Crowbar has truly become a family affair for frontman/guitarist Kirk Windstein and his wife Robin. While it’s no secret that Robin has been handling social media, merchandise, U.S. tour management and even holiday greeting cards for the outfit, it turns out she’s also been contributing to the songwriting process as well. Windstein told Rollingstone.com of her involvement in the band’s newly released album, “The Serpent Only Lies“:
“It’s not like we sit down together like, you know, Ashford and Simpson. But it’s cool because she’ll just leave her notebook laying around and I’ll be writing lyrics and I’ll be like, ‘Fuck, I can’t think of anything. …’ And I’ll grab her stuff and go through it and go, ‘Wow, this is cool.’ Actually, the title for [‘Serpent Only Lies‘ opener] ‘Falling While Rising,’ that was a one-liner that she had, and a lot of those lyrics are hers. She’s got a lot of great ideas; it’ll spark my creativity.”
Windstein also opened up on his goals for the band and his love of seventies pop music:
“I’m just a sucker for those melodic Seventies radio hits. It’s pop, but ‘pop’ means popular: It was popular because it was good. In extreme metal, a lot of the vocals are atonal; there’s no melody. But for a band like Crowbar, we’re not trying to do that; we’re trying to be a 2016 version of a Led Zeppelin or a Black Sabbath.”
For more from Windstein on the album, head to Rollingstone.com.
