Bret Michaels Announces New Album and Single

Bret Michaels is teaming up with a country artist named Luke Laird for a cross-over song called "Girls on Bars." The song is from the upcoming album True Grit. You can hear "Girls on Bars" below. It's pretty brutal to be honest. Like the Skid Row reunion that will never happen, a new - proper - Poison album clearly isn't going to happen either.

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— Bret Michaels (@bretmichaels) April 8, 2015

Comments

[The Cheap Seats]

Him: Before Garth, country music acts basically stood there and played and sang. Brooks brought an arena rock show to country music. He has said that KISS was huge influence on that. I'm not a hardcore country purist, but if you ask the people that are, they blame Garth Brooks and Shania Twain setting country music down the road to where it is today. I'm sure I totally buy that theory since people like Kenny Rogers and Dolly Parton were doing pop country way back in the 70s.

I was never a huge Brooks fan, but I do like quite a few of his songs.

There is still some good country music being made, just don't turn on mainstream radio and expect hear any of it.

[Dj]

I am no longer going to trash stuff I don't really like, but in all honesty, I am not a fan of any of his solo career. He should just stick with Poison and do a summer tour every other year. They're a fun live band, I wouldn't mind seeing them this summer.

[Metalboy!]

Brett Michaels and Garth Brooks are guilty of the same crime... Appeasing the masses in the most mundane way... LCD ... Lowest Common Denominator ... Give us REAL & AUTHENTIC Country that's memorable... Not DISPOSABLE!!! Something that's transformative so the genre isn't stuck in this Quasi-Country Rock Mode.

[fletch]

Bret Michaels brought it tonight at Penn's Peak in Jim Thorpe. I wasn't expecting much, stayed relatively sober so I could drive home, brought my son (hence being sober(ish), and as we played dueling (air) guitars with each other infront of the stage, he asked me, "Is that the guy from poison?"

Don't need nothing, but...

peace, all.

[Him]

Thanks, The Cheap Seats (and Rita). I appreciate the inside perspective(s). I can see how some saw that as the death knell and others saw it as a shot of excitement. Being the outsider (even then), I admired the fact that he injected something "different" into the mix. At the time he was popular, you would have had to tie me down to make me listen to him. But it seemed like people were enjoying themselves and that we was too.

And, Metalboy!, I don't think all bombast is affectation, that all crowd pleasing music and stage-work is LCD. Come on, Def Leppard at their best exemplified that fact. KISS at least began with that sort of mission even if they seem to have caved into it in recent years. You can mention tons of bands: Alice Cooper, WASP, Aerosmith, etc. At one time or another, they brought the hooks, and songs, and the show. Even the mighty Priest make the gimmick of repetition seem like a fresh take on a well-worn playbook.

Glad to hear the show was good, Fletch.