12 Bar Blues by Scott Weiland

12 Bar Blues, Scott Weiland's first solo album, came out on Atlantic in 1998, and if you walked in expecting the Stone Temple Pilots singer to serve up another round of arena grunge, you walked into the wrong room. It's a restless, experimental record that bears little resemblance to anything STP had released, with Weiland chasing moods and textures instead of riffs, and it sounds like a man emptying out his notebooks with nobody around to tell him no. "Barbarella" was the track rock radio grabbed hold of.

Even the sleeve is a nod elsewhere: its design pays homage to John Coltrane's Blue Train. Rhino gave it a limited 25th anniversary vinyl pressing of 7,500 copies for Record Store Day on April 22, 2023.

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