Aaron Lewis has toured practically nonstop since appearing in Vegas last December for a multidate engagement. The singer-songwriter, known as frontman for alt-metal quartet Staind, successfully stormed the country music charts with his 2011 EP Town Line and 2012’s The Road. Now he’s preparing to make a major announcement about a move in the studio that could be a game-changer for his solo career and a reaffirmation of his commitment to the music he absorbed growing up. Las Vegas Magazine’s Matt Kelemen spoke to Lewis ahead of his Nov. 15 Golden Nugget gig.

Do you like being on tour all the time, especially since you’ve been in this new phase of your career?

Everybody is fooled into thinking that if you’re a musician and you’ve gotten a record deal and you’ve had success, you’re just set for life. All that really means is while it was going on you spent a lot of money while you were doing it and at the end of the big push of success, most of the time all of us are left with not much of anything. … I can still make a living, and I can still do this and I can still tour. I can still sell out shows and be successful at it. It’s just not what it was, but I have the same bills as I had before. I’m in no different of a situation that anyone else: I’ve gotta work.

It just seems like you don’t get a break for the most part.

I’m about to go into the studio and record another record, and put it out in the beginning of the second quarter next year.

Have you been writing the material on the road?

Yeah, I’ve got seven or eight songs that are ready to go, five of which have already been approved by the record label. There’s a song called “Sinner,” there’s a song called “Northern Redneck.” There’s a song called “That Ain’t Country.” It’s about the lack of country music on country radio. The first verse is “What a sad state of affairs I’m in/’Cause I’m trying to compete where I just don’t fit in/ ’Cause the country, if you call it that, is from off the road/It ain’t country, trust me, ’cause I’m old enough to know.”

It seem like things have really worked out well with this musical direction.

Within the next few weeks, or at least the next month, it’s going to be even more evident and even more apparent as to how well this direction is going with the announcement that will be made.

So you’re being positioned to reach a wider audience, but as far as your music goes are you going to hold on to …

You bet your ass! What I’m doing is now all of a sudden going to be exposed to all of those people desperately missing the country aspect in country music. I’m bringing it back home. Honestly, it could be leading into the most successful time frame of my career.

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