Foo Fighters Prep "In Your Honor"

The Foo Fighters plan to release their fifth album, In Your Honor, in June. The double album -- one disc will be acoustic and the other "rock" -- took a year to record and features twenty tracks.

"It is by far the most ambitious project I have ever had anything to do with in my entire life," frontman Dave Grohl posts on the band's Web site, adding that the final track listing was whittled down from a batch of forty songs. "There are subtleties. There are complexities. There are extremities. There are familiarities. There is orchestration," the somewhat cryptic post continues.

In Your Honor features a diverse batch of guests, including Norah Jones, former Led Zeppelin bassist John Paul Jones and Queens of the Stone Age frontman Josh Homme. "They may seem strange to you," Grohl adds of the cast of characters. "They don't seem strange to me."

He is also planning to get out of the studio and onto the road. "I have a calendar in front of me that is a year long," he says, "fucking packed with tours that will spin us around the globe over and over."

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Song Stories

“All Along the Watchtower”

The Jimi Hendrix Experience | 1968

Jimi Hendrix got hold of Bob Dylan's early John Wesley Harding tapes and in late 1967 recorded a version of "All Along the Watchtower" with the Experience in London. Dissatisfied with that first development, Hendrix brought those tapes with him to New York in early 1968 when he began work on Electric Ladyland. Eddie Kramer, Hendrix's engineer at the time, told Rolling Stone that Hendrix "was still looked upon by his basically white audience as the mammoth black guitar hero. There was a constant fight within him to expand himself." Hendrix's successful take on Dylan's work has long been recognized by the songwriter. "I liked Jimi Hendrix's record of this and ever since he died I've been doing it that way," Dylan wrote in the liner notes to his Biograph box set. "Strange how when I sing it, I always feel it's a tribute to him in some kind of way."

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