![]() The group, which has expanded to sometimes eight members, signed with Universal Records, which updated the band's 2005 album, "Graffiti the World," with three new songs for release earlier this year. "He was real cool about it - but I still had to pay $2,500!" Boone laughs. Boone says the executive eventually called him to say he could have the name back. "Brooks got a solo deal and recorded an album, and I went back to work slinging hot wings and writing songs," says Boone.īoone returned to touring, but could not use the name Rehab even though he had come up with the name, because an Epic executive had copyrighted the title and owned it. Keep on with Rehab and find somebody else to fill my shoes. I came home and called up Dave McPherson (the band's champion at Epic) and told him, 'I can't do this anymore. "Staying through Christmas, doing something I didn't want to do for people who called my album garbage? I had kids. When label executives told the group to stay in Los Angeles during Christmas to work on the album, Boone bolted. Compounded with that, Boone was having some substance-abuse problems. He says the label was very enthusiastic about the new material for the album, but he didn't like it. You try to create something and they call it garbage, it gets to you." "We had already recorded an album called 'Cuz We Can,' which they had called garbage. "We were working on our second album in L.A., and I didn't like the direction it was going," says Boone. However, there was trouble when the group attempted to record a follow-up. The group signed with Epic Records and that song, and others from the disc, became popular on college rock and alternative rock radio. ![]() I just had to sit around and imagine what had happened!" All you had to do was fill in the details. With the hook he gave you meat and potatoes. "Cody Chestnutt, who is a tremendous talent in himself, walked in and had a guitar and said, 'I have this terrific idea for a song.' He played us the hook, and we just wrote the song within 15 minutes. Boone says "Bartender Song" came about while he and Brooks were sitting in the studio. Rehab began as just Boone and Jason Brooks, who combined talents in the late 1990s. ? Look at Johnny Cash doing a Nine Inch Nails song." All you've got to do is write good songs. "People make their own mixes on their iPods. "People like good songs, no matter what," he says from his home in Warner Robins, Ga. Rehab leader Danny Boone Alexander (who now uses Boone as his last name) says categories make no difference to him. has recorded it with the group.Ī song on any given album can lean to rap, rock, country or even electronica. As unlikely as it sounds, the song has buoyed the group since 2000, when it first appeared on the band's album "Southern Discomfort." It has since surfaced in one form or another on two subsequent releases from the band, and even Hank Williams Jr. Rehab's most famous song, "Bartender Song (Sittin' at a Bar)," is a graphic tale of violence that combines hip-hop, country and Southern rock.
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