Steven Tyler To Record Country Album With Big Machine Records

Updated:

March 22, 2015 8:11 pm

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It seems as if Steven Tyler has officially gone solo.

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In the coming weeks, the Aerosmith singer is rumored to sign with Scott Borchetta’s Big Machine Records (Taylor Swift, Rascal Flatts) and is already underway on writing and recording a country album here in Nashville.

Anyone following Tyler and his recent moves shouldn’t be all too surprised about the potential career shift. During a Twitter Q&A last October he hinted at the idea of coming to Nashville and settling in for a lengthy stay.

“I’m going down to Nashville January, February, March, April to write and see what we get,” Tyler said in the Q&A. “You know, doing an album is kind of like panning for gold. You get so much sand and dirt until you find a little nugget and you work on the nugget…you know I grew up with The Everly Brothers. Even ‘Cryin’s’ got a little [twang]. Of course I had to do it more Aerosmith-ish which was rocked out. There’s just a piece of me that loves country so much, and I’m not sure what kind of country that is, but it’s got the 5th harmony…it’s just those kind of melodies that are just so so good.”

No official release information is available yet.