Generation X-Ray Records Announce Release of New Scott Sorry Single, “Black Dog Dancers”
Los Angeles, CA (October 30, 2021) – Generation X-Ray Records is over the harvest moon to announce the release of the new, hard-driving Scott Sorry single, “Black Dog Dancers,” the first new music from the critically acclaimed punk rock troubadour since 2016.
“Black Dog Dancers” is a taut, raw, and melodic ripping-off-of-the-Band-Aid—a punk confessional that interrogates fear, grief, loss, and, ultimately, defiance in the face of Sorry’s life-threatening cancer diagnosis in January 2018.
“When I sat down to write the song, I was having a rough time. My wife and kids were away and I was alone. But for whatever reason, I couldn’t write…I couldn’t write. I felt really shitty. But then I plugged my guitar into an amp and the chords just came out. I immediately got a melody in mind. I looked at the clock and it was seven after midnight, and that became the first line of the song. I wrote and recorded the song from beginning to end in two hours. It just came out of me.”
Formerly of Amen, Sorry and the Sinatras, and legendary British punk-metal hooligans, the Wildhearts, Sorry’s solo material reflects his own Pennsylvania roots. Sorry’s music is rust-belt ragged, a molten fusion of musical influences: The ‘Mats, Sugar, Social D., Gaslight Anthem. If punk rock is about battling the establishment, Scott Sorry’s music looks to battle the establishment within himself. “Black Dog Dancers” is a tune of hard-rocking self-reflection, rueful self-examination, and clenched-fist courage.
On “Black Dog Dancers,” Sorry is backed by the finely-tuned line-up from 2016’s critically lauded lp, When We Were Kings. The foursome behind Sorry are fierce and deceptively virtuosic, a spaghetti western mélange of punk rock gunslingers: longtime bassist Roger Segal, guitarist Andy Watt, drummer LTK, and keyboardist Kris Rodgers. When We Were Kings debuted on the Official UK rock charts at number two. The debut solo album was funded through Pledgemusic, achieving 437% of its initial crowdsource goal.
“Black Dog Dancers” a rousing, defiant, and redemptive reference to the shadowy figure that can haunt us all during bouts with mental illness will be released on all major streaming platforms October 30 and will be released as a split 7”, backed by infectious L.A. punk n rollers, the Hellflowers latest single “Running Through the Fog.”
Generation X-Ray Chief Operating Officer Matt Eskew had this to say about the new Scott Sorry tune:
“We at Gen X-Ray are not only excited to share this amazing song with the world but also we are humbled to be a part of Scott Sorry’s triumphant return.”
