August 20, 2025 • 10 mins
Commenting on the new album, Glenn stated: “Songwriting is deeply personal to me, and l generally write and record when I have something to say. It’s been nine years since I recorded my last solo album, “Resonate”. There have been recordings and collaborations with other artists, since 2016”.“When writing “Chosen”, I went back to my life drawing board, writing about the human condition, love, hope, faith and acceptance. I write about how I feel on the inside and not externally. My life is lived from within, in the present moment. It’s an album of soul food, and I’ve never been so grateful, right here, on planet earth. Music is the healer!”, he added.Vocalist/bass guitarist/songwriter Glenn Hughes is a true original. No other rock musician has carved such a distinctive style blending the finest elements of hard rock, soul and funk. That astonishing voice is his calling card. He's known as a singer's singer. Stevie Wonder once called Glenn Hughes his favorite white singer. After a nine years hiatus as a solo artist, Glenn Hughes is back with “Chosen”, his brand-new solo record: an album which presents Glenn in his most hard rockin’ fashion. An explosive record that offers Glenn Hughes at its absolute best with a state-of-the-art album, both from a songwriting and production standpoint. A truly captivating return!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello and good morning.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
Good Morne.
Speaker 1 (00:03):
What's happening, sir?
Speaker 2 (00:05):
You are my friend?
Speaker 1 (00:06):
No, I've heard the music you are happening because I'm
gonna thank you. I'm gonna start it off with this
because there's a there's a heartbeat to this song into
the fade, and right away it makes me want to
be activated, to get on the road, to run, to
go play. Were you thinking of that heartbeat at that pace?
Speaker 2 (00:24):
You know, that's a song I really enjoyed writing. It's
an uplifting song about finding one so and look, I'm
really happy with this album, really happy.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
So that that that idea of finding oneself. I've always
thought of that if I find that person, well won't
I continue the you know, the discovery because I found him.
Now there's got to be another part of me.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
I think in general, as humans, spiritual beings, we're all
looking for ourselves. We spent most of our lives doing that,
and if we're looky, we will find out who we
really are.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
This whole entire album, I mean, I feel like that
you're speaking directly with us. The way it's written. I
mean there's I feel the love, the hope, the acceptance,
and that to me is authenticity. It shows that you
are truly connected to those of us that are on
this side of receiving it right.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
I do write songs for us. I don't specifically write
songs all about myself. I write about how we are
doing as human beings spiritual beings in this present moment.
It's all about how we can have better lights and
better existence.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
Now when you talk about being in the present, because
you're speaking my street when you say that, because I
have a show on iHeartRadio that's one hundred percent based
on stream thinking and being here in this moment of now.
When you're writing, do you stream think? In other words,
when it comes to you, it's like it hit me
and you didn't have to think about it.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
Look, I've been doing this a long time. When I
got clean and sober in the early nineties, I changed
everything and I started to write about the present moment.
I've been putting in Buddhism for quite some time, and
the idea of the we only have this moment, not
yesterday and not tomorrow. If I can stay here talking
(02:17):
with you about and feeling that moment, I'm all good.
Speaker 1 (02:21):
Well, I gotta share a quote with you that that's
going to be on today's iHeartRadio and that quote is
reaching into the invisible and pulling from it an artifact
of the future.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
Yes, yeah, that's what I truly believe in. You know,
as we go about our daily way, you know, living
on this beautiful planet.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
Don't you see your music as being an open door
for those that are wandering?
Speaker 2 (02:47):
I do. I only write about us. I write about
the spiritual condition, you know. I don't write fiction any longer,
and again I can help myself. I'm just writing stuff
for us.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
Yeah, what was that journey like to go in that direction?
Because I've been a daily writer for thirty two years
and I know the transitions that we go through as
creative people. How did you make that transition that didn't
just happen overnight?
