“Zzyzx Rd.” by Stone Sour

"Zzyzx Rd." comes from Come What(ever) May, Stone Sour's second album, out in 2006, and in 2007 it went to radio as the record's fifth single, a two-track promo that never hit the shops. Corey Taylor wrote the words as a love letter to his wife, thanking her for pulling him through his fight with alcohol and thoughts of suicide, a subject he keeps circling across the album. Before the track list was even settled, he was telling Revolver it was unlike anything he had written before.

Rami Jaffee sits in on piano, Taylor adds extra guitar, and Nick Raskulinecz produced for Roadrunner. The title points to a real place: a 4.5-mile, partly paved road through the Mojave Desert off Interstate 15, about 105 miles southwest of Las Vegas.

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