Courtesy of Blue Coupe

Courtesy of Blue CoupeBlue Coupe, the rock trio featuring original Alice Cooper bassist Dennis Dunaway and founding Blue Oyster Cult members Albert Bouchard and Joe Bouchard, recently released its third studio album, Eleven Even.

Joe Bouchard tells ABC Audio that the band worked more collaboratively on the new record than it did on its first two albums.

“We decided to do this album pretty old school, where we sit in a room and we just hash out the ideas,” he maintains. “So, it was over a year of rehearsals…every week, and we’d see what we come up with. And, you know, get some live feel, the feel of the ’70s.”

Meanwhile, Dunaway explains to ABC Audio what his and the Bouchard brothers’ goal is in writing material for Blue Coupe.

“We want the audience the first time they hear the song, by the last chorus they know what to sing along with,” he notes. “And also, we want the song to feel familiar enough to our styles that Blue Oyster Cult and Alice Cooper audiences expect.”

One example of this can be found in the Dunaway-penned tune “Day After Day (Running Away),” which features a sonic nod to Blue Oyster Cult’s biggest hit, “(Don’t Fear) The Reaper.”

As Dennis recalls, “[When] the idea came across…for the intro [of ‘Day After Day’], I said, ‘Joe, can you come up with a guitar riff that’s kind of like ‘Reaper,’ but not ‘Reaper’?'”

The record features 11 tracks, all but one of which were written or co-written by members of the band. The exception is “D Train,” a twisted look at riding New York City subways, was penned by the late David Roter, who’d co-written the Blue Oyster Cult song “Joan Crawford.”

Find out more about Eleven Even at BlueCoupeBand.com.

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