![]() Can you imagine traveling back in time and telling your younger self you’d be promoting the 25th anniversary of your debut during a pandemic?Įd Roland: I mean, it may sound egotistical - it’s not, but it’s confidence - yeah I do. With a deluxe anniversary edition of the album out, along with first-time vinyl issues of it and “Hints,” Roland spoke to Variety from his home in Atlanta - 30 miles north of the Stockbridge house he grew up in, where his father was a Baptist minister, and reflected on the heady waters that fed “Collective Soul,” recording a new album in quarantine, and the lifelong influence of his Georgia neighbor, Elton John. “Collective Soul” came out on March 14, 1995, and yielded two hit singles (“December,” “The World I Know”) and the best album sales of their career. Roland wrote the band’s “true debut,” the self-titled album with a blue cover, while they were on the road. ![]() With rock heaven’s light suddenly shining down, the band - which comprised guitarists Ross Childress and Dean Roland (Ed’s brother), Will Turpin (bass) and Shane Evans (percussion) - signed with Atlantic and went on a national arena tour, opening for Aerosmith. They weren’t even a band at the time that first album, “Hints, Allegations and Things Left Unsaid” was just a collection of demos performed by bandleader Ed Roland, who was 31 and about to hang up his dreams of chart glory. Their breakout occurred in 1993 with the sudden success of “Shine,” a fuzzy, quasi-spiritual anthem that pinged from college radio airwaves to the top of the mainstream rock chart. No one really knew which record store bin to put Collective Soul in when the Atlanta band broke onto the scene - they were labeled everything from “bubblegum grunge” to southern blues-rock to neo-’60s rock.
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