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GLENN HUGHES On Long-Awaited 'HUGHES/THRALL 2' Album: Don't Hold Your Breath

June 3, 2009

Although work on the much-anticipated sophomore album from HUGHES/THRALL — featuring Glenn Hughes and Pat Thrall — began nearly a decade ago, the CD has yet to see the light of day, and according to Hughes, the blame lies squarely on the shoulders of Thrall.

Hughes says in a statement: "I am finally putting the HUGHES/THRALL 2 album behind me. It was 10 years ago that we started this production. It was never completed. I want the legacy of the only album we made to live on.

"My own productions are done on a time scale that are pre-planned on a schedule that works for me, as I grow as an artist. Usually the writing, pre-production, recording, mixing and mastering, takes no longer than six months. Pat wanted to produce HUGHES/THRALL 2 alone.

"10 years to finish an album?

"Let's please put this behind us as we move forward with our lives."

In a 2006 interview with Rockdetector.com, Glenn Hughes was asked why it has taken so long for a follow-up HUGHES/THRALL effort to appear. "In truth, we were both [Hughes and guitarist Pat Thrall] fucked up," Glenn replied. "Let's not try to hide that fact. We made an awesome funk rock record but we just could not follow it up. It's always been there though, people still keep talking about it so obviously, at some point, it would come up again. I finally got around to meeting up with Pat again in New York during 2000 and we started writing for a new HUGHES/THRALL album. When the 9/11 disaster happened though in 2001 I just couldn't go to New York after that. Finally Pat relocated to Las Vegas and since then we've been writing again, meeting up and it's happening. We've got 13 incredible, late night, funky, organic jazz rock songs ready. It's very diverse, very intense."

"Hughes Thrall", acknowledged as one of the finest albums of Hughes' career, was released on Boulevard Records in 1982, toppping the U.S. import charts before being issued in the U.K. on Epic in January 1983. A remastered edition of the album came out in November 2006.

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