Video Premiere: William Shatner Talks About Putting a Very Animated Spin on ‘I Put a Spell on You’ for New Blues Album
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variety.comChris Willman Music WriterWilliam Shatner hit upon his share of musical genres in the 2000s and 2010s, as he resumed the long-dormant musical part of his career, which began with 1968’s “The Transformed Man.” In recent years, he’s gone country and punk, done an album of famous space songs and a Jewish oratorio, and covered the Christmas beat.
Now he’s found his final frontier — or at least his next final frontier — with “The Blues,” an album that unites his patented speak-singing style with shredding turns from guitarists including Albert Lee, Steve Cropper, Ritchie Blackmore, Sonny Landreth, Brad Paisley, Jeff “Skunk” Baxter and Pat Travers.It’s the last of these joining him on “I Put a Spell on You,” Shatner’s cover of the Screamin’ Jay.
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