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Authentic SALIVA singer Josey Scott says that he’s planning to launch some new solo music in addition to reworked variations of a number 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 may 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).
Over the weekend, Scott uploaded a video message to his YouTube channel by which he formally introduced his return to the music trade. He stated: “What’s up, everyone? That is Josey Scott, ex-lead singer of SALIVA. I am so glad to be with you guys once more after ten years. I am making my means again into the music trade. I look so ahead to seeing each one in every of you on the market.
“You may comply with me on Instagram and Fb @JoseyScott, on Twitter @JoseyScottMusic. And for information, tour dates and merch, please enroll at JoseyScott.com. And JoseyScottMusic is my YouTube channel. Please subscribe and hit the notification bell so you will get all that information that’s coming. There’s some nice issues coming for you guys. I’ve bought some new music, I’ve bought the classics that I am gonna redo and put some piano and strings, and every kind of excellent issues coming.
“I can not wait to see you guys. I’ve missed you a lot. I really like you to the followers. I’ll see you quickly!”
In October 2019, Scott introduced that he was returning to SALIVA, explaining on the time that he wished 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 bought 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 anticipated to characteristic 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 by way of Twitter. They wrote: “It’s Occurring. 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 stated 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.
“In the event you wanna do one thing, do it,” Wayne stated. “However you may’t simply speak about 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 finished early sufficient to tug it off.
“Yeah, there was some fan response, saying, ‘Wow, yeah, that is perhaps cool.’ But it surely did not get sufficient steam to take off,” he defined. “All of the preliminary stuff sort of bought arrange, and it simply did not jell.
“It simply did not make sense to cease what we [the current lineup of SALIVA] had been doing and try this, since you’ve bought momentum, we have got a groove going, the band’s tight stay. 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 folks & make u new music, & that fell via, however, I consider all the things occurs for a motive. There are not 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 massive hit, “Your Illness”.
Final Might, SALIVA celebrated the twentieth anniversary of its breakthrough main label debut, “Each Six Seconds”, with a particular venture referred to as “Each Twenty Years”, an EP of traditional songs re-recorded with Amaru.