Speaker 2 (03:16):
No, like again, everything changed for me in nineteen ninety
one where I decided that I'd had enough of that
kind of way of life and I wanted to look,
we can we can all begin again. It doesn't matter
what age you are, and you can all begin again.
(03:38):
And for me, beginning again was very, very beautiful.
Speaker 1 (03:42):
Please do not move. There's more with the legendary Glenn
Hughes coming up next. Glenn Hughes. His new song is
titled Into the Fade. The album is called Chosen. Let's
get back to that conversation. Your new album comes out
in September. It's called Chosen. I like that because my pastor,
Stephen Ferdi, is all about one word, one word, and
(04:03):
I see that your word is chosen. That's a powerful word.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
Yeah, yeah, it chosen to me beings free, freedom.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
Mm hm to get there? How do you you You
sound like you're meditating, because I mean, the thing is
is that I do meditate, and and that that when
you speak of the freedom like that, it's like, Oh,
he goes where we all should be going.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
I think the lessons I've learned in life by the
way I embraced everything, the good, the bad, the weird,
the wonderful. If I can allow it to happen rather
than force it to happen, I'm all good.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
So do you believe in the philosophy learn to Love
all living things?
Speaker 2 (04:52):
One hundred percent?
Speaker 1 (04:55):
You're taking this out on the road, Will you play
it on the stage as the album plays out when
we're listening to it.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
No, because I'm going to do a Best Dog Glenn
tour featuring a lot of songs I've written. There'll be
a few songs from Chosen, of course, and there'll be
a lot of songs from my other solo albums.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
Does each city get a different show in the way
that you may, you know, because you know how technology
is nowadays. Okay, well we're gonna we're gonna go into
Prague this time around, and or we're gonna try this
in Denver, Colorado. Or is it I mean, is it
the same show? Or do you do you put it around?
Who is going to be in that that live audience?
Speaker 2 (05:29):
Wow? Good, good question. Sometimes it may change. There's would
be some markets where I feel certain songs will go
better and some markets what they want. But genuinely, it's
normally all the same.
Speaker 1 (05:44):
One of the things that I've learned about watching you
up on that stage is the fact that you don't
you're not bothered by that live audience. I mean, it's
almost like you're sitting there saying, come over here, let's
talk about something that's going on in our life and
where maybe we can walk into, you know, toward better piece.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
I never think about it. I'm up there, my audientesiti
is I just love my crowd. You know, I have
a specific fan base, and they've been with me for
a long time, and I'm very grateful that I'm still
producing for them.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
Many many, many moons ago, I wrote that I really
wanted a song between you and Stevie Wonder to come
out because I believe that the two of you share
such an emotion when it comes to lyrics.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
Well, he's my mentor. I've known Stevie for fifty one years. Wow.
We became friends in seventy four and we get together
once in a while, and you know, I just love
Stevie's voice, as we all do, but I love Steve
the way Stevie lives. He's a great family man and
great father, and it's been my mentor from the beginning.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
How are you preparing yourself for this tour?
Speaker 2 (06:52):
Oh? Wow, I'll be ad some free time. I've been
a harm for about five weeks and I've been, you know,
getting ready to do this long run of show here,
So I'm adding some free time. I've been doing lots
of interviews for this album, but I'm mentally getting ready.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
Yeah, yeah, Because I mean, when you go from town
to town to town, do you get any freedom at
all to go out and at least taste some of
the food.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
I try to. Yeah, it's normally two shows on travel day,
two shows on travel day, So for me, it's when
I get a chance to go out, I will for sure.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
Yeah, are you going to film any of this? Because
I have become so addicted to watching these reality shows
with people out on the road. You know, a day
in the life of Glenn Hughes, that would be such
a fascinating documentary.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
Well, you know, I do film, not all the time,
but I do film from time to time, and there
I've been talk about doing something like this. At some point.
