Journey keyboardist Jonathan Cain says when he joined the band, he suggested they "write a song that spoke to the fans. 'Don’t Stop Believin’' was a conscious attempt for Steve [Perry] and I to bring them into our song. There’s a lot of small town girls and boys out there wanting to get on to the midnight train to anywhere."
Now Cain says they're at it again, telling Classic Rock magazine they have a new song titled "This Town."
"It’s about the fans. That 50-year relationship we’ve had with them. We wrote it about their loyalty. The hook is: ‘Tonight, it’s all about this town.’"
Asked if they have a new album in the works following 2022's Freedom, he says, "I don’t know yet. It’s so tough out there. We had hoped for better results with Freedom, even though it was cut-and-paste, a bit of an experiment during COVID.
"The COVID song I wrote with [guitarist] Neal [Schon], 'The Way We Used to Be,' was tongue-in-cheek all the way, and we weren’t able to release it in time, so it didn’t get much love. I heard a lot of bad COVID songs -- I mean some really bad ones -- so we needed to do something that was really slick. That’s when I had the idea of two lovers not being about to see one another."
Cain adds that if they can get "This Town" "up to speed" they may debut it on their tour with Def Leppard, which moves today.
Journey, with special guests Def Leppard and The Steve Miller Band, perform August 12th at Globe Life Field in Arlington.
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