Open Your Ears: Ian Hunter

Ian Hunter has been in music forever, but I doubt anyone has heard of him. His flagship project was Mott The Hoople, but I doubt anyone has heard of it. He backed up a lot of good bands and wrote songs that many people covered. The one everyone will be most familiar with is "Cleveland Rocks", the theme song to the Drew Carey Show. He wrote it, the Presidents of the United States of America covered it, and they used their version as the theme song. He's also got musical connections to tons of other famous names in music, but I won't bore you, read his bio on Wikipedia if you want to know more. He has a new album called Shrunken Heads, and the first single is really good in my opinion. It sounds a lot like something you would here on Bob Dylan's Modern Times. It's called "Words (Big Mouth)". Take a listen.



(Notice, this song was also added to the Open Your Ears playlist at the top right-hand corner of the page.)