I want to do some kind of a documentary. A
bird book which did really well, So the next thing
for me is maybe a film.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
Yeah, because I want to hear your voice when you're
talking about different experiences and stuff, because that pulls us
into that that real appeal to as to why you
are still on the road and we are still following.
Speaker 2 (08:12):
Right. Yeah, I mean I've been doing it a long time.
I can't really say how much longer I want to
do it. I want to do it until I don't
want to do it, But then again, I always will
want to do it. It's the shows that have no
problem for me, it's the constant traveling. It's kind of crazy.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
So are you like me in the way that people
ask me, Okay, you've been in radio for forty six years,
when are you getting out. I'm not going back there
to tell that fourteen year old that it's over. Hell no,
I'm not going back there.
Speaker 2 (08:45):
Man. It's like, you know, the word retirement is scary.
I mean, I think if you're really involved as an artist,
you can't really retire. I mean, yeah, I'll slow down
for sure, but I don't like the word retirement.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
Yeah. Let's talk about that album cover. I feel like
I've been there. Did you take this photograph? Because I mean,
it's just something that's very familiar.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
No, I didn't. I I was in Copenhagen doing the
album and we found a spot to film by the
ocean that and for me, it spoke to me about
what the album is about. You know, it's it's still
in this and it's quiet, and it's it's surreal and
it's calm and in the rock world, you know, it's
(09:35):
a very heavy, intense world, you know, we live in.
But normally there's a picture of me on the copa
but I didn't want to do that this time. I thought,
let's find a serene spot.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
Well, you've got two spiritual energies there, the rocks, because
they say that the greatest storytellers on the planet are rocks.
And then you've got the water, which carries everything forward.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
Correct.
Speaker 1 (09:55):
It's such an agree I cannot wait to get my
hands on the full album because it's it is an experience,
and that's one thing to have. You you've always delivered
to us.
Speaker 2 (10:05):
Thank you, man.
Speaker 1 (10:06):
So where can people go to get more information about
everything that you've been doing it? More importantly, I know
you've got to have merch because people that are on
tour have got merchandise and we like to buy it.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
Glenn Hughes dot com or Glenn Hughes online on Instagram
and Glenn He's on Facebook and Glenn on the score
Us on Twitter. You can get a lot of information
from those sites. Wow.
Speaker 1 (10:30):
Well you've got to come back to this show anytime
in the future, mister Glenn, because man, I love your
story and I love where your heart is right now.
It's with peace.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
Thank you mean a lot to me. Thank you kindly.
Speaker 1 (10:40):
Will you be brilliant today? Okay?
Speaker 2 (10:41):
Sir, thank you so much.
Hello and good morning.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
Good Morne.
Speaker 1 (00:03):
What's happening, sir?
Speaker 2 (00:05):
You are my friend?
Speaker 1 (00:06):
No, I've heard the music you are happening because I'm
gonna thank you. I'm gonna start it off with this
because there's a there's a heartbeat to this song into
the fade, and right away it makes me want to
be activated, to get on the road, to run, to
go play. Were you thinking of that heartbeat at that pace?
Speaker 2 (00:24):
You know, that's a song I really enjoyed writing. It's
an uplifting song about finding one so and look, I'm
really happy with this album, really happy.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
So that that that idea of finding oneself. I've always
thought of that if I find that person, well won't
I continue the you know, the discovery because I found him.
Now there's got to be another part of me.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
I think in general, as humans, spiritual beings, we're all
looking for ourselves. We spent most of our lives doing that,
and if we're looky, we will find out who we
really are.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
This whole entire album, I mean, I feel like that
you're speaking directly with us. The way it's written. I
mean there's I feel the love, the hope, the acceptance,
and that to me is authenticity. It shows that you
are truly connected to those of us that are on
this side of receiving it right.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
I do write songs for us. I don't specifically write
songs all about myself. I write about how we are
doing as human beings spiritual beings in this present moment.
