Hear Duff McKagan’s New Solo Track ‘This Is the Song’

Duff McKagan has launched a brand new solo observe titled “This Is the Song,” his first solo tour since 2019.

You can watch the music video beneath.

The notes at the backside of the country-tinged ballad’s YouTube web page asks followers to “take action for mental health causes via Propeller,” a website that “exists to inspire activism and help build movements for change.”

McKagan has launched solo music sporadically over the course of his profession, starting with 1993’s Believe in Me and persevering with with a trio of albums credited to Loaded: 2001’s Dark Days, 2009’s Sick and 2011’s The Taking. He launched his official sophomore solo album, the Shooter Jennings-produced Tenderness, in 2019. The country-rock LP served as a follow-up to McKagan’s 2015 guide How to Be a Man (And Other Illusions) and was impressed by his travels with a reunited Guns N’ Roses.

Watch Duff McKagan Perform ‘This is the Song’

“The heartbreak, anger, fear, confusion and divide I have experienced over the last two and a half years of traveling this globe of ours coerced these words into songs that tell my truth, and one that I hope will spread and help us all,” McKagan stated at the time. “I do this for my daughters … I do this for my love of where I grew up … I do this because I truly feel it must be done and said right now.”

Tenderness discovered McKagan tackling heavy subjects similar to mass shootings (“Parkland”), sexual assault (“Last September”) and opioid habit (“Falling Down,” “Cold Outside”). Despite the dour material, McKagan — and his music — remained hopeful.

“I know humanity will overcome,” he informed Classic Rock in 2019. “There’s always a backlash. We’ve had to be serious since 9/11, and I think there’s going to be a point like when punk rock and disco both came out at the same time. People were done with Vietnam War and with the recessive ’70s and gas lines and union strikes, and at some point people just said, ‘Fuck this. Let’s party! Bring it on!'”