY SCOTT Is Back In The Studio

Authentic SALIVA singer Josey Scott has returned to the studio to document some new solo music in addition to reworked variations of a number of of the band’s traditional songs.

Scott left SALIVA on the finish of 2011 after 15 years with the group, reportedly to pursue a solo Christian music profession. He was shortly changed by Bobby Amaru, who could be heard on SALIVA‘s final 4 releases: “In It To Win It” (2013), “Rise Up” (2014), “Love, Lies & Remedy” (2016) and “10 Lives” (2018).

On Friday (April 22), Scott shared an Instagram video of him within the studio recording what seems to be a brand new model of the SALIVA traditional “Your Illness”, and he included the next message: “After ten lengthy years, of hibernation, and actually studying, & experiencing, what’s most necessary in life, after studying methods to be husband, and father, after elevating my youngsters, and being of service to my neighborhood, studying methods to actually assist my fellow human beings, after experiencing the enjoyment of watching my youngsters be born, and holding them for the primary time, and after my household and I, going by means of absolutely the most horrific tragedy I might have ever identified, or imagined, dropping my valuable son Cody to covid in Could of 2021, after studying that a very powerful asset on this life will not be cash, or fame, however time, after studying all these valuable, laborious, and heartbreaking life classes, I really feel it’s lastly time for me to come back again to my love of making music. I am so excited to present you guys just a little style of what I have been as much as within the studio, and I’ll see you all quickly on the street.”

In October 2019, Scott introduced that he was returning to SALIVA, explaining on the time that he needed to get collectively together with his former bandmates and “write a badass document.” Lower than a yr and a half later, in March 2021, SALIVA guitarist Wayne Swinny poured chilly water on these plans, saying that the reunion with the singer “by no means actually acquired off the bottom.”

Final month, it was introduced that SALIVA will reunite with Scott for a one-off look at this yr’s Blue Ridge Rock Competition, set to happen September 8-11 on the Virginia Worldwide Raceway in Alton, Virginia. The set is predicted to function each Josey and Bobby performing tracks from their respective eras of the band.

SALIVA‘s reunion with Scott at Blue Ridge was initially introduced on March 18 by competition organizers through Twitter. They wrote: “It’s Taking place. For years it’s has been extremely rumored and demanded, now it lastly takes place this September.” Lower than two weeks later, Scott shared the announcement on Twitter for the primary time and included a easy two-word remark: “LETS GO!!!!!!” When one fan requested him, “Are u critical???”, he responded: “Sure!”

When Swinny spoke to WRIF about SALIVA‘s failed reunion with Scott, he mentioned that although there have been some preliminary discussions about Josey‘s return to the group, there was no follow-up to make sure that the plan was executed.

“Should you wanna do one thing, do it,” Wayne mentioned. “However you’ll be able to’t simply discuss it and have it magically occur. There’s work, there’s planning, there’s stuff that goes into it, and none of that stuff was carried out early sufficient to drag it off.

“Yeah, there was some fan response, saying, ‘Wow, yeah, that could be cool.’ But it surely did not get sufficient steam to take off,” he defined. “All of the preliminary stuff type of acquired arrange, and it simply did not jell.

“It simply did not make sense to cease what we [the current lineup of SALIVA] have been doing and do this, since you’ve acquired momentum, we have got a groove going, the band’s tight dwell. I did not really feel like we must always give that up or give {that a} relaxation.”

Final December, Josey took to his Twitter to write down: “I would like 2 apologize 2 my followers as a result of I assumed I used to be gonna reunite w/sure individuals & make u new music, & that fell by means of, however, I imagine every thing occurs for a motive. There aren’t any coincidences. A blessing in disguise. Now it is simply u, & me, how intimate is that? #SV2022”.

SALIVA launched six albums with Scott and tasted platinum success and a Grammy nomination for its first huge hit, “Your Illness”.

Final Could, SALIVA celebrated the twentieth anniversary of its breakthrough main label debut, “Each Six Seconds”, with a particular challenge referred to as “Each Twenty Years”, an EP of traditional songs re-recorded with Amaru.