It's all about how we can have better lights and
better existence.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
Now when you talk about being in the present, because
you're speaking my street when you say that, because I
have a show on iHeartRadio that's one hundred percent based
on stream thinking and being here in this moment of now.
When you're writing, do you stream think? In other words,
when it comes to you, it's like it hit me
and you didn't have to think about it.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
Look, I've been doing this a long time. When I
got clean and sober in the early nineties, I changed
everything and I started to write about the present moment.
I've been putting in Buddhism for quite some time, and
the idea of the we only have this moment, not
yesterday and not tomorrow. If I can stay here talking
(02:17):
with you about and feeling that moment, I'm all good.
Speaker 1 (02:21):
Well, I gotta share a quote with you that that's
going to be on today's iHeartRadio and that quote is
reaching into the invisible and pulling from it an artifact
of the future.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
Yes, yeah, that's what I truly believe in. You know,
as we go about our daily way, you know, living
on this beautiful planet.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
Don't you see your music as being an open door
for those that are wandering?
Speaker 2 (02:47):
I do. I only write about us. I write about
the spiritual condition, you know. I don't write fiction any longer,
and again I can help myself. I'm just writing stuff
for us.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
Yeah, what was that journey like to go in that direction?
Because I've been a daily writer for thirty two years
and I know the transitions that we go through as
creative people. How did you make that transition that didn't
just happen overnight?
Speaker 2 (03:16):
No, like again, everything changed for me in nineteen ninety
one where I decided that I'd had enough of that
kind of way of life and I wanted to look,
we can we can all begin again. It doesn't matter
what age you are, and you can all begin again.
(03:38):
And for me, beginning again was very, very beautiful.
Speaker 1 (03:42):
Please do not move. There's more with the legendary Glenn
Hughes coming up next. Glenn Hughes. His new song is
titled Into the Fade. The album is called Chosen. Let's
get back to that conversation. Your new album comes out
in September. It's called Chosen. I like that because my pastor,
Stephen Ferdi, is all about one word, one word, and
(04:03):
I see that your word is chosen. That's a powerful word.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
Yeah, yeah, it chosen to me beings free, freedom.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
Mm hm to get there? How do you you You
sound like you're meditating, because I mean, the thing is
is that I do meditate, and and that that when
you speak of the freedom like that, it's like, Oh,
he goes where we all should be going.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
I think the lessons I've learned in life by the
way I embraced everything, the good, the bad, the weird,
the wonderful. If I can allow it to happen rather
than force it to happen, I'm all good.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
So do you believe in the philosophy learn to Love
all living things?
Speaker 2 (04:52):
One hundred percent?
Speaker 1 (04:55):
You're taking this out on the road, Will you play
it on the stage as the album plays out when
we're listening to it.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
No, because I'm going to do a Best Dog Glenn
tour featuring a lot of songs I've written. There'll be
a few songs from Chosen, of course, and there'll be
a lot of songs from my other solo albums.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
Does each city get a different show in the way
that you may, you know, because you know how technology
is nowadays. Okay, well we're gonna we're gonna go into
Prague this time around, and or we're gonna try this
in Denver, Colorado. Or is it I mean, is it
the same show? Or do you do you put it around?
Who is going to be in that that live audience?
Speaker 2 (05:29):
Wow? Good, good question. Sometimes it may change. There's would
be some markets where I feel certain songs will go
better and some markets what they want. But genuinely, it's
normally all the same.
Speaker 1 (05:44):
One of the things that I've learned about watching you
up on that stage is the fact that you don't
you're not bothered by that live audience. I mean, it's
almost like you're sitting there saying, come over here, let's
talk about something that's going on in our life and
where maybe we can walk into, you know, toward better piece.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
I never think about it. I'm up there, my audientesiti
is I just love my crowd. You know, I have
a specific fan base, and they've been with me for
a long time, and I'm very grateful that I'm still
producing for them.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
Many many, many moons ago, I wrote that I really
wanted a song between you and Stevie Wonder to come
out because I believe that the two of you share
such an emotion when it comes to lyrics.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
Well, he's my mentor. I've known Stevie for fifty one years. Wow.
