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Last month, MOLLY HATCHET released a new song called “Firing Line”, marking the first original tune from the southern rockers in 13 years. The track was recorded at the famous Abbey Road Studios in London, United Kingdom. It was produced by MOLLY HATCHET guitarist Bobby Ingram, engineered by Chris Bolster (Paul McCartney, FOO FIGHTERS, Elton John) and mastered by Lucy Launder and Alex Wharton (Paul McCartney, THE ROLLING STONES).

“Firing Line” is the first single from MOLLY HATCHET‘s recently completed new studio album, due at the end of the first quarter or beginning of the second quarter of 2024 via SPV/Steamhammer.

In a new interview with Rock Bottom, Ingram stated about MOLLY HATCHET‘s upcoming follow-up to 2010’s “Justice” LP (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): “We just got our of Abbey Road Studios in London. We were in the actual BEATLES studio. And Chris Bolster — I was with him two days ago — Chris Bolster engineering it, and he’s done Paul McCartney and Elton John. He just finished Eric Clapton‘s stuff. So what an honor it is for us to work with a wonderful engineer like that. And I’m lucky to produce it. I’m still producing after all these years, so that’s a good thing.”

Regarding his decision to take on the producing duties himself, Bobby said: ‘Well, my first producer I learned so much from, it was Glyn Johns. That was when I was in my early 20s down at Compass Point Studios in Nassau, Bahamas. Glyn Johns did LED ZEPPELIN‘s first record, he did THE [ROLLING] STONES, he did THE WHO, he did THE BEATLES‘ ‘Let It Be’ and THE EAGLES all the way from the beginning up through ‘Desperado’. And I was a 23-, 24-year-old kid down in the Bahamas and I’m working with this legendary producer. And I stuck to him like — man, I was sitting with him right every single… every time he hit the ‘record’ button every day, every minute, [I was] learning as much as I could about how to be an arranger-producer and an engineer-producer. And then I did a solo project with Karl Richardson, and he had the second-biggest selling album of all time, ‘Saturday Night Fever’. And he also did the Clapton ‘461 Ocean Boulevard’ [album]. So working with some really great producers, and I’ve been fortunate and blessed to be able to do that, I’ve picked up a lot along the way. And I figure, yeah, I could get other producers, but why not do it myself? Because I know what the band’s supposed to sound like. I know the direction. I don’t have to tell anybody how it’s supposed to be, because I’m hearing it in my head. And it just makes things so much easier. But to work with a fabulous engineer at Abbey Road Studios, studio number two, where THE BEATLES did 95 percent of their hits, man, you wouldn’t believe it. The first time we were playing in there, we were getting chills all over. Oh, yeah, it was just fantastic.”