After a career spent anchoring some of the most illustrious bands in rock (including the last 13 years with Def Leppard), guitarist Vivian Campbell found himself stealing away to smoky blues clubs around his adopted home of Los Angeles whenever he wasn¹t on tour. Enamored with the roots of his rock, Campbell decided it was time for a long-overdue history lesson in the music that he had come to make a career of. The Irish axeman journeyed all the way back to the music of the deep south, reliving the early days of the blues and emerged with 'Two Sides of If,' a collection of songs Campbell fell in love with as he taught himself to live, breathe and love the blues.

Admittedly, this trek is one undertaken by many guitarists, but none who can claim to have helped influenced Metallica (with his first band), helped launch Ronnie James Dio¹s post-Sabbath career at just 19, and went on to spend over a decade with one of the biggest rock bands in the world.

In stores on September 27th (Sanctuary Records), the album is a heartfelt labor of love from Campbell; a thank you note to the great bluesmen of the past for laying the groundwork for upstarts like himself.

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