We became friends in seventy four and we get together
once in a while, and you know, I just love
Stevie's voice, as we all do, but I love Steve
the way Stevie lives. He's a great family man and
great father, and it's been my mentor from the beginning.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
How are you preparing yourself for this tour?
Speaker 2 (06:52):
Oh? Wow, I'll be ad some free time. I've been
a harm for about five weeks and I've been, you know,
getting ready to do this long run of show here,
So I'm adding some free time. I've been doing lots
of interviews for this album, but I'm mentally getting ready.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
Yeah, yeah, Because I mean, when you go from town
to town to town, do you get any freedom at
all to go out and at least taste some of
the food.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
I try to. Yeah, it's normally two shows on travel day,
two shows on travel day, So for me, it's when
I get a chance to go out, I will for sure.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
Yeah, are you going to film any of this? Because
I have become so addicted to watching these reality shows
with people out on the road. You know, a day
in the life of Glenn Hughes, that would be such
a fascinating documentary.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
Well, you know, I do film, not all the time,
but I do film from time to time, and there
I've been talk about doing something like this. At some point.
I want to do some kind of a documentary. A
bird book which did really well, So the next thing
for me is maybe a film.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
Yeah, because I want to hear your voice when you're
talking about different experiences and stuff, because that pulls us
into that that real appeal to as to why you
are still on the road and we are still following.
Speaker 2 (08:12):
Right. Yeah, I mean I've been doing it a long time.
I can't really say how much longer I want to
do it. I want to do it until I don't
want to do it, But then again, I always will
want to do it. It's the shows that have no
problem for me, it's the constant traveling. It's kind of crazy.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
So are you like me in the way that people
ask me, Okay, you've been in radio for forty six years,
when are you getting out. I'm not going back there
to tell that fourteen year old that it's over. Hell no,
I'm not going back there.
Speaker 2 (08:45):
Man. It's like, you know, the word retirement is scary.
I mean, I think if you're really involved as an artist,
you can't really retire. I mean, yeah, I'll slow down
for sure, but I don't like the word retirement.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
Yeah. Let's talk about that album cover. I feel like
I've been there. Did you take this photograph? Because I mean,
it's just something that's very familiar.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
No, I didn't. I I was in Copenhagen doing the
album and we found a spot to film by the
ocean that and for me, it spoke to me about
what the album is about. You know, it's it's still
in this and it's quiet, and it's it's surreal and
it's calm and in the rock world, you know, it's
(09:35):
a very heavy, intense world, you know, we live in.
But normally there's a picture of me on the copa
but I didn't want to do that this time. I thought,
let's find a serene spot.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
Well, you've got two spiritual energies there, the rocks, because
they say that the greatest storytellers on the planet are rocks.
And then you've got the water, which carries everything forward.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
Correct.
Speaker 1 (09:55):
It's such an agree I cannot wait to get my
hands on the full album because it's it is an experience,
and that's one thing to have. You you've always delivered
to us.
Speaker 2 (10:05):
Thank you, man.
Speaker 1 (10:06):
So where can people go to get more information about
everything that you've been doing it? More importantly, I know
you've got to have merch because people that are on
tour have got merchandise and we like to buy it.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
Glenn Hughes dot com or Glenn Hughes online on Instagram
and Glenn He's on Facebook and Glenn on the score
Us on Twitter. You can get a lot of information
from those sites. Wow.
Speaker 1 (10:30):
Well you've got to come back to this show anytime
in the future, mister Glenn, because man, I love your
story and I love where your heart is right now.
It's with peace.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
Thank you mean a lot to me. Thank you kindly.
Speaker 1 (10:40):
Will you be brilliant today? Okay?
Speaker 2 (10:41):
Sir, thank you so much.
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