ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: You got a polarizing reaction when you announced you were making a country record.
STEVEN TYLER: I never should have said that.
Thats so fing country!
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Do you listen to much of the genre?
Eric Church is defining the new country.
[But] bro country?
I dont like it.
I like when someone takes a fed-up risk.
You recently relocated to Nashville.
Are you getting along with the new neighbors?
I was writing at [songwriter] Hillary Lindseys house and I said, I love Alison Krauss!
She goes, Alison Krauss?
She lives two or three houses away.
So I walked over and played her two songs.
She said, Youre onto something good.
Whats your home like there?
Bring the sticks on!
Youre covering Janis Joplins Piece of My Heart on the album.
I did it so fing good.
I loved that she drank on stagenobody did that back then!
No one would come out with a bottle of Southern Comfort and a cigarette.
I loved her rings and earrings and the s in her hair.
And she lived a quick, fast life.
Youve had struggles with addiction yourself.
Do stories like hers make you think about your own choices?
Whenever someone dies, like Prince, I think to myself, They died so I could live.
I am just as much an addict as he was[but] none of his people spoke up.
Besides doing a country album, anything else on your bucket list?
I would love to be a producer on a show likeVinyl.
And I think I might have a career doing movies.
I want to have an affair with a producer and hopefully someone in the movie.
[Laughs] Dont they all do that?
Tune in toTylers performanceJune 24 on NBC.
