Casandra’s Crossing, the musical alliance between guitar legend George Lynch and powerhouse singer Casandra Carson, issue their new ‘Wicked Woman’ single, taken from the recently released studio album, Garden Of Earthly Delights, available from Frontiers Music Srl.
Emerging from the ’80s hard rock scene with the L.A.-based group Dokken, George Lynch went on to become a world-renowned guitarist. Aside from Dokken, he has also enjoyed great success with Lynch Mob, as a solo artist and a wealth of collaborative efforts over the decades.
Those collaborations include but are not limited to, KXM with Doug Pinnick (King’s X) and Ray Luzier (Korn), The End Machine with Jeff Pilson (Foreigner, ex-Dokken), Mick Brown (ex-Dokken), and Girish Pradhan (Girish & The Chronicles), Sweet & Lynch with Michael Sweet (Stryper), Ultraphonix with Corey Glover (Living Colour), and The Banishment with Joe Haze.
Casandra Carson is best known for her work fronting the Midwestern hard rock band Paralandra. Founded in 2013 with a strong DIY ethic, Paralandra found themselves on radio charts and festival stages in no time and by 2018 had a record deal, national tours supporting the likes of Saliva, Tantric, and Dokken, and even found themselves performing aboard the KISS Kruise! The band remains active and their most recent studio album, produced by the legendary Michael ‘Elvis’ Beskette, came out in April of this year.
‘Wicked Woman’ encapsulates all the names I’ve been called by my exes at one time or another,” said Carson about the new single. “When I got the track from George, I was getting these tough, bad-bitch vibes, so when I started writing the lyrics, I took all that ammo, ramped it up to 100, and created this wicked woman character who embodied all of those names plus a few more.”
There’s also a video accompanying the single, about which she said: “It was really hard getting a video done for this project at first, just due to our touring schedules this past year, but all the stars finally aligned on the Final Ride Tour. Adrienne Beacco (Exceleration Media) was on the road with Paralandra during the tour, so we were able to put our heads together and create the concept for this video in just a couple of weeks, and then shot it at the Newton Theatre in NJ one day, just a couple of hours before soundcheck.
“It’s always a pleasure working with Adrienne; she always gets my vision, and I have to give major props to George for showing up and relearning the song at half speed for this shoot. But beyond all the details, I’m just thrilled that Casandra’s Crossing now has a music video to go along with the album.”
About Garden Of Earthly Delights, she said: “It’s a major milestone and accomplishment, not only to have collaborated with a legend like George Lynch, but to have created music that I’m so proud of.
“I wrote the lyrics and melodies of each song without any expectations in mind, other than to serve the music George had written. In doing so, the lyrics are eclectic yet relatable. I truly feel like there’s a song in here for everyone, no matter what genre of music you’re into, and I’m extremely proud of that.”
Tracks featured on the album are: ‘Stranger’, ‘Impatient’, ‘Closer To Heaven’, ‘Ring Me Around’, ‘Devastating Times’, ‘Waltzing Nites’, ‘Just Business’, ‘Mind Eraser’, ‘Run For Your Life’, ‘Wicked Woman’ and ‘Kneel Before You’ – Garden Of Earthly Delights can be ordered here.
