Credit: Alicia Wyman
Credit: Alicia Wyman
Bad Company has a variety of shows lined up this year, but frontman Paul Rodgers has revealed that the band’s also working on material for a potential new studio album.
Rodgers tells RockBandReviews.com that Bad Company will only play about 20 dates in 2019, noting, “We’re going to pull back a little bit so that we can spend more time in the studio [and] do a little recording.”
He adds, “I’d like to create some new music. That’s my focus right now. We’re in the studio, just kicking things around with a few guys and seeing what we’ve got.”
Bad Company hasn’t released an album of original songs since 1996’s Stories Told & Untold, while the last studio effort by the group featuring Rodgers was 1982’s Rough Diamonds. Paul did appear on the 2002 Bad Company live album In Concert: Merchants of Cool, which boasted a pair of new studio tracks.
Rodgers also gave an update about the health of founding Bad Company guitarist Mick Ralphs, who suffered a stroke following the band’s 2016 U.K. tour.
“[H]e’s now hospitalized,” Paul told RockBandReviews.com. “We’re trying to take care of him from a distance. It’s a lot. His family are involved a lot in taking care of him. He’s doing as well as can be expected.”
Bad Company’s current lineup is rounded out by founding drummer Simon Kirke, ex-Heart guitarist Howard Leese, and bassist Todd Ronning.
As for touring plans, the band’s 2019 itinerary includes some headlining shows, as well as slots opening for ZZ Top and Lynyrd Skynyrd.
Here are all of Bad Company’s confirmed 2019 U.S. shows, all of them headlining gigs unless otherwise noted:
2/22 — Hollywood, FL, Hard Rock Live at the Event Center
3/23 — Welch, MN, Treasure Island Resort & Casino
5/17 — Dallas, TX, Dos Equis Pavilion*
5/18 — The Woodlands, TX, The Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion*
5/19 — Austin, TX, Austin360 Amphitheater*
6/7 — Lincoln, CA, Thunder Valley Casino Resort
6/8 — Pala, CA, Pala Casino Spa & Resort
7/26 — Ridgefield, WA, Sunlight Supply Amphitheater+
7/27 — Auburn, WA, White River Amphitheatre+
8/16 — Las Vegas, NV, T-Mobile Arena+
8/21 — Syracuse, NY, New York State Fair’s Chevrolet Music Festival
9/20 — West Valley City, UT, USANA Amphitheatre+
9/21 — Denver, CO, Fiddler’s Green
* = with ZZ Top, Cheap Trick.
+ = with Lynyrd Skynyrd.
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