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Dirt received critical acclaim, and is considered by many critics and fans alike as the group's best album. In a retrospective review, Steve Huey of AllMusic said "Dirt is Alice in Chains' major artistic statement and the closest they ever came to recording a flat-out masterpiece. It's a primal, sickening howl from the depths of Layne Staley's ...
In 2011, Alice in Chains began work on their fifth studio album, The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here, which was released on May 28, 2013. [14] Alice in Chains' sixth studio album, Rainier Fog, was released on August 24, 2018. [15] As of 2019, Alice in Chains has had 18 Top 10 songs and five No. 1 hits on Billboard ' s Mainstream Rock chart. [16]
The original lineup in a 1988 promo. From left: Jerry Cantrell, Sean Kinney, Mike Starr, Layne Staley. Before the formation of Alice in Chains, Layne Staley, a drummer at the time, [13] [14] landed his first gig as a vocalist when he auditioned to sing for a local glam metal band known as Sleze after receiving some encouragement from his stepbrother Ken Elmer.
A more fleeting supergroup, dubbed ‘Alice Mudgarden,’ convened to record one song for the first acoustic EP by Alice in Chains, 1992’s Sap. “Right Turn” features Soundgarden’s Chris ...
Alice in Chains 4:42 Am I Inside: Cantrell / Staley: Sap (February 4, 1992) November 1991 London Bridge Studio, Seattle (Features guest vocals by Ann Wilson) Alice in Chains / Parashar: 5:09 Music Bank (October 26, 1999) 5:08 The Essential Alice in Chains (September 5, 2006) 5:09 Angry Chair: Staley: Dirt (September 29, 1992) March–May 1992
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Layne Thomas Staley (born Layne Rutherford Staley; August 22, 1967 – April 5, 2002) [2] [3] was an American singer and songwriter who was the original lead vocalist of Alice in Chains, which rose to international fame in the early 1990s as part of Seattle's grunge movement.
The song was written by Alice in Chains guitarist/vocalist Jerry Cantrell for his father, Jerry Cantrell Sr., who served with the U.S. Army during the Vietnam War. "Rooster" was a childhood nickname given to Cantrell Sr. by his great-grandfather, because of his perceived "cocky" attitude and his hair, which used to stick up on top of his head like a rooster's comb.