![]() ![]() So, 50 years later, I thought it was time to do it again! And I did the vocal on my 75th birthday!” “This was album number 25 and I sang a song on our first album, “I Had a Dream,” when I was 25. “I always wanted to do a bluesy, jazzy, R&B type thing,” he says. But the elder Agnew has the last word on Surviving the Law with the “You Made Me,” which he wrote and sings himself. There are also songs about good times, romance gone bad and the pandemic (“Waiting for the World to End”). Even when I’m talking to him, I’m not sure who he means! And his ‘Let the Whisky Flow’ is about Scottish nationalism and not trusting the government. But he’s left it obtuse enough to mean something to one person and something else to another. “Lee’s a bit like that – he doesn’t trust anybody!” his father laughingly offers. Like “Strange Days” and “Mind Bomb” which will bring to mind respectively-at least to many-Donald Trump (“ Go ahead and act like a martyr/But you can’t handle the sting”) or organizations like QAnon (“ Generate another lie/Consume the disenfranchised/Every day brings a new fear/And let them hear what they want to hear).” Both were written by Lee Agnew. The current lineup of Agnew, son Lee Agnew (drums), Jimmy Murrison (guitar) and new vocalist Carl Sentance lay down not just the bombastic rockers they’re known for (“Hair of the Dog,” "This Flight Tonight," “Expect No Mercy,” “Bad Boy,” “Razmanaz,” “Holy Roller”), but several tunes that take on a decidedly contemporary slant. The proof is in their new 25th studio record, Surviving the Law (Frontiers Music). Not that the band didn’t just sit on their arses the past two years. ![]() We’ve still got the masks in Scotland and promoters are nervous about putting any shows on. But it’s not like that here in Europe, where they still restrict audience sizes. “I know that there in America it’s almost back to normal. It will be the summer before we get kickstarted,” he says via Zoom from his home in Scotland. And us, we’ve had to put dates up on the website and then take them down all because of the COVID. Record cover “It’s hurt a lot of bands’ 50th anniversaries